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1. What crusading writer ran for Governor of California in 1934, thirty years after he had become famous with a book exposing abuses in the meatpacking industry?
2. What writer first became famous with 'The Naked and the Dead', his World War II novel, and later ran for Mayor of New York in 1969, with Jimmy Breslin as his running mate?
3. What Oklahoma town did the Joad family emigrate from in Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
4. In Frederick Exley's autobiographical novel 'A Fan's Notes', what team was the author fanatically devoted to?
5. Who accidentally killed his wife while trying to shoot a glass off her head?
6. Samuel Clemens started using the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' when he was 27. Where did that phrase come from?
7. What book begins, 'In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen.' ?
8. Fill in the blank: 'His name was George F. _____________. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.'
9. Who was such a poor public speaker that his 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech was greeted with only polite applause, because it was virtually unintelligible to the audience, but was universally acclaimed as one of the best acceptance speeches ever after it was published in the paper the following day?
10. James Michener's last TV interview was about what?
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