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Which author won four Pulitzer Prizes? Which author accidentally shot his wife?

Want to learn more about the lives of the beat poets? Or do you want to show off your knowledge of the Welsh literary world? Then this is the place to do it.
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61 Author, Author!
I just love to read, and here are some questions about my favourite authors.
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10 Q
ecnalubma
May 25 06
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62 Last Poet Standing
We all love poems. But do we know when great poets lived? Or when they died? Let see if you can guess, for each quartet of poets, which one was the last to depart.
Difficult
10 Q
zordy
Nov 24 10
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63 Romanticism and Critical Theory
This is a quiz about the Romantics and some basic theory stuff that I'm currently revising, I'll give you a quotation and you simply have to choose the person who wrote it. The theory is all mixed up with the Romantics :)
Difficult
10 Q
Angelic101
May 14 01
249 plays
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Some sample questions from this category:

* 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?


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