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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
(6,913 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)I love guessing....it's fun (I'm usually wrong, but who cares?)
rampartc
(5,407 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)For Poetry, and was committed to an American psychiatric hospital for 12 years?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)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
(27,797 posts)You got #2 and #4 correct.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)"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
(4,858 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,848 posts)At "A Change of Hobbit" in Westwood.
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)(You got it)
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Not Heidi
(1,288 posts)First female Hugo recipient:
Shirley Jackson?
Just a guess.
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)Not Heidi
(1,288 posts):|
Not Heidi
(1,288 posts)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
(14,015 posts)It's one or the other, I think.
Not Heidi
(1,288 posts)Well done!
Harker
(14,015 posts)In Japan, it would be the former.
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...Cooperstown, where Abner Doubleday did *not* invent baseball...
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)[aka, the "Theory of Omission"]
VGNonly
(7,488 posts)See The Big Two-Hearted River
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)For the Dragonriders of Pern. I have the series in my bookcases.
Wolf
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(27,797 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)This author only wrote two sci-fi books.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Harker
(14,015 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The story is named "Minus Planet."
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...because I would have sworn he came first...
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)VGNonly
(7,488 posts)red dog 1
(27,797 posts)he had by age 18.