| Toni Morrison wrote her play "Desdemona" as a response to a production of this Shakespeare play |
<i>Othello</i> |
200 |
February 2, 2021 |
| This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn--they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends |
Waugh |
400 |
February 2, 2021 |
| In 2020 this author of "Dear John" returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with "The Return" |
Nicholas Sparks |
600 |
February 2, 2021 |
| Finally out in 2020, this feminist's "The Inseparables" was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn't like it |
Simone de Beauvoir |
800 |
February 2, 2021 |
| He began "Dombey and Son" during a trip to Switzerland in 1846 |
Charles Dickens |
1000 |
February 2, 2021 |
| This poet wrote passionately about nature, love &, of course, himself |
Whitman |
200 |
January 5, 2016 |
| He's seen here in the 1950s at Oxford, Mississippi, not the other one |
(William) Faulkner |
400 |
January 5, 2016 |
| He's the sometimes bitter Irish-born 18th century satirist seen here |
(Jonathan) Swift |
600 |
January 5, 2016 |
| In 2012 this author received a Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Toni Morrison |
800 |
January 5, 2016 |
| He saw a lot of 20th century innovations coming before anyone else |
H.G. Wells |
1000 |
January 5, 2016 |
| "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the first of his novels to feature his own drawings |
(Kurt) Vonnegut |
200 |
November 14, 2014 |
| This tale spinner continues to delight with more frights to come |
Stephen King |
400 |
November 14, 2014 |
| Fittingly, this last name of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" historical novelist Tracy means "Knight" |
Chevalier |
600 |
November 14, 2014 |
| In 2010, the 25th anniversary of his "Less Than Zero", he published a sequel called "Imperial Bedrooms" |
(Bret Easton) Ellis |
800 |
November 14, 2014 |
| In 1960 she delivered a campus lecture titled "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World" |
Ayn Rand |
1000 |
November 14, 2014 |
| He wove the Book of Revelation into his final Narnia book, "The Last Battle" |
C.S. Lewis |
200 |
July 31, 2013 |
| On June 2, 2003 she awoke from a dream with the characters Edward & Isabella in mind |
Stephenie Meyer |
400 |
July 31, 2013 |
| As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union |
Mark Twain |
600 |
July 31, 2013 |
| Captain George North was the pseudonym this author first used for "Treasure Island" |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
800 |
July 31, 2013 |
| While living in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote plays to support himself |
Washington Irving |
1000 |
July 31, 2013 |
| Walt Whitman began his best-known poem, "I celebrate" this person, "and sing" him too |
myself |
200 |
March 19, 2013 |
| It's no fairy tale: the town of Kassel, Germany has a museum devoted to these brothers |
the Grimm brothers |
400 |
March 19, 2013 |
| Mo Willems is the author of the kids' books about this bird--don't let it drive the bus! |
the pigeon |
600 |
March 19, 2013 |
| "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first volume of her autobiography |
Maya Angelou |
800 |
March 19, 2013 |
| This author's losing entry in a 1948 literary contest became the basis for the movie "2001" |
(Arthur C.) Clarke |
1000 |
March 19, 2013 |
| While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit |
Stephen King |
200 |
May 26, 2011 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894 |
tuberculosis |
400 |
May 26, 2011 |
| Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands |
Sir Walter Scott |
600 |
May 26, 2011 |
| About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary" |
Honoré de Balzac |
800 |
May 26, 2011 |
| His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement |
Ernest J. Gaines |
1000 |
May 26, 2011 |
| During WWII this "Gone with the Wind" author was an American Red Cross volunteer & sold war bonds |
(Margaret) Mitchell |
200 |
December 11, 2007 |
| In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel "Typee" was based on the experience |
Herman Melville |
400 |
December 11, 2007 |
| He wrote his last short story, "The Betrothed", shortly before his play "The Cherry Orchard" |
Chekhov |
600 |
December 11, 2007 |
| After years of writing science fiction, he found his niche with historical novels such as "North and South" |
(John) Jakes |
800 |
December 11, 2007 |
| She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English |
Edith Wharton |
1000 |
December 11, 2007 |
| During the War of 1812 this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of naval commanders |
(Washington) Irving |
200 |
June 4, 2004 |
| His father was also a count; his mother was Princess Volkonskaya |
Leo Tolstoy |
400 |
June 4, 2004 |
| At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge" |
Dickens |
600 |
June 4, 2004 |
| In 1882, at age 16, he found work as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, India |
Kipling |
800 |
June 4, 2004 |
| This author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885 |
Bret Harte |
1000 |
June 4, 2004 |
| "The Hamlet" is 1/3 of his trilogy about the Snopes family |
William Faulkner |
200 |
December 5, 2003 |
| William Styron took 12 years between his previous novel & this one about a female Auschwitz survivor |
<i>Sophie\'s Choice</i> |
400 |
December 5, 2003 |
| His "Hike and the Aeroplane" of 1912 didn't exactly put him on the Main Street of success |
Sinclair Lewis |
600 |
December 5, 2003 |
| The history of this present-day country is the subject of James Michener's 1965 book "The Source |
Israel |
800 |
December 5, 2003 |
| This 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born March 26, 1874 |
Robert Frost |
1000 |
December 5, 2003 |
| In 1852 this "Scarlet Letter" author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
100 |
March 24, 2000 |
| In addition to his "Alice" books, he wrote many math works including "Euclid and His Modern Rivals" |
Lewis Carroll |
200 |
March 24, 2000 |
| Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi" |
Mark Twain |
300 |
March 24, 2000 |
| His "Screwtape Letters" & other works examining Christianity were first heard on the BBC or serialized in newspapers |
C.S. Lewis |
500 |
March 24, 2000 |
| The Samoans gave him the title "Tusitala", or "Teller of Tales" |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
|
March 24, 2000 |
| His "Pickwick Papers" was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz |
Charles Dickens |
100 |
April 14, 1999 |
| After her husband Percy died, this author urged one of Washington Irving's friends to fix them up |
Mary Shelley |
200 |
April 14, 1999 |
| Working in a mental hospital provided background for his "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
Ken Kesey |
300 |
April 14, 1999 |
| His 1965 novel "Desolation Angels" was set just prior to "On the Road" |
Jack Kerouac |
400 |
April 14, 1999 |
| Though christened Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana, he used this first name after arriving in the U.S. in 1872 |
George Santayana |
500 |
April 14, 1999 |
| Her recently-discovered work "Lost Laysen" was published in 1996, the 60th anniv. of "Gone With The Wind" |
Margaret Mitchell |
100 |
March 14, 1997 |
| This "Lolita" author began writing in English while living in France |
Vladimir Nabokov |
200 |
March 14, 1997 |
| This Czech president's play "The Garden Party" was long banned in his homeland |
Vaclav Havel |
300 |
March 14, 1997 |
| Archibald MacLeish based his verse play "J.B." on this book of the Bible |
Job |
400 |
March 14, 1997 |
| British barrister who brought us Rumpole of the Bailey |
John Mortimer |
500 |
March 14, 1997 |
| In 1930, 2 years after divorcing Archibald Christie, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan |
Agatha Christie |
100 |
March 3, 1997 |
| She wrote "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice" & "Northhanger Abbey" between 1795 & 1798 |
Jane Austen |
200 |
March 3, 1997 |
| In 1969 & 1970 this "Andromeda Strain" author was a fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Michael Crichton |
300 |
March 3, 1997 |
| The Burr Oak, Iowa hotel in which this "Little House on the Prairie" author briefly lived is a museum |
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
400 |
March 3, 1997 |
| This author of "She" was an advisor to the British government on agriculture |
H. Rider Haggard |
500 |
March 3, 1997 |
| In the late 1850s Horace Bixby, a riverboat pilot, taught him the skills of the trade |
Mark Twain |
100 |
May 11, 1993 |
| This "Scarlet Letter" author died in 1864 while visiting N.H. with former President Franklin Pierce |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
200 |
May 11, 1993 |
| Though found in this man's desk after his death in 1891, "Billy Budd" remained unpublished until 1924 |
(Herman) Melville |
300 |
May 11, 1993 |
| Her first novel was "Little House in the Big Woods", published in 1932 |
(Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
400 |
May 11, 1993 |
| This author of "Black Beauty" was an invalid who needed a horse-drawn carriage to get around |
(Anna) Sewell |
500 |
May 11, 1993 |
| It was Samuel Clemens' middle name |
Langhorne |
100 |
May 28, 1992 |
| "The American Woman's Home" was co-written by Catharine Beecher & this famous sister |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
200 |
May 28, 1992 |
| While serving as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, he was wounded in Italy |
Hemingway |
300 |
May 28, 1992 |
| A 19th century Boston Unitarian minister, he was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale |
Edward Everett Hale |
400 |
May 28, 1992 |
| Though completed almost 60 years earlier, this English novelist's "Maurice" was not published until 1971 |
E.M. Forster |
500 |
May 28, 1992 |
| He dedicated his novel "1876" to Claire Bloom, not Myra Breckinridge |
Gore Vidal |
100 |
May 1, 1992 |
| After receiving electroshock treatment for depression, he took his own life in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 |
Ernest Hemingway |
200 |
May 1, 1992 |
| This native of Odense was known primarily as a novelist before his 1st fairy tales were published |
Hans Christian Andersen |
300 |
May 1, 1992 |
| Even after her divorce & remarriage, she continued to use the last name of her ex-husband Edwin P. Parker II |
Dorothy Parker |
400 |
May 1, 1992 |
| As a child, he said a "long goodbye" to the U.S. & moved to England with his Irish mother |
(Raymond) Chandler |
500 |
May 1, 1992 |
| Balzac wrote in this, his native language |
French |
100 |
September 23, 1991 |
| This author & her husband moved to a cottage in Kent in 1936 after the kidnapping trial |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
200 |
September 23, 1991 |
| Last name shared by novelists Taylor & Erskine |
Caldwell |
300 |
September 23, 1991 |
| This son of a coal miner set his novel "Women in Love" in a mining town |
D.H. Lawrence |
400 |
September 23, 1991 |
| Even after her divorce and remarriage, she continued to use the name of her ex-husband Edwin P. Parker II |
Dorothy Parker |
500 |
September 23, 1991 |
| As a teenager, she cut her hair, dressed in boyish clothes & called herself William Cather |
Willa Cather |
100 |
June 12, 1989 |
| Playwright Oliver Goldsmith may have written some of the rhymes attributed to this old woman |
Mother Goose |
200 |
June 12, 1989 |
| Shortly before his death, Washington Irving completed a 5-volume biography of this president |
Washington |
300 |
June 12, 1989 |
| Though he was born in Prague, Franz Kafka wrote his novels in this language |
German |
400 |
June 12, 1989 |
| After this philosopher sired Heloise's illegitimate child, her uncle had him emasculated |
Abelard |
500 |
June 12, 1989 |
| He was captured & enslaved by Barbary pirates years before he wrote "Don Quixote" |
Cervantes |
100 |
May 16, 1989 |
| Swiss author Johann Wyss was most famous for this adventure novel |
<i>The Swiss Family Robinson</i> |
200 |
May 16, 1989 |
| Robert K. Massie, who wrote "Nicholas & Alexandra", won a Pulitzer Prize for his book about this czar |
Peter the Great |
300 |
May 16, 1989 |
| Victorian prime minister whose verse play, "The Tragedy of Count Alarcos", appeared in 1839 |
Disraeli |
400 |
May 16, 1989 |
| Elected class poet at Harvard after 6 others declined, he later became 19th c.'s leading transcendentalist |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
500 |
May 16, 1989 |
| While many people shorten their last names, in 1700 this author lengthened his from "Foe" to this |
Daniel Defoe |
100 |
September 26, 1988 |
| Mark Twain said this man "scored 114 offenses against literary art" on just 1 page of "The Deerslayer" |
(James Fenimore) Cooper |
200 |
September 26, 1988 |
| The 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to "Look Homeward: A Life of" this man |
Thomas Wolfe |
300 |
September 26, 1988 |
| He grew prize dahlias & had an enormous aviary at his Hollywood home, "Ozcot" |
(Frank) Baum |
400 |
September 26, 1988 |
| He was the most famous resident of Oxford, Mississippi |
(William) Faulkner |
500 |
September 26, 1988 |
| In 1986, he was the top-selling hard cover nonfiction author in U.S. & starred in the top-rated TV sitcom too |
Bill Cosby |
100 |
June 27, 1988 |
| In 1919, he began subdividing his ranch in Tarzana, California |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
200 |
June 27, 1988 |
| Ironically, the N.C. home of this poet noted for his Lincoln bio was built by a Confederate official |
Carl Sandburg |
300 |
June 27, 1988 |
| An ordained minister, cookbook author & TV chef Jeff Smith is better known as this |
Frugal Gourmet |
400 |
June 27, 1988 |
| Vassar grad Mary McCarthy's novel about 8 Vassar grads in the 1930s & '40s |
<i>The Group</i> |
500 |
June 27, 1988 |
| Though this Phrygian slave may have been phictional, he's still phamous for his phables |
Aesop |
100 |
June 7, 1988 |
| Appropriately, his sister-in-law built him a study that was inspired by a riverboat's pilothouse |
Mark Twain |
200 |
June 7, 1988 |
| Surname shared by authors Robert, Maxwell & Sherwood |
Anderson |
300 |
June 7, 1988 |
| Novelist who conceived his play "Prisoners" while imprisoned in the gulag in the 1950s |
Solzhenitsyn |
400 |
June 7, 1988 |
| He won a Pulitzer Prize 4 years before he became president |
JFK (John F. Kennedy) |
500 |
June 7, 1988 |
| This wild west author of "Riders of the Purple Sage" was a native of Zanesville, Ohio |
Zane Grey |
100 |
March 14, 1988 |
| Famous for Klondike stories, this early 20th c. writer didn't start high school until age 19 |
Jack London |
200 |
March 14, 1988 |
| Dostoyevsky suffered from this chronic brain disorder |
epilepsy |
300 |
March 14, 1988 |
| During WWII, poet & playwright Archibald MacLeish served as Asst. Sec'y of this diplomatic dept. |
State |
400 |
March 14, 1988 |
| A friend of poet John Donne, Izaak Walton is best known for this treatise on fishing & nature |
<i>The Compleat Angler</i> |
500 |
March 14, 1988 |
| His father fought against Napoleon in 1812, which he wrote about in "War and Peace" |
Tolstoy |
100 |
January 19, 1988 |
| In 1936, W.H. Auden married Thomas Mann's daughter so she could escape this country |
Nazi Germany |
200 |
January 19, 1988 |
| He exhibited his watercolors internationally but was more famous for "Tropic of Cancer" |
Henry Miller |
300 |
January 19, 1988 |
| Legend says this "Decameron" author was in love with the illegitimate daughter of the King of Naples |
Boccaccio |
400 |
January 19, 1988 |
| "Little Prince" author who disappeared while flying a WWII reconnaissance mission & was never found |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
500 |
January 19, 1988 |