Ask a question about an American writer & see if anyone knows the answer w/o using google-Part 4

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(Guesses are welcome)



1) What American writer has an asteroid named after him?

2) What American writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, twice, and was a close friend of director Howard Hawks? (answered)

3) What science fiction writer wrote "The Left Hand of Darkness"?

4) What sci-fi writer won four Hugo Awards and came up with the idea for the waterbed? (answered)

5) Who was the first female author to receive a Hugo Award for Fiction? (answered)

6) What famous movie director once wrote a screenplay for "Gunsmoke"?

7) What two foreign languages did J.D. Salinger speak?

8) What was the original title of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

9) What was Dan Brown's occupation before "The Da Vinci Code" was released?







More Q's about American writers from Part 3:
https://democraticunderground.com/10181543848

[Shrike47]

1. Oh, I've got lots of guesses but I will look foolish to my presently admiring fans if I do it.

[red dog 1]

4. "presently admiring fans"?

I love guessing....it's fun (I'm usually wrong, but who cares?)

[rampartc]

2. 3 ursula laguin

[red dog 1]

3. Ding!

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5. What expatriate American poet supported Mussolini and Hitler, won the first Bollinger Prize

For Poetry, and was committed to an American psychiatric hospital for 12 years?

[First Speaker]

8. Ezra Pound

[red dog 1]

19. Ding!

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6. What was Kurt Vonnegut's inspiration for the title of "Slaughterhouse-Five"?

[First Speaker]

9. The place where he observed the firebombing of Dresden as a POW...

[red dog 1]

20. Yes!

[First Speaker]

7. OK, some guesses...

1.--Isaac Asimov?

2. William Faulkner?

4. Robert A. Heinlein (Don't need a question mark for this one.)

5. C.L. Moore? (If it wasn't her, it *should* have been.)

[red dog 1]

21. Ding! Ding!

You got #2 and #4 correct.

[First Speaker]

10. What famous SF/Fantasy writer was the son of a prominent Shakespearean actor?

[First Speaker]

11. Name two writers who ghosted Ellery Queen novels...

"Ellery Queen" was the pen name of Manfred Lee and Nathan Dannay. Lee had writer's block at one point, and two well-known writers ghosted novels for him. Who were they?

[First Speaker]

12. What famous short-story writer joined the Baseball Writers of America in 1911...?

[red dog 1]

13. What famous author used to sit at a typewriter in bookstore windows and write?

[CloudWatcher]

17. Harlan Ellison

At "A Change of Hobbit" in Westwood.

[red dog 1]

18. I watched him sit & write at a bookstore on Haight Street (SF)

(You got it)

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Who won a PUlitzer Prize for poetry and fiction (not in the same year) nt

[First Speaker]

26. Robert Penn Warren?

[Not Heidi]

15. Question No. Five:

First female Hugo recipient:

Shirley Jackson?

Just a guess.

[red dog 1]

22. Nope, good guess though

[Not Heidi]

24. Sigh.

:|

[Not Heidi]

16. What Japanese-born author is recipient of both

the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature?

For most of you it's probably as well-known as your own middle names. But for all the authors I admire and whose work I know well, this is all I could come up with.

[Harker]

37. Ishiguro Kazuo? Kazuo Ishiguro?

It's one or the other, I think.

[Not Heidi]

42. It's the latter, and that is correct.

Well done!

[Harker]

43. Thank you!

In Japan, it would be the former.

[red dog 1]

23. What famous writer's father founded a town in New York State?

[First Speaker]

27. James Fenimore Cooper...

...Cooperstown, where Abner Doubleday did *not* invent baseball...

[red dog 1]

33. Ding!

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25. What famous writer came up with the "Iceberg Theory" of writing?

[aka, the "Theory of Omission"]

[VGNonly]

47. Ernest Hemingway

See The Big Two-Hearted River

[red dog 1]

49. Ding!

[First Speaker]

28. What well-known writer was a first cousin of Richard Nixon?

[Wolf Frankula]

29. 5 is Anne McCaffrey

For the Dragonriders of Pern. I have the series in my bookcases.

Wolf

[red dog 1]

34. You got it, Wolf!

[jmowreader]

30. Hunter Thompson once ran for sheriff. Name a plank from his campaign platform.

[red dog 1]

32. Legalize Marijuana?

[jmowreader]

31. Who was the first sci-fi writer to deal with antimatter?

[red dog 1]

35. Arthur C. Clarke?

[jmowreader]

36. You got the last name

This author only wrote two sci-fi books.

[First Speaker]

40. John D Clarke?

[Harker]

38. Directly? n/t

[jmowreader]

39. Directly.

The story is named "Minus Planet."

[First Speaker]

41. Jack Williamson's "Seetee" stories must have come after this...

...because I would have sworn he came first...

[red dog 1]

44. What Sci-fi writer wrote the short story "The Horror on the #33"?

[red dog 1]

45. Who wrote the novella "Stand By Me"(1986) is based on?

[VGNonly]

46. Stephen King

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48. Ding!

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50. Harlan Ellison frequently ran away from home, taking an array of odd jobs, name one of the jobs

he had by age 18.