Interesting Facts About Famous Writers Quiz

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".

Answer: Mary Ann Evans

A woman, Mary Ann Evans used the name George Eliot to ease publication. An interesting tidbit of information about George Eliot - She had a romantic affair with a married man, George Henry Lewes, for over twenty years because he couldn't divorce his mentally unbalanced wife.

Answer: Hermann Hesse

Born in Calw, Germany in 1877, Hesse was once entered in the Protestant Seminary at Maulbrann to become a minister like his father. Unfortunately, he was expelled. His later famous novel, `Siddhartha', extolled the belief in asceticism.

Answer: No

Stephen Crane was not born until 1871. He did, however, serve in the Spanish-American War as a news correspondent. When he died in 1900 it was from tuberculosis and the effects of malaria, which he caught in Cuba during his years as a correspondent.

Answer: James Joyce

In 1907, after his extremely devout Catholic mother's death, James Joyce took up with a chambermaid, Nora Barnacle. They traveled extensively and lived openly as lovers for thirty years during the prudish early part of the 20th Cenutry. They did not marry until 1931. James Joyce was famous for writing the often censured Ulysses, amongst other works of literature.

Answer: Robert Frost

Robert Frost, poet, was the favored writer of President John F. Kennedy. He participated in his 1961 inaugeration by reciting two of his poems. By the time Robert Frost died in 1963, he was the unofficial poet laureate of the USA.

Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Born in 1874 in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery's mother died when Lucy was only two years old. Her father abandoned her to her maternal grandmother because he wanted to re-marry, move away, and begin a new family with his new wife, leaving all reminders of his first marriage behind him. Lucy Maud Montgomery was famous for writing the `Anne of Green Gables' series, stories which semi-mirrored her own life, as Anne was an orphan living on Prince Edward Island.

Answer: True

Born in Burlington, New Jersey in 1789, James Fenimore Cooper's father, Judge William Cooper decided to move his family to a more remote area a year after his son's birth. He chose a pleasant area near Otsego Lake in upstate New York. The settlement he founded was named Cooperstown. Cooperstown is known as the home of the National Baseball Hall Of Fame. James Fenimore Cooper grew up to be famous for writing `The Last Of The Mohicans'.

Answer: False

O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, was convicted and imprisoned for embezzlement. It was while in prison in Columbus, Ohio, that he began to write his short stories for which he became famous. His short stories all have a twist, surprise ending. "Gift of The Magi", a Christmas story of love and selflessness is one of his best known stories.

Answer: Jack London

In his lifetime, Jack London was not only a hobo, but also a seaman, before educating himself and gaining admission to the University of California at Berkeley. London, a noted Socialist, also once ran for mayor of Oakland California in 1901 under the Social Party ticket. He wrote `Call Of The Wild', amongst other stories.