Interesting Facts About Famous Writers

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1. Which female writer was the first woman registered to vote in Concord, New Hampshire? Emily Dicknson Agatha Christie Louisa May Alcott Anne Bradstreet

2. What was George Eliot's real name? Georgiana Evans George Evans Elliot George Mary Ann Evans

3. Which author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946? Thomas Hardy Hermann Hesse Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck

4. Did Stephen Crane get wounded in the Civil War, as did his hero in "The Red Badge of Courage"? Yes No

5. Which writer lived and traveled with his lover for almost thirty years before marrying her? James Joyce Bret Harte Mark Twain D.H. Lawrence

6. Which writer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Frost Charles Darwin Ernest Hemingway

7. Which writer was abandoned as a child? Mary Shelly Alexandre Dumas John Steinbeck Lucy Maud Montgomery

8. James Fenimore Cooper's father founded a town. True False

9. O. Henry was convicted and went to prison for manslaughter. True False

10. Which writer was once a freight train hopping hobo, arrested for vagrancy in Niagara Falls? Aldous Huxley F. Scott Fitzgerald E.M. Forster Jack London