* What crusading writer ran for Governor of California in 1934, thirty years after he had become famous with a book exposing abuses in the meatpacking industry?
* What writer first became famous with 'The Naked and the Dead', his World War II novel, and later ran for Mayor of New York in 1969, with Jimmy Breslin as his running mate?
* What Oklahoma town did the Joad family emigrate from in Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
* In Frederick Exley's autobiographical novel 'A Fan's Notes', what team was the author fanatically devoted to?
* Who accidentally killed his wife while trying to shoot a glass off her head?
* Samuel Clemens started using the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' when he was 27. Where did that phrase come from?
* James Michener's last TV interview was about what?
* I wrote The Little Foxes. Who am I?
* It Was The Best Of Times started out one of my most famous novels. Who am I?
* I wrote many novels about the culture in New Orleans. Who am I?
* I was an Irish postal worker. Who am I?
* I created the character of Becky Sharpe. Who am I?
* I wrote These Happy Golden Years. Who am I?
* I wrote A Season in Purgatory. Who am I?
* I created the character of Ashley Wilkes. Who am I?
* I created the characters of the Bennett Family. Who am I?
* I wrote mainly about the working class in the North of England. Who am I?
* This wildly creative writer married his 13 year old cousin, before ultimately succumbing to poverty and alcoholism at a young age
* This writer also died at a very young age, brought about by pneumonia on a trip to the Northwest
* 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')