There's No Place Like Home! Trivia Quiz

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Many, if not most, of his stories are set in his home state. Some of his novels with Maine settings include "Salem's Lot" (1975), "The Body" (1982), and "Pet Seminary" (1983). His mother raised Stephen and his brother as a single parent, eking out a living much of the time.

After he became successful, the town of Durham, Maine, tried to give him a Key to the City, but his memory of being so poor in his youth there drove him to decline it.

Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902, the son of the county treasurer and a schoolteacher. Though he spent some time in New York, Steinbeck spent most of his life in California, much of it on the Monterey Peninsula, which serves as the setting for many of his most famous works, including "Cannery Row" (1945), "Sweet Thursday" (1954)" and "Tortilla Flat" (1935).

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927, the son of a pharmacist. He was very close with his grandparents. He once indicated that Aracataca provided "the raw material" for his work, with a mix of "reality and nostalgia." Many of his works, including his novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1969) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985) were set in Colombia.

Agatha Christie was born in the town of Torquay in Devon, England. If you are a Christie fan, you may wish to visit her hometown. You could visit Princess Gardens, a setting in "The ABC Murders" (1936) and the Torquay Museum, which holds her manuscripts, photos, and ephemera related to Christie stories and adaptations. The town also hosts an annual Agatha Christie Festival with lectures and writing competitions.

The novels "Three Act Tragedy" (1935), "Evil Under the Sun," (1941), and "And Then There Were None" (1939) were also set in or off the coast of Devon.

Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 to British citizens living in Mumbai, where his father was principal of an arts school. He wrote about a happy childhood in India, which ended when he and his sister were sent back to England for their schooling. At 17, he was happy to sail back to Southeast Asia and began writing prolifically from then on.

Many of Kipling's stories were set in or about India, including "Kidnapped" (1887), "A Germ-Destroyer" (1887), and "Cupid's Arrows" (1888).

Katherine Mansfield was born in 1888 to a prominent family in Wellington. She moved to study in London, where she changed plans: instead of being a cellist, she became writer. At age 29, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She moved to France in the hope of recovering, but she passed away just a few years later.

Her story "Prelude" (1918) alludes to the happy memories she had from her early days in Wellington. The stories published in her 1922 collection set in Wellington included "The Garden Party", "At the Bay", and "The Doll's House."

Haruki Murakami was born in 1949 in Kyoto, a culturally-rich and historically-important city on the island of Honshu. Both of his parents taught Japanese literature. The settings for his stories include Tokyo, Hokkaido, Greek islands, and Finland. Some of his noteworthy works include "Norwegian Wood" (1987), "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" (1994), and "1Q84" (2009).

Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, in 1930. At just age 28, he wrote "Things Fall Apart" (1958), which in part is about the Igbo people from his hometown. He wrote the book in English, he reported, because colonial schools in Nigeria had made the written version of his native language too limited. Achebe was a highly lauded writer, winning the Man Booker International Prize in 2007. He passed away in Boston, as he was on the faculty of Brown at the time, but was buried in his home town of Ogidi.

Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario, in 1931, where her father was a mink farmer and later a turkey farmer. Many of her stories are set in small Canadian townships like Wingham. After publishing "Lives of Girls and Women" (1971), "The Love of a Good Woman," (1988), and "No Love Lost" (2003), among many other works, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

Leo Tolstoy was born in Tula, Russia, in 1828, to a prominent noble family, as his father was a Count and his mother a Princess. He had a fairly privileged life until he served as an officer in the Crimean War; he was forever changed by the bloodshed he witnessed.

His writings often cover war, inequality, poverty, and injustice, which you will find in "War and Peace" (1869) and "Anna Karenina" (1878).