Writers & Authors Trivia

31. Which female writer was the first woman registered to vote in Concord, Massachusetts?

From Quiz Interesting Facts About Famous Writers

Answer: Louisa May Alcott

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832, Louisa May Alcott was a suffragette. While living in Concord, New Hampshire in 1879, she registered to vote and did vote in the Concord school election. She is famous for writing, "Little Women".

From Quiz Anecdotes About European Authors

Answer: Emile Zola

"J'accuse", had been the title of the public letter which Zola had had published in a French paper. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was born in Paris as the son of an Italian engineer. He spent his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. At the death of his father in 1858, he moved back to Paris. Worked for some time for the publishing-house Hachette. Personal friend of Paul Cézanne. His cycle "The Rougon Macquart" was an almost scientific study of a family under the Second Empire. Zola was already an opponent of Napoleon III, when, through his involvement in the Dreyfus affair, he further angered the French establishment. It was only by escaping to England, that he could avoid being imprisoned. It took until Dreyfus had been cleared before Zola was able to return. Anatole France (1844-1924)is the pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault. Proust was born at Auteuil in 1871 and died in Paris, of pneumonia, in 1922. First part of " A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" was published in 1903.

From Quiz Famous Authors And Poets Biographies

Answer: Louisa May Alcott

She was educated at home by her father, Bronson. Her most famous work being "Little Women" written in two parts in 1868 and 1869.

From Quiz Ten Romantics

Answer: Charles Lamb

Lamb is better known for his essays than for his poetry. This quote comes from "Hester." Lamb was in an asylum in 1795. The following year, his sister Mary murdered their mother with an axe.

From Quiz Oddities of the Literary World

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

The Irish-born dramatist Shaw really wasn't such a bad guy, he was simply driven by his work, as the following quote points out admirably, 'The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.' In reality, Shaw was a tireless activist for women's rights, among other worthy causes, and he was an excellent playwright to boot (see 'Major Barbara', for example.)

From Quiz Famous Polish Writers

Answer: Stanislaw Lem

The film stars George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. The novel "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem was published for the first time in 1961. It has been translated into more than 30 languages. "Solaris" was first adapted into a film by Russia's Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972. Stanislaw Lem died in 2006, at the age of 84.

From Quiz Who Literally Said What About Which Literary Great

Answer: James Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish playwright and novelist, one of nine children. Peter Pan was his most celebrated work, first presented in 1904. He wanted his work to benefit children in more ways than one, so he donated the rights to Peter Pan to a London children's hospital.

From Quiz Common Bond - Find This Mystery Author

Answer: Julia

Julia Bertram is not a very sympathetic character, but her sister Maria is even worse. A married woman, Maria Rushworth (nee Bertram) forms an adulterous relationship with Henry Crawford, her cousin Fanny's suitor.

From Quiz Very Dramatic Lives of Creative People

Answer: Victor Hugo

Hugo, famous for "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", enjoyed fame and prominence - but certainly had his share of family misfortunes. The madness of his daughter - involving her unrequited love for another man - became the subject of a movie: "The Story of Adele H".

From Quiz Fiction Derived From Life

Answer: Long Day's Journey Into Night

A rough life, too. All had some major issues in life. The play shows the pain and torment of all of them, earning O'Neill a Nobel Prize. (The others are his plays, too).

From Quiz Useless Trivia About Writers

Answer: Shirley Temple

Whilst literary editor of the "Night and Day" magazine, Greene wrote a review of one of Shirley's films accusing the 9 year old of purposely being suggestive and coquettish. Shirley and her studio (20th Century Fox) sued him for libel and won, resulting in a fine of £3,500 - of which £500 had to be paid by Greene personally.

From Quiz The Benchleys

Answer: Worcester, Mass.

Also the birthplace of filmmaker Samuel Fuller.

From Quiz Romanticism and Critical Theory

Answer: Keats

This is from one of Keats' many letters, which are vaguely interesting - except when he begins to waffle. Unfortunately, beauty didn't obliterate all of Keats' considerations as he died at the age of 25. However, he was incredibly prolific.

From Quiz Writers And Their Muses

Answer: Byron

A distant cousin

From Quiz Weird Facts About Authors

Answer: Hemingway & Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of 17.

From Quiz Writers and Actors

Answer: Suicide

Suicide - shortly after the death of his wife.

From Quiz Overlooked or Forgotten Writers

Answer: William Congreve

A comedy of the time (1700)

From Quiz Quotes from the Literary Gods

Answer: Erasmus

It means to call things as they are without unnecessary embellishments. Erasmus, the Dutch scholar, certainly dispensed with the pleasantries in his work 'In Praise of Folly'!

From Quiz More Dramatic Lives

Answer: Eugene O'Neill

O'Neill's life is honestly and powerfully displayed in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'. Stark - and sad.

From Quiz Dramatic Lives of Creative People

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Poe had a great imagination - but a truly terrible life.

From Quiz Author! Author!

Answer: Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman (1905-84) went from working for $50 per week to being a successful Broadway playwright. This led directly to opportunities as a screenwriter and much, much better pay. Unfortunately, Hellman's political leanings led to being blacklisted in Hollywood after she was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused to answer their questions. This did not stop her from continuing to write for Broadway, but her career would never recover. Hellman's most well-known work was her 1939 play "The Little Foxes", which she also adapted for the silver screen in 1941, making her the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

From Quiz Interesting Facts about World Writers

Answer: Upton Sinclair

Sinclair remained socially active after the success of 'The Jungle', which exposed the meatpacking abuses. But even though he was the Democratic candidate in the 1934 California election, President FDR refused to endorse him, and he ended up losing the race.

From Quiz Hard Habit to Break

Answer: Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie liked to eat apples, drink tea, and look at crime photographs in the bathtub, saying it helped fuel her creative thinking. She quit the habit after observing that the bathtub was "too slippery, with no nice wooden ledge to rest pencils and paper on." She was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on September 15, 1890. In 1916, while working as a nurse, Christie wrote her first book, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", which featured her famous detective Hercule Poirot. It was published in 1920, after which followed many more novels, some were Poirot novels, and some featured Miss Marple, and duo Tommy and Tuppence. Her play "The Mousetrap" is considered one of history's longest running plays. Christie's detective are known worldwide and have been played be many actors. She married Archie Christie in 1914. They had a daughter, Rosalind, in 1919. Archie and Agatha divorced in 1928. In 1930, she remarried the archeologist Max Mallowan, and remained married until her death on January 12, 1976, at the age of 85.

From Quiz Writers Of The Western Isles

Answer: Ireland

"USA Today" best-selling author Claire Allan was born in Derry-Londonderry in 1976 and worked as a journalist before turning to writing full time. Her early books were written while she was still working for "The Derry Journal". Her first book in 2006, "Rainy Days and Tuesdays" was a romantic comedy and several more followed in the genre before her first thriller "Her Name Was Rose" was published in 2008. Claire Allan also wrote under the pseudonym Freya Kennedy.

From Quiz More Authors Who Also Wrote Hymns

Answer: George MacDonald

The list of authors who have said they were influenced by MacDonald is incredible. It includes W.H. Auden, C.S. Lewis, J.M. Barrie, L. Frank Baum, Lloyd Alexander, J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, and one contemporary who called MacDonald his mentor, Lewis Carroll. MacDonald's works are reprinted yet today, often in "modernized" language.

From Quiz Authors Who Also Wrote Hymns

Answer: Anna Bartlett Warner

The hymn is "Jesus Love Me." It was featured in Warner's sister, Susan Warner's novel, "The Wide, Wide World." Anna was also a novelist. Some of the novels of the two sisters were written jointly.

From Quiz Choo Choose Thomas! Part 2

Answer: His son had the measles.

In 1942 Reverend Awdry's son was two and a half years old, and sick with the measles. He told the stories to entertain the boy during his illness, however, he did eventually write them down because his son would correct him if the details of a repeated story had changed. His wife, Margaret, eventually found the drafts that had been hurriedly written on the back of Mother's Union (a family charity originally founded by the wife of a rector of the Church of England) circulars. By 1945 his stories were published under the title "The Three Railway Engines".

From Quiz Match The Right Writer To The Right Written Tome

Answer: Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens who was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Samuel's birth coincided with Halley's Comet and he predicted that his death would come with the comet's next reappearance. He died the day after Halley's Comet appeared in the night sky, April 21, 1910. He was called "the father of American literature" by William Faulkner and is considered by many to be "the greatest American humorist of his age". My favorite Mark Twain quote is "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

From Quiz Authors of India

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a great author from India. He was born on 7 May 1861 in Kolkata, India. His spouse was Mrinalini Dev. He was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali". He died on 7 August 1941 (aged 80) in Kolkata, India. He also had a pet dog about which he wrote several poems. His other notable works are "Gora", "Ghare-Baire", "Jana Gana Mana" (Indian national anthem), "Rabindra Sangeet", "Amar Shonar Bangla".

From Quiz Authors from India (Part II)

Answer: Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English. He was born on 12 december 1905 in what is now Pakistan and died on 2004 (aged 99) in Pune, India. He also got Padma Bhushan award by Indian Government for his notable works in Literature. Other famous books by him: "Untouchable", "Across the Black Waters", "The Indian Theatre", "Reflection on a White Elephant", "The Big Heart", "The Village", "Two Leaves and a Bud", "The Sword and the Sickle", "Of Power and Pity" and some more books.

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