What’s In A Name?

Question: Who wrote Things Fall Apart?

Answer: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe wrote the classic novel Things Fall Apart, about life in a fictitious African state. It was published in 1958.

Question: Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a famous book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin about the difficult lives of slaves in the United States.

Question: Which novelist wrote Emma?

Answer: The novel Emma was written by Jane Austen.

Question: Who wrote A Study in Scarlet?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of A Study in Scarlet and many other novels and stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Question: The author of The Call of the Wild was:

Answer: Jack London published The Call of the Wild, set in Alaska, in 1903. London lived there for a short time and wrote many books about it.

Question: Who wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Answer: The great French novelist Victor Hugo created two of the most famous characters in literature—Jean Valjean, the hero of Les Misérables and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Question: Who wrote Siddhartha?

Answer: Hermann Hesse, the German-born Swiss author, wrote his book Siddhartha about the life of Buddha.

Question: The author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories is:

Answer: Alan Alexander Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh and other books about that beloved bear in the 1920s.

Question: Which of these British authors wrote An Outline of History?

Answer: H.G. Wells, the author of The Time Machine and other novels, also wrote historical and scientific works.

Question: Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?

Answer: Alan Paton was a South African teacher and leader of the anti-apartheid Liberal Party. Cry, the Beloved Country appeared in 1948.