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Did you do your summer reading this year? Let's see how well you can identify these authors given just three of their book titles. Take this quiz now to test your book smarts!
Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; and A Tale of Two Cities
Mark Twain
Harper Lee
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was a British writer born on February 7, 1812. His final resting place is in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Jane Austen
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The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise; and Tender is the Night
Tennessee Williams
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was named after his second cousin three times removed on his father's side, Francis Scott Key - who wrote the lyrics for "The Star-Spangled Banner."
John steinbeck
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
Jeffrey Archer
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835. He was raised in Hannibal, Missouri which later provided him with the setting for his works Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
C.S. Lewis
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The Green Mile; It; and The Shining
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. His books have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide.
Paulo Coelho
Jin Yong
James Patterson
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The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; and Franny and Zooey
Dan Brown
Mickey Spillane
J.D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City. He was educated at New York University, Ursinus College and Columbia University.
Irving Wallace
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Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; and East of Eden
Ann M. Martin
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was not only a novelist and short story writer, but he also served as a war correspondent. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 and a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
EL James
Andrew Neiderman
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The Pit and the Pendulum; The Fall of the House of Usher; and The Tell-Tale Heart
Arthur Hailey
Clive Cussler
Debbie Macomber
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. He is best known for his poetry and short stories. He died at the young age of 40 - his cause of death remains a mystery to this day.
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Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; and Something Wicked This Way Comes
Richard Scarry
Ken Follett
Astrid Lindgren
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury died at the age of 91 after a long, successful writing career. He was the winner of: American Academy of Arts and Letters (1954); Daytime Emmy Award (1994); National Medal of Arts (2004); and Pulitzer Prize (2007).
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A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; and For Whom the Bell Tolls
J.K. Rowling
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was married 4 times and had three children: Jack, Patrick and Gregory.
Leo Tolstoy
Clive Cussler
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Catch-22; Something Happened; and Good as Gold
Alexander Pushkin
Louis L'Amour
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He spent much of his life writing satires and black comedy. Catch-22 is his best-known work.
Robert Ludlum
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The Hunger Games; The Underland Chronicles; and Year of the Jungle
Ian Fleming
Penny Jordan
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins was born in 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. She received her BA from Indiana University, Bloomington and her MFA at New York University.
Tom Clancy
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Perry Mason; Cool and Lam; and Doug Selby
Stephen King
Edgar Wallace
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner was born in 1889 in Malden, Massachusetts. He is best known for his detective fiction, true crime and travel writings.
Emily Dickinson
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All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; and The Crucible
Mickey Spillane
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller received various awards throughout his career. These included the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1984 Kennedy Center Honors, the 2001 Praemium Imperiale, and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize.
Ann M. Martin
Beatrix Potter
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The House of the Seven Gables; Twice-Told Tales; and The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne hailed from Salem, Massachusetts. Born in 1804, he attended Bowdoin iCollege and died at the age of 59 after a successful writing career.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Robert Ludlum
Jeffrey Archer
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Gone with the Wind; Lost Laysen; and The Big Four
Janet Dailey
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind.
R.L. Stine
Dean Koontz
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Slaughterhouse-Five; Player Piano; and Cat's Cradle
William Shakespeare
Barbara Cartland
Agatha Christie
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born in 1922. Not only was he a writer, he was also a father to 7 children - 3 biological and 4 adopted.
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The Color Purple; The Temple of My Familiar; and The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Irving Wallace
Dr. Seuss
Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944. In 1983, she received not only a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the National Book Award.
Nora Roberts
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Typee; Moby-Dick; and Omoo
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. He was part of the Romanticism literary movement.
Arthur Hailey
Richard Scarry
Zane Grey
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A Boy's Will; The Road Not Taken; and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry as well as the Congressional Gold Medal during his career.
C.S. Lewis
Ann M. Martin
Michael Crichton
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The Outsiders; That Was Then, This Is Now; and Rumble Fish
Jeffrey Archer
Louis L'Amour
S.E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She won a Margaret Edwards Award in 1988.
Jan Berenstain
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On the Road; The Dharma Bums; and Big Sur
Stephen King
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. He died from complications of cirrhosis at the young age of 47 in Florida.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Stan Berenstain
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Sometimes a Great Notion; and Sailor Song
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey was born in 1935 in Colorado. He was educated at the University of Oregon, where he remained until his death in 2001 at the age of 66.
Dr. Seuss
R.L. Stine
Jackie Collins
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Charlotte's Web; Stuart Little; and The Trumpet of the Swan
Dean Koontz
E.B. White
Elwyn Brooks White preferred just E.B. White. He was educated at Cornell University and spent much of his 86 years writing.
Eiichiro Oda
Gilbert Patten
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The Notebook; Message in a Bottle; and A Walk to Remember
Evan Hunter
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks is a novelist, screenwriter and producer from Omaha, Nebraska. His works fall within the genres of romantic fiction and romantic drama.
Anne Rice
Robin Cook
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Beloved; Song of Solomon; and The Bluest Eye
Denise Roberts
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. She is also a winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Patricia Cornwell
James A. Michener
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Walden; Walking; and Life Without Principle
John Creasey
Tom Clancy
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard College and died at the young age of 44.
Eleanor Hibbert
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The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; and Light in August
Robin Cook
William Faulkner
William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in Mississippi. Although he attended the University of Mississippi, he did not achieve his degree there. He did, however, win a Nobel Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, twice!
Lewis Carroll
Denise Robins
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The American; The Turn of the Screw; and The Portrait of a Lady
Edgar Wallace
Jeffrey Archer
Henry James
Henry James was born in 1843 in New York. He acquired British citizenship in 1915 after settling in England as a young man.
Zane Grey
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The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; and The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams III on March 26, 1911. He died at the age of 71 in 1983 after a long career as an American playwright.
Roald Dahl
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
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A Time to Kill; The Client; and The Pelican Brief
Mickey Spillane
Dan Brown
John Grisham
John Grisham is a writer of legal thrillers, crime fiction, as well as baseball and football stories. He was born on February 8, 1955 in Arkansas.
Ken Follett
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; The Ballad of the Sad Café; and The Member of the Wedding
Janet Dailey
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917 in Columbus, Georgia. Her genre was considered Southern Gothic.
Edgar Wallace
Alexander Pushkin
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Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; and Emma
Dean Koontz
Leo Tolstoy
Jin Yong
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in England. She died at the age of 41 on July 18, 1817.
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Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; and The Waves
Nora Roberts
Virginia Woolf
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, on January 25, 1882, Virginia Woolf was a graduate of King's College London. Her husband was Leonard Woolf.
Stephen King
Corin Tellado
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Jane Eyre; Villettel; and Shirley
Harold Robbins
Enid Blyton
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816 and died at the young age of 38 in 1855. She is the eldest of the three Bronte sisters.
Gilbert Patten
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The Handmaid's Tale; Cat's Eye; and Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is not just a novelist, but also a poet, businesswoman and environmental activist. She was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada.
Agatha Christie
Sidney Sheldon
Dr. Seuss
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