How well do you know your favorite authors? Take this famous author quiz to prove how much of a bibliophile you are! To understand a book, you must also understand the author. Authors of our favorite works of literature have come from different eras, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures. Just like classic movies, works of classic literature are time capsules that provide us with insight into the culture of a particular period.
They also have unique personalities that directly influence the story, the characters, messages, and themes of their books. Roald Dahl was known as Roald the Rotten because of his nasty behavior that most likely spawned from a rough childhood. His work shows the darker experiences that children may go through. These surprisingly true famous author trivia questions and answers will make you think they are straight out of one of these authors’ books.
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The Three Laws are rules governing the behaviour of robots written by which author?
J K Rowling
J K Rowling
L Ron Hubbard
L Ron Hubbard
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Issac Asimov
Issac Asimov
Against what is Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ set?
US Civil War
US Civil War
World War I
World War I
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
World War II
World War II
Georges Marvelous Medicine is a famous work by which children’s author?
CS Lewis
CS Lewis
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
Lewis Caroll
Lewis Caroll
Which novelist wrote the book ‘Death in Venice’?
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a work by which author?
JKRowling
JKRowling
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Which infamous movie villain was originally created by American horror/thriller author Thomas Harris?
Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
Norman Bates (Psycho)
Norman Bates (Psycho)
The Joker (Batman)
The Joker (Batman)
Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
Which spy was brought up among the bombed-out ruins of WWII Berlin?
John Brock
John Brock
Bernard Samson
Bernard Samson
John Steed
John Steed
Herbie Kruger
Herbie Kruger
Which author created the character Leopold Bloom?
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
James Joyce
James Joyce
John Updike
John Updike
Which book contains the line ‘perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one’?
Cujo
Cujo
Killing Floor
Killing Floor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Who created the character Kenneth Widmerpool?
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell
Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Tom Holt’s book ‘Expecting Someone Taller’ is very loosely based on whose operatic saga?
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Who co-wrote ‘Peter and the Starcatchers’ and ‘Cave of the Dark Wind’ with Ridley Pearson?
Gene Weingarten
Gene Weingarten
Dave Barry
Dave Barry
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen
Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Which author wrote War and Peace?
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
George R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin
Harper Lee
Harper Lee
The To The End of The Earth Trilogy is by which author?
George Orwell
George Orwell
DH Lawrence
DH Lawrence
William Golding
William Golding
Jerome K Jerome
Jerome K Jerome
The Sandcastle is a major work by which author?
Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
JKRowling
JKRowling
Irish Murdoch
Irish Murdoch
Published in 1900 and about a cycling tour in Germany, what was the sequel to Three Men in a Boat?
Novel Notes
Novel Notes
Told After Supper
Told After Supper
Three Men on the Bummel
Three Men on the Bummel
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Which novel features a group of choirboys led by Jack Merridew?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Swallows and Amazons
Swallows and Amazons
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
The Stone Book Series is a series of novels by which author?
Jenny Joseph
Jenny Joseph
Graham Swift
Graham Swift
Alan Garner
Alan Garner
William Golding
William Golding
Which of these was a real 19th century author?
Maddox Ford Maddox
Maddox Ford Maddox
Maddox Ford
Maddox Ford
Ford Ford Maddox
Ford Ford Maddox
Ford Maddox Ford
Ford Maddox Ford
Who wrote the novel ‘The Bourne Identity’?
Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum
Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy
Eric Van Lustbader
Eric Van Lustbader
In what year was the novel ‘The Code of the Woosters’ first published?
1908
1908
1918
1918
1938
1938
1928
1928
In which novel is the protagonist called Winston Smith?
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun
Ulysses
Ulysses
Wives and Daughters as well as Cousin Phillis were works by which author?
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
Ford Maddox Ford
Ford Maddox Ford
EM Forster
EM Forster
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
Holden Caulfield appears in which novel?
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
The 1969 novel ‘The Godfather’ was written by which author?
Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
Which author would only write when facing north?
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
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