SOME OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF ALL TIME
Do not scroll down yet!!! (the correct answers are below). Can you guess the surnames of SOME OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF ALL TIME? And……. GO…!!!
- Stephen ………
- J.R.R. ……….
- Charles ……….
- Edgar Allan ………
- J.K. ……….
- William ………..
- Sir Arthur Conan ……….
- Agatha ……….
- Truman ……….
- Jane ……….
ANSWERS:
- Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973), known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
- Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
- J.K. Rowling
Creator of the Harry Potter series of books.
- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
- Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright.
- Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote, born Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a “nonfiction novel”. At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays.
- Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist known principally for her five major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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