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Can you name the following authors of classic American literature? Enter an author in the box below Correctly named authors will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order Make sure you try British Literature! You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3984 TV Shows (U.S.) 3055 Broadway Opening Lines 2961 You Do Know Jack 1310 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1232 Same Last Name 1078 And more...
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Title	Author
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
To Kill a Mockingbird
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Great Gatsby
The Age of Innocence
Walden
The Red Badge of Courage
Invisible Man
Slaughterhouse-Five

Title	Author
My Ántonia
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Of Mice and Men
The Last of the Mohicans
The Sound and the Fury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Moby-Dick
The Scarlet Letter
The Catcher in the Rye

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	Moose:	Dec 24th, 2008 at 07:09 GMT	-1 points
	Very good quiz. Knew them all.

	Mutford:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 21:55 GMT	13 points
	Good quiz. There are so many other variations and nationalities I'd like to see as well. I for one would love to see a Classic Canadian Literature.

	mkgrenwel:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	12 points
	Canadians can read?

	xander:	Feb 28th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	-1 points
	Great quiz! It would be fun to read all of these

	jessbowen:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 18:31 GMT	-1 points
	I knew Zora, but thought the last name was Houston, Huston, and all kinds of other spellings I tried. That was the only one I missed too - that is so frustrating when that happens. Great quiz

	Lia:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 15:12 GMT	3 points
	Great fun, can never remember Ralph Ellison's name though!

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	cdspro:	Jul 15th, 2009 at 08:38 GMT	3 points
	Steinback? Garbage??? walks away shaking head and muttering to self....

	jezzilynne:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 04:00 GMT	4 points
	Oh my. Please don't call Hawthorne garbage. Good choice. I didn't know them all, and I had to do a little racking of my English major brain.

	teapot37:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT	2 points
	I remembered her name as Zora Hurston Neale instead of the other way around. Had all the rest.

	ad808:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	2 points
	I kept typing in "Tubman" as the author of Uncle Toms Cabin. @teapot - you aren't the only one who thought the author of "Their Eyes.."was Neale. Otherwise, it was all good.

	AtoneMENT:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 06:28 GMT	2 points
	This was great, thanks. Anyone want to try one of my favorite authors?? http://www.sporcle.com/games/AtoneMENT/SinclairLewis

	debondair:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 11:17 GMT	0 points
	I still don't understand how The Catcher in The Rye is a classic. Especially when compared to the works of Steinbeck, Lee, Crane, Melville and the like.

	cashtray:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 12:26 GMT	0 points
	Come on, debondair, Catcher is completely a classic, albeit less for what it says than what it is. Anyone remotely interested in 20th century American literature is almost obligated to read it at this point.

	Dancinganimal256:	Nov 8th, 2009 at 02:14 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz. I had to read some of these for my American Literature class, so I guess that helped, even though we read House of Seven Gables and not The Scarlet Letter. Classics are not always known for being interesting books, if you can find a person that finds Walden a fun read please tell me, but more for what they say considering the time period when it was written.

	abanazerb:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	1 point
	Interesting to see what counts as a classic in the US - I count myself as reasonably literate (just got 19/20 on the British lit quiz!) but I'd never heard of 8 of these. No doubt it would be the other way around for an American doing the British quiz.

	betty2dogs:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 03:20 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz. Made me thankful I took so many American Lit courses. I kept getting Zora Neale Hurston as Zora Thurston Neal until I slowed down and kept at it.