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Name the Author II

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of this author, currently the best-selling author alive, with more than 800 million copies of her novels sold?

a)

Danielle Steel

b)

Lisa Jackson

c)

Phillipa Gregory

d)

Catherine Coulter

2.

What is the name of this author, creator of the bestselling novel “The Circle”?

a)

Dave Eggers

b)

Douglas Coupland

c)

Bret Easton Ellis

d)

Craig Clevenger

3.

Who is this bestselling author of novels like “Camel Club”, “The Innocent” and “Simple Genius”?

a)

David Baldacci

b)

Michael Connelly

c)

James Patterson

d)

Lee Child

4.

Which author’s works include “Snow Falling on Cedars” and “East of the Mountains”?

a)

David Guterson

b)

Charles Frazier

c)

Auberon Waugh

d)

Scott Hicks

5.

What is the name of this author, whose works include books like “Me Talk Pretty One Day”?

a)

David Sedaris

b)

Kurt Vonnegut

c)

Augusten Burroughs

d)

Dave Eggers

6.

What is the name of this bestselling horror writer, author of novels like “False Memory” and “Life Expectancy”?

a)

Dean Koontz

b)

Sidney Sheldon

c)

Stephen King

d)

John Saul

7.

This author’s “Tree of Smoke” won the National Book Award for Fiction. Who is he?

a)

Denis Johnson

b)

George Saunders

c)

Daniel Woodrel

d)

Kent Haruf

8.

Who wrote “The Enduring Flame”, and was the first President of the Romantic Novelists’ Association?

a)

Denise Robins

b)

Pat Booth

c)

Susan Carroll

d)

Christina Abbey

9.

Name this author, whose notable works include “Gone, Baby, Gone” and “Mystic River”?

a)

Dennis Lehane

b)

Jack Ketchum

c)

Mitch Albom

d)

Tim LaHaye

10.

This author’s “Outlander” novels are also a popular television series. Who is she?

a)

Diana Gabaldon

b)

Katherine Paterson

c)

Charlaine Harris

d)

Georgette Heyer

11.

Novels written by this author include “The Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes” and “The Shadow Wife”. What is her name?

a)

Diane Chamberlain

b)

Diana Blake

c)

Diane Setterfield

d)

Dana Cox

12.

What is the name of this author, who wrote “White Noise” and “Cosmopolis”?

a)

Don DeLillo

b)

William Gaddis

c)

Philip Roth

d)

Jose Saramago

13.

Who is the best selling author of “The Little Friend” and “The Goldfinch”?

a)

Donna Tartt

b)

Gillian Flynn

c)

Diane Chamberlain

d)

Nicci French

14.

This author’s works include “The Golden Notebook” and “The Fifth Child”. What is her name?

a)

Doris Lessing

b)

Elizabeth Jolley

c)

Sarah Paretsky

d)

Sarah Kirsch

15.

What is the name of this author, whose works include the novel “Bastard Out of Carolina”?

a)

Dorothy Allison

b)

Connie Willis

c)

Janet Finch

d)

Alice Walker

16.

What is the name of this author whose works include the novels in the “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” series?

a)

Douglas Adams

b)

Neal Stephenson

c)

Bruce Sterling

d)

Aldous Huxley

17.

What is the name of this famous children’s author, creator of books like “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Lorax”?

a)

Dr. Seuss

b)

Shel Silverstein

c)

Maurice Sendak

d)

E.B. White

18.

What is the name of this author whose famous works include the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web”?

a)

E.B. White

b)

A.A. Milne

c)

Beatrix Potter

d)

Beverly Cleary

19.

What is the name of this author, whose works include novels like “Billy Bathgate”, “Daniel” and “Welcome to Hard Times”?

a)

E.L. Doctorow

b)

Philip Roth

c)

Saul Bellow

d)

Terrence McNally

20.

Which author found fame with her “Fifty Shades of Grey” series, which originally began as “Twilight” fan fiction?

a)

E.L. James

b)

Olivia Cunning

c)

Molly Harper

d)

Jessica Sorensen

21.

With tales like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Purloined Letter”, this dreary author made a name for himself. What is that name?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

H. Rider Haggard

c)

Whitley Streiber

d)

Oscar Wilde

22.

Which American writer is the creator of classic characters Tarzan and John Carter?

a)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

b)

Robert E. Howard

c)

Jules Verne

d)

Frank Frazetta

23.

Who is this journalist and playwright who also penned novels like “The Green Archer” and “Creature With the Blue Hand”?

a)

Edgar Wallace

b)

Desmond Bagley

c)

Bill Bryson

d)

James Michener

24.

What is the name of this author, whose novels include “Ethan Frome” and “ House of Mirth”?

a)

Edith Wharton

b)

Louisa May Alcott

c)

Anne Bronte

d)

Jane Austen

25.

Who is this celebrated author of the award-winning novel “The Luminaries”?

a)

Eleanor Catton

b)

Gertrude Stein

c)

Sylvia Plath

d)

Jane Austen