Easy
Question: Which famous author wrote 'Ulysses'?
Answer: James Joyce
Question: The 'Winnie-the-Pooh' book series was written by which author?
Answer: A.A. Milne
Question: The classic American novel, 'Of Mice and Men', was written by which author?
Answer: John Steinbeck
Question: In which country did author Arthur C. Clarke spend the last years of his life?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Question: In which country was author Peter Carey born?
Answer: Australia
Question: What does the 'J' stand for in J. K. Rowling?
Answer: Joanne
Question: How many full-length novels did Harper Lee have published?
Answer: 1
Question: What type of writing is Paul Theroux associated with other than novels?
Answer: Travel
Question: Which famous author wrote 'The Shining'?
Answer: Stephen King
Question: When was the Nobel Prize in Literature first awarded?
Answer: 1901
Question: Musica Animalia is a kids music album by which best selling author?
Answer: Dan Brown
Question: Dracula' was written by which author?
Answer: Bram Stoker
Question: Which famous author wrote 'The Hobbit'?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
Question: The trilogy entitled 'His Dark Materials', was written by which author?
Answer: Philip Pullman
Question: Author Howard Jacobson predominantly writes about people of which religion?
Answer: Judaism
Question: The Scarlet Letter' was written by which American author?
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Question: The author Vladimir Nabokov was from which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: The Great Gatsby' was written by which author?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Question: The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass' were written by which author?
Answer: Philip Pullman
Question: The 'Twilight' book series was written by which author?
Answer: Stephanie Meyer
Question: The Devil Wears Prada' is a novel by which author?
Answer: Lauren Weisberger
Question: Which author wrote 'The Invisible Man'?
Answer: H.G. Wells
Question: In which US state was Mark Twain born?
Answer: Missouri
Question: Which county is Thomas Hardy associated with?
Answer: Dorset
Question: Which author wrote 'Eragon' in 2002?
Answer: Christopher Paolini
Question: Fifty Shades of Grey' was written by which author?
Answer: E. L. James
Question: Which author created the character, Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Question: Which famous author writer 'The Raven'?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Question: Which author writes 'The Southern Vampire Mysteries' book series?
Answer: Charlaine Harris
Question: Atonement', 'Enduring Love' and 'Solar' are all novels by which author?
Answer: Ian McEwan
Question: The 'James Bond' series of spy novels were written by which author?
Answer: Ian Fleming
Question: The 1955 novel, 'Lolita', was written by which author?
Answer: Vladimir Nabokov
Question: Author Kiran Desai is from which country?
Answer: India
Question: How old was Anita Brookner when she published her first novel?
Answer: 53
Question: Animal Farm' is a novel by which author?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: James and the Giant Peach' is a classic children's novel written by which author?
Answer: Roald Dahl
Question: The Picture of Dorian Grey' was written by which author?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: Stephen King is an author who most commonly writes which genre of fiction?
Answer: Horror
Question: Which Swedish author wrote the 'Millennium' trilogy?
Answer: Stieg Larsson
Medium
Question: Which Scottish author created Inspector John Rebus?
Answer: Ian Rankin
Question: Whose epitaph reads: 'Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!'?
Answer: W. B. Yeats
Question: In which country was the novelist Oliver Goldsmith born?
Answer: Republic of Ireland
Question: Hilary Mantel has written novels featuring fictional accounts of which historical figure?
Answer: Thomas Cromwell
Question: Whose autobiography is 'Long Walk to Freedom'?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Question: The father of Princess Diana married the daughter of which author?
Answer: Barbara Cartland
Question: How many Brontë Sisters were there?
Answer: 3
Question: What was Iris Murdoch's first published novel?
Answer: Under the Net
Question: What was the pseudonym of H. H. Munro?
Answer: Saki
Question: Who is the author of the 'Culture' science-fiction series?
Answer: Iain M. Banks
Question: What nationality was author Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: Danish
Question: Granada Airport is named after which writer?
Answer: Federico García Lorca
Question: Novelist David Ireland wrote about a canoe made from what material?
Answer: Glass
Question: Which member of the Inklings literary group wrote 'The Place of the Lion' and 'Descent into Hell'?
Answer: Charles Williams
Question: Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under what pen name?
Answer: Mark Twain
Question: Monica Ali's debut novel was named after what street in London?
Answer: Brick Lane
Question: What's the name of US author Donna Tartt's first novel?
Answer: The Secret History
Question: Which author wrote, 'Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it'?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Question: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli wrote which master piece?
Answer: The Prince
Question: What was Jeffrey Archer's first successful novel?
Answer: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Question: What was the pen name of Arthur Sarsfield Ward?
Answer: Sax Rohmer
Question: Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel 'The Life of Pi'?
Answer: Yann Martel
Question: What was author Willy Russell's profession after leaving school?
Answer: Hairdresser
Question: Which of these authors contributed to the rise of absurdism?
Answer: Albert Camus
Question: Which one of these is NOT a novel by Dick Francis?
Answer: Rough Ride
Question: With what genre of books do you associate Barbara Cartland?
Answer: Romance
Question: Which of these authors wrote 'Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang'?
Answer: Ian Fleming
Question: Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971?
Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Question: Which Scottish author became Baron Tweedsmuir?
Answer: John Buchan
Question: Which author is the son of actor Tony Van Bridge?
Answer: Michael Morpurgo
Question: The novels 'Money' and 'London Fields' are by which British writer?
Answer: Martin Amis
Question: Which novelist was the cousin of horror movie actor Christopher Lee?
Answer: Ian Fleming
Hard
Question: Whose first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975?
Answer: Salman Rushdie
Question: Which British Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Under which pseudonym did Eric Arthur Blair write?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: Who coined the phrase 'the lost generations'?
Answer: Gertrude Stein
Question: Which poet drowned in a sailing accident in 1822?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Question: The Brontë siblings are all believed to have died from what disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis
Question: What is the real name of writer John Le Carré?
Answer: David Cornwell
Question: Who said, on arriving at New York customs, 'I have nothing to declare but my genius'?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Question: Towel Day is a celebration of which author?
Answer: Douglas Adams
Question: Who is the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Question: For what do G. K. Chesterton's initials stand?
Answer: Gilbert Keith
Question: Which author was married to Florence Dugdale?
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Question: Which crime writer also publishes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine?
Answer: Ruth Rendell
