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1 Someday I'll Find the Write Job!
A look at some great authors and their unlikely careers/background before they were famous. (Mainly 19th and early 20th centuries).
Easy
10 Q
skumma
Sep 19 09
387 plays
2 Authors' Initials 2
This authors' initials quiz is harder than the first, so I've given you a little help here and there. If you get them all you're a literature genius.... or you've looked them up! Just the last name in the answers.
Average
10 Q
minch
Jul 05 00
3597 plays
3 Famous Authors Best Known by their Initials
Do you know what the 'J.K.' stands for in J.K.Rowling? How many other authors' initials are unknown to you? Try this quiz and find out. All authors are well known.
Average
10 Q
miss g
Nov 25 03
1605 plays
4 Authors' Initials
Some authors are generally known by their initials and last name. You are given their full first names. Give their last name. Start with a capital!
Tough
10 Q
minch
Jun 29 00
3372 plays
5 Given Names of Authors
You are given the penname, give the real name of the author.
Average
10 Q
finlady
Feb 19 00
3597 plays
6 Name These Children's Authors
With homage to Minch's quiz called "Authors' Initials." I give you a children's author's first two (or three) names. You type in the writer's surname. For example, if the clue is "Joanne Kathleen," you type "Rowling."
Average
10 Q
robynraymer
Jul 14 03
918 plays
7 Authors Behind Initials
Guys seem to like to hide behind initialled first names. Sometimes we end up knowing the initials but no longer what first names were behind them. Have a try.Is J.R.R. Tolkien : John Ruben Romuald T. No, it's .. . Well hadn't you better try the quiz?
Tough
10 Q
flem-ish
May 15 01
1056 plays
8 Literary Anagrams - Not Too Tough
You should get at least some of these - give it a try!
Difficult
10 Q
robert362
Jan 14 01
990 plays
9 Author's Pseudonyms
Quite a few authors write under other names. I will list the author's real name and you pick out the pseudonym.
Average
5 Q
mizlentz
May 07 01
2298 plays
10 Authors,also known as....
Famous authors, less famously known as......
Tough
5 Q
Ruma
Sep 12 00
1314 plays
11 Author Anagrams
All of these anagrams are the names of authors. All are two words - first and last names (except for the last one).
Difficult
10 Q
robert362
Dec 06 00
570 plays
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Last Updated Nov 21 09 5:47 AM

Some sample questions from this category:

* What is O. Henry's given name?
* Who doesn't know Agatha Christie? Her books featuring detectives Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tuppence and Tommy Beresford and Harley Quin, are famous. Do you know that she also tried her hand at gothic romances under this nom de plume?
* Ed McBain wrote the gripping series of police detective novels about the detectives of the fictional 87th precinct, and others about Matthew Hope .Few people know that he is also the writer named:
* Victoria Holt is famous with gothic romance fans.Her well-known novels include 'Bride of Pendorric', 'On the Night of the Seventh Moon', and 'Shadow of the Lynx'. She also wrote novels based on the lives of famous kings and queens, under the pen name of:
* What first names hide behind : L.P. Hartley?


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