1. This wildly creative writer married his 13 year old cousin, before ultimately succumbing to poverty and alcoholism at a young age Theodore Dreiser Sinclair Lewis William Faulkner Edgar Allan Poe

2. This writer also died at a very young age, brought about by pneumonia on a trip to the Northwest Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Henry James Thomas Wolfe

3. This writer had major personal problems; psychologists love him (and Poe). His 'Letter to His Father' is a classic (as is his romance with 'Felice'. Leo Tolstoi Jonathan Swift Erich Maria Remarque Franz Kafka

4. This writer somewhat revolutionized literature with the sexual content of his writing. Hermann Hesse D. H. Lawrence Oscar Wilde Marcel Proust

5. This writer was known largely for his masochism and his wild life style. Paul Verlaine Algernon Charles Swinburne Arthur Rimbaud Charles Baudelaire

6. This writer 'lived the adventure' by exploring Alaska. Ernest Hemingway Jack London Stephen Crane Robert Louis Stevenson

7. This writer died in his 40's in a car accident. Thomas Mann Albert Camus Daniel Defoe Rudyard Kipling

8. This writer sustained a serious injury to his arm during the Battle of Lepanto. Walter Scott Miguel de Cervantes Alexander Dumas Thomas Hardy

9. Which writer did NOT die by drowning? William Inge Hart Crane Virginia Woolf Percy Shelley

10. Which person did NOT suffer from either blindness or deafness? Ludwig Van Beethoven John Milton Goya F Scott Fitzgerald