World Famous Writers – GK Questions & Answers
This collection contains 500 General Knowledge questions and answers about world-famous writers. It covers novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers from across the world, making it a valuable study material for competitive exams, quizzes, and general awareness.
Overview
A. European Writers
Covers writers like Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Nietzsche and many others.Focus on classic literature, novels, plays, and philosophical works.
B. American Writers
Includes Mark Twain, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Toni Morrison etc.Emphasis on modern literature, social themes, and cultural influence.
C. Latin American Writers
Famous names like Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Isabel Allende.Known for magical realism and social commentary.
D. Russian Writers
Greats like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Solzhenitsyn.Focus on realism, philosophy, and historical context.
E. French Writers
Includes Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Rousseau, Sartre, Camus.Contribution to revolutionary thought, philosophy, and literature.
F. German Writers
Writers like Goethe, Schiller, Hesse, Mann, Brecht, Boll.Known for romanticism, existentialism, and modernist works.
G. Italian & Spanish Writers
Notable names: Dante, Cervantes, Machiavelli, Lorca.Rich tradition of poetry, epics, and political writing.
H. Asian Writers
Includes Rabindranath Tagore, Arundhati Roy, R.K. Narayan, Murakami, Kawabata.Wide variety: Indian, Japanese, Chinese literature.
I. African Writers
Writers like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.Strong themes of colonialism, independence, and identity.
J. Philosophers & Thinkers
Includes Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Marx.
Focus on philosophy, society, and political thought.
GK Questions & Answers: World Famous Writers
1. Q: Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
A: Jane Austen
2. Q: Who is the author of Harry Potter series?
A: J. K. Rowling
3. Q: Who wrote 1984 and Animal Farm?
A: George Orwell
4. Q: Who is the writer of One Hundred Years of Solitude?
A: Gabriel García Márquez
5. Q: Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
A: F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Q: Which author wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
A: Harper Lee
7. Q: Who is the author of The Catcher in the Rye?
A: J. D. Salinger
8. Q: Who wrote War and Peace?
A: Leo Tolstoy
9. Q: Who is the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings?
A: J. R. R. Tolkien
10. Q: Who wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
A: Arthur Conan Doyle
11. Q: Which French writer penned Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
A: Victor Hugo
12. Q: Who is the author of Don Quixote?
A: Miguel de Cervantes
13. Q: Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A: Dante Alighieri
14. Q: Who authored The Iliad and The Odyssey?
A: Homer
15. Q: Who wrote Moby-Dick?
A: Herman Melville
16. Q: Which writer is known for Ulysses?
A: James Joyce
17. Q: Who is the author of Anna Karenina?
A: Leo Tolstoy
18. Q: Who wrote Crime and Punishment?
A: Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. Q: Who wrote Madame Bovary?
A: Gustave Flaubert
20. Q: Who is the author of The Count of Monte Cristo?
A: Alexandre Dumas
21. Q: Who wrote Frankenstein?
A: Mary Shelley
22. Q: Who authored Dracula?
A: Bram Stoker
23. Q: Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
A: Emily Brontë
24. Q: Who wrote Jane Eyre?
A: Charlotte Brontë
25. Q: Which author is famous for The Picture of Dorian Gray?
A: Oscar Wilde
26. Q: Who is the author of Sense and Sensibility?
A: Jane Austen
27. Q: Who wrote The Brothers Karamazov?
A: Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Q: Who wrote Lolita?
A: Vladimir Nabokov
29. Q: Who is the writer of Brave New World?
A: Aldous Huxley
30. Q: Who wrote The Trial (Der Prozess)?
A: Franz Kafka
31. Q: Who is the author of Beloved?
A: Toni Morrison
32. Q: Who wrote Invisible Man?
A: Ralph Ellison
33. Q: Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
A: Ernest Hemingway
34. Q: Who is the author of The Sun Also Rises?
A: Ernest Hemingway
35. Q: Who wrote Maus: A Survivor’s Tale?
A: Art Spiegelman
36. Q: Who wrote Things Fall Apart?
A: Chinua Achebe
37. Q: Who is the author of The Stranger (L’Étranger)?
A: Albert Camus
38. Q: Who wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
A: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
39. Q: Who authored The Grapes of Wrath?
A: John Steinbeck
40. Q: Who wrote East of Eden?
A: John Steinbeck
41. Q: Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
A: Charles Dickens
42. Q: Who is the writer of David Copperfield?
A: Charles Dickens
43. Q: Who wrote Great Expectations?
A: Charles Dickens
44. Q: Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
A: Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. Q: Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
A: Harriet Beecher Stowe
46. Q: Who is the author of The Old Curiosity Shop?
A: Charles Dickens
47. Q: Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?
A: Kurt Vonnegut
48. Q: Who wrote The Metamorphosis?
A: Franz Kafka
49. Q: Who authored Fahrenheit 451?
A: Ray Bradbury
50. Q: Which writer wrote The Color Purple?
A: Alice Walker
51. Q: Who wrote Doctor Zhivago?
A: Boris Pasternak
52. Q: Who authored The Sound and the Fury?
A: William Faulkner
53. Q: Who wrote As I Lay Dying?
A: William Faulkner
54. Q: Who is the author of Catch-22?
A: Joseph Heller
55. Q: Who wrote Gone with the Wind?
A: Margaret Mitchell
56. Q: Who wrote Little Women?
A: Louisa May Alcott
57. Q: Who is the author of The Jungle Book?
A: Rudyard Kipling
58. Q: Who wrote Kim?
A: Rudyard Kipling
59. Q: Who wrote The Call of the Wild?
A: Jack London
60. Q: Who wrote White Fang?
A: Jack London
61. Q: Who is the author of A Farewell to Arms?
A: Ernest Hemingway
62. Q: Who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
A: Ernest Hemingway
63. Q: Who authored Of Mice and Men?
A: John Steinbeck
64. Q: Who wrote Cannery Row?
A: John Steinbeck
65. Q: Who is the author of The Pearl?
A: John Steinbeck
66. Q: Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
A: Daniel Defoe
67. Q: Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
A: Jonathan Swift
68. Q: Who is the author of Candide?
A: Voltaire
69. Q: Who wrote The Social Contract?
A: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
70. Q: Who wrote The Prince?
A: Niccolò Machiavelli
71. Q: Who authored Paradise Lost?
A: John Milton
72. Q: Who wrote Pilgrim’s Progress?
A: John Bunyan
73. Q: Who is the author of Faust?
A: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
74. Q: Who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther?
A: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
75. Q: Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?
A: Geoffrey Chaucer
76. Q: Who wrote Beowulf (author unknown, but often studied as early literature)?
A: Anonymous (Anglo-Saxon poet)
77. Q: Who authored Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear?
A: William Shakespeare
78. Q: Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
A: William Shakespeare
79. Q: Who is the author of The Tempest?
A: William Shakespeare
80. Q: Who wrote Twelfth Night?
A: William Shakespeare
81. Q: Who is the author of The Merchant of Venice?
A: William Shakespeare
82. Q: Who wrote Julius Caesar?
A: William Shakespeare
83. Q: Who wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
A: William Shakespeare
84. Q: Who is the author of Richard III?
A: William Shakespeare
85. Q: Who wrote King Henry V?
A: William Shakespeare
86. Q: Who authored Measure for Measure?
A: William Shakespeare
87. Q: Who wrote Sons and Lovers?
A: D. H. Lawrence
88. Q: Who wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
A: D. H. Lawrence
89. Q: Who is the author of Women in Love?
A: D. H. Lawrence
90. Q: Who wrote Nostromo?
A: Joseph Conrad
91. Q: Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
A: Joseph Conrad
92. Q: Who authored Lord Jim?
A: Joseph Conrad
93. Q: Who wrote The Good Earth?
A: Pearl S. Buck
94. Q: Who wrote Dragon Seed?
A: Pearl S. Buck
95. Q: Who is the author of The House of Mirth?
A: Edith Wharton
96. Q: Who wrote The Age of Innocence?
A: Edith Wharton
97. Q: Who authored The Waste Land?
A: T. S. Eliot
98. Q: Who wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
A: T. S. Eliot
99. Q: Who is the author of Leaves of Grass?
A: Walt Whitman
100. Q: Who wrote Song of Myself?
A: Walt Whitman
101. Q: Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
A: Maya Angelou
102. Q: Who authored And Still I Rise?
A: Maya Angelou
103. Q: Who wrote Native Son?
A: Richard Wright
104. Q: Who wrote Black Boy?
A: Richard Wright
105. Q: Who is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God?
A: Zora Neale Hurston
106. Q: Who wrote A Raisin in the Sun?
A: Lorraine Hansberry
107. Q: Who authored The Bluest Eye?
A: Toni Morrison
108. Q: Who wrote Song of Solomon?
A: Toni Morrison
109. Q: Who is the author of Go Tell It on the Mountain?
A: James Baldwin
110. Q: Who wrote Giovanni’s Room?
A: James Baldwin
111. Q: Who authored If Beale Street Could Talk?
A: James Baldwin
112. Q: Who wrote The Fire Next Time?
A: James Baldwin
113. Q: Who is the author of The Woman Warrior?
A: Maxine Hong Kingston
114. Q: Who wrote The Joy Luck Club?
A: Amy Tan
115. Q: Who authored The Kitchen God’s Wife?
A: Amy Tan
116. Q: Who wrote Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China?
A: Jung Chang
117. Q: Who wrote The Good Soldier Švejk?
A: Jaroslav Hašek
118. Q: Who authored The Book Thief?
A: Markus Zusak
119. Q: Who wrote The Kite Runner?
A: Khaled Hosseini
120. Q: Who wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns?
A: Khaled Hosseini
121. Q: Who authored And the Mountains Echoed?
A: Khaled Hosseini
122. Q: Who wrote Life of Pi?
A: Yann Martel
123. Q: Who wrote Midnight’s Children?
A: Salman Rushdie
124. Q: Who authored The Satanic Verses?
A: Salman Rushdie
125. Q: Who wrote Shame?
A: Salman Rushdie
126. Q: Who authored The White Tiger?
A: Aravind Adiga
127. Q: Who wrote An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India?
A: Shashi Tharoor
128. Q: Who authored Inglorious Empire?
A: Shashi Tharoor
129. Q: Who wrote Interpreter of Maladies?
A: Jhumpa Lahiri
130. Q: Who authored The Namesake?
A: Jhumpa Lahiri
131. Q: Who wrote Unaccustomed Earth?
A: Jhumpa Lahiri
132. Q: Who wrote Train to Pakistan?
A: Khushwant Singh
133. Q: Who authored Delhi: A Novel?
A: Khushwant Singh
134. Q: Who wrote The Company of Women?
A: Khushwant Singh
135. Q: Who is the author of God of Small Things?
A: Arundhati Roy
136. Q: Who wrote The Ministry of Utmost Happiness?
A: Arundhati Roy
137. Q: Who authored Clear Light of Day?
A: Anita Desai
138. Q: Who wrote In Custody?
A: Anita Desai
139. Q: Who authored Fasting, Feasting?
A: Anita Desai
140. Q: Who wrote Fire on the Mountain?
A: Anita Desai
141. Q: Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?
A: Alan Paton
142. Q: Who authored Disgrace?
A: J. M. Coetzee
143. Q: Who wrote Waiting for the Barbarians?
A: J. M. Coetzee
144. Q: Who wrote Life & Times of Michael K?
A: J. M. Coetzee
145. Q: Who authored Nervous Conditions?
A: Tsitsi Dangarembga
146. Q: Who wrote Americanah?
A: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
147. Q: Who authored Half of a Yellow Sun?
A: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
148. Q: Who wrote Purple Hibiscus?
A: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
149. Q: Who authored We Should All Be Feminists?
A: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
150. Q: Who wrote Season of Migration to the North?
A: Tayeb Salih
151. Q: Who authored The Palm-Wine Drinkard?
A: Amos Tutuola
152. Q: Who wrote So Long a Letter?
A: Mariama Ba
153. Q: Who authored God’s Bits of Wood?
A: Ousmane Sembène
154. Q: Who wrote Wizard of the Crow?
A: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
155. Q: Who authored Petals of Blood?
A: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
156. Q: Who wrote A Grain of Wheat?
A: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
157. Q: Who authored Decolonising the Mind?
A: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
158. Q: Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
A: Samuel Beckett
159. Q: Who authored Endgame?
A: Samuel Beckett
160. Q: Who wrote Molloy?
A: Samuel Beckett
161. Q: Who wrote The Bald Soprano?
A: Eugène Ionesco
162. Q: Who authored Rhinoceros?
A: Eugène Ionesco
163. Q: Who wrote No Exit?
A: Jean-Paul Sartre
164. Q: Who authored Being and Nothingness?
A: Jean-Paul Sartre
165. Q: Who wrote Nausea?
A: Jean-Paul Sartre
166. Q: Who authored The Plague?
A: Albert Camus
167. Q: Who wrote The Fall?
A: Albert Camus
168. Q: Who authored Myth of Sisyphus?
A: Albert Camus
169. Q: Who wrote Man’s Search for Meaning?
A: Viktor Frankl
170. Q: Who authored The Second Sex?
A: Simone de Beauvoir
171. Q: Who wrote Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter?
A: Simone de Beauvoir
172. Q: Who authored All Men Are Mortal?
A: Simone de Beauvoir
173. Q: Who wrote The Bell Jar?
A: Sylvia Plath
174. Q: Who authored Ariel (poetry collection)?
A: Sylvia Plath
175. Q: Who wrote Daddy (poem)?
A: Sylvia Plath
176. Q: Who authored Birthday Letters?
A: Ted Hughes
177. Q: Who wrote The Hawk in the Rain?
A: Ted Hughes
178. Q: Who authored Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow?
A: Ted Hughes
179. Q: Who wrote Death of a Salesman?
A: Arthur Miller
180. Q: Who authored The Crucible?
A: Arthur Miller
181. Q: Who wrote A View from the Bridge?
A: Arthur Miller
182. Q: Who authored Long Day’s Journey into Night?
A: Eugene O’Neill
183. Q: Who wrote Mourning Becomes Electra?
A: Eugene O’Neill
184. Q: Who authored The Iceman Cometh?
A: Eugene O’Neill
185. Q: Who wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A: Edward Albee
186. Q: Who authored A Delicate Balance?
A: Edward Albee
187. Q: Who wrote Seascape?
A: Edward Albee
188. Q: Who authored The Glass Menagerie?
A: Tennessee Williams
189. Q: Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
A: Tennessee Williams
190. Q: Who authored Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
A: Tennessee Williams
191. Q: Who wrote Orlando: A Biography?
A: Virginia Woolf
192. Q: Who authored Mrs. Dalloway?
A: Virginia Woolf
193. Q: Who wrote To the Lighthouse?
A: Virginia Woolf
194. Q: Who authored A Room of One’s Own?
A: Virginia Woolf
195. Q: Who wrote The Waves?
A: Virginia Woolf
196. Q: Who authored Between the Acts?
A: Virginia Woolf
197. Q: Who wrote Jacob’s Room?
A: Virginia Woolf
198. Q: Who authored Night and Day?
A: Virginia Woolf
199. Q: Who wrote The Voyage Out?
A: Virginia Woolf
200. Q: Who authored Flush: A Biography?
A: Virginia Woolf
201. Q: Who wrote The Handmaid’s Tale?
A: Margaret Atwood
202. Q: Who authored Oryx and Crake?
A: Margaret Atwood
203. Q: Who wrote The Blind Assassin?
A: Margaret Atwood
204. Q: Who authored Cat’s Eye?
A: Margaret Atwood
205. Q: Who wrote Alias Grace?
A: Margaret Atwood
206. Q: Who authored Surfacing?
A: Margaret Atwood
207. Q: Who wrote The Robber Bride?
A: Margaret Atwood
208. Q: Who authored MaddAddam?
A: Margaret Atwood
209. Q: Who wrote Possession: A Romance?
A: A. S. Byatt
210. Q: Who authored The Children’s Book?
A: A. S. Byatt
211. Q: Who wrote Angels & Demons?
A: Dan Brown
212. Q: Who authored The Da Vinci Code?
A: Dan Brown
213. Q: Who wrote Inferno (modern novel)?
A: Dan Brown
214. Q: Who authored The Lost Symbol?
A: Dan Brown
215. Q: Who wrote Origin?
A: Dan Brown
216. Q: Who authored Digital Fortress?
A: Dan Brown
217. Q: Who wrote Deception Point?
A: Dan Brown
218. Q: Who authored American Gods?
A: Neil Gaiman
219. Q: Who wrote Coraline?
A: Neil Gaiman
220. Q: Who authored The Graveyard Book?
A: Neil Gaiman
221. Q: Who wrote Stardust?
A: Neil Gaiman
222. Q: Who authored Neverwhere?
A: Neil Gaiman
223. Q: Who wrote Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)?
A: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
224. Q: Who authored Sandman (graphic novel series)?
A: Neil Gaiman
225. Q: Who wrote Discworld series?
A: Terry Pratchett
226. Q: Who authored Small Gods?
A: Terry Pratchett
227. Q: Who wrote Mort?
A: Terry Pratchett
228. Q: Who authored Guards! Guards!?
A: Terry Pratchett
229. Q: Who wrote Hogfather?
A: Terry Pratchett
230. Q: Who authored Going Postal?
A: Terry Pratchett
231. Q: Who wrote Thief of Time?
A: Terry Pratchett
232. Q: Who authored The Colour of Magic?
A: Terry Pratchett
233. Q: Who wrote The Light Fantastic?
A: Terry Pratchett
234. Q: Who authored Equal Rites?
A: Terry Pratchett
235. Q: Who wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
A: Stieg Larsson
236. Q: Who authored The Girl Who Played with Fire?
A: Stieg Larsson
237. Q: Who wrote The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest?
A: Stieg Larsson
238. Q: Who authored The Girl in the Spider’s Web (continuation by David Lagercrantz)?
A: David Lagercrantz
239. Q: Who wrote The Shining?
A: Stephen King
240. Q: Who authored Carrie?
A: Stephen King
241. Q: Who wrote It?
A: Stephen King
242. Q: Who authored Misery?
A: Stephen King
243. Q: Who wrote Pet Sematary?
A: Stephen King
244. Q: Who authored Doctor Sleep?
A: Stephen King
245. Q: Who wrote 11/22/63?
A: Stephen King
246. Q: Who authored The Green Mile?
A: Stephen King
247. Q: Who wrote The Stand?
A: Stephen King
248. Q: Who authored Salem’s Lot?
A: Stephen King
249. Q: Who wrote Under the Dome?
A: Stephen King
250. Q: Who authored The Dark Tower series?
A: Stephen King
251. Q: Who wrote Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones)?
A: George R. R. Martin
252. Q: Who authored A Clash of Kings?
A: George R. R. Martin
253. Q: Who wrote A Storm of Swords?
A: George R. R. Martin
254. Q: Who authored A Feast for Crows?
A: George R. R. Martin
255. Q: Who wrote A Dance with Dragons?
A: George R. R. Martin
256. Q: Who is the author of Fire & Blood?
A: George R. R. Martin
257. Q: Who wrote The Winds of Winter (forthcoming)?
A: George R. R. Martin
258. Q: Who authored Dreamsongs?
A: George R. R. Martin
259. Q: Who wrote Dune?
A: Frank Herbert
260. Q: Who authored Dune Messiah?
A: Frank Herbert
261. Q: Who wrote Children of Dune?
A: Frank Herbert
262. Q: Who authored God Emperor of Dune?
A: Frank Herbert
263. Q: Who wrote Heretics of Dune?
A: Frank Herbert
264. Q: Who authored Chapterhouse: Dune?
A: Frank Herbert
265. Q: Who wrote Neuromancer?
A: William Gibson
266. Q: Who authored Count Zero?
A: William Gibson
267. Q: Who wrote Mona Lisa Overdrive?
A: William Gibson
268. Q: Who authored Pattern Recognition?
A: William Gibson
269. Q: Who wrote Idoru?
A: William Gibson
270. Q: Who authored Spook Country?
A: William Gibson
271. Q: Who wrote Zero History?
A: William Gibson
272. Q: Who authored Agency?
A: William Gibson
273. Q: Who wrote Snow Crash?
A: Neal Stephenson
274. Q: Who authored Cryptonomicon?
A: Neal Stephenson
275. Q: Who wrote Anathem?
A: Neal Stephenson
276. Q: Who authored Seveneves?
A: Neal Stephenson
277. Q: Who wrote The Diamond Age?
A: Neal Stephenson
278. Q: Who authored Reamde?
A: Neal Stephenson
279. Q: Who wrote Fall; or, Dodge in Hell?
A: Neal Stephenson
280. Q: Who authored Termination Shock?
A: Neal Stephenson
281. Q: Who wrote The Hunger Games?
A: Suzanne Collins
282. Q: Who authored Catching Fire?
A: Suzanne Collins
283. Q: Who wrote Mockingjay?
A: Suzanne Collins
284. Q: Who authored The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes?
A: Suzanne Collins
285. Q: Who wrote Divergent?
A: Veronica Roth
286. Q: Who authored Insurgent?
A: Veronica Roth
287. Q: Who wrote Allegiant?
A: Veronica Roth
288. Q: Who authored Carve the Mark?
A: Veronica Roth
289. Q: Who wrote Four: A Divergent Collection?
A: Veronica Roth
290. Q: Who authored Matched?
A: Ally Condie
291. Q: Who wrote Crossed?
A: Ally Condie
292. Q: Who authored Reached?
A: Ally Condie
293. Q: Who wrote Delirium?
A: Lauren Oliver
294. Q: Who authored Pandemonium?
A: Lauren Oliver
295. Q: Who wrote Requiem?
A: Laure
Ln Oliver
296. Q: Who authored Before I Fall?
A: Lauren Oliver
297. Q: Who wrote Rooms?
A: Lauren Oliver
298. Q: Who authored Replica?
A: Lauren Oliver
299. Q: Who wrote Broken Things?
A: Lauren Oliver
300. Q: Who authored Vanishing Girls?
A: Lauren Oliver
301. Who wrote Brave New World?
Aldous Huxley
302. Which Russian author wrote Doctor Zhivago?
Boris Pasternak
303. Who created the detective character Philip Marlowe?
Raymond Chandler
304. Which writer is associated with the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”?
George Orwell
305. Who wrote The Diary of a Young Girl?
Anne Frank
306. Who is the author of Gone with the Wind?
Margaret Mitchell
307. Which Indian-born writer wrote Midnight’s Children?
Salman Rushdie
308. Who created the character Hercule Poirot?
Agatha Christie
309. Who wrote the play The Cherry Orchard?
Anton Chekhov
310. Which American poet wrote The Raven?
Edgar Allan Poe
311. Who authored The Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
312. Who is the writer of The Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
313. Which playwright wrote Waiting for Godot?
Samuel Beckett
314. Who is the author of Lolita?
Vladimir Nabokov
315. Who created the fantasy world of Narnia?
C.S. Lewis
316. Which Nobel Prize-winning writer authored One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
317. Who is the author of The Alchemist?
Paulo Coelho
318. Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
319. Which author wrote A Farewell to Arms?
Ernest Hemingway
320. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
321. Which German author wrote Faust?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
322. Who created the detective character Inspector Maigret?
Georges Simenon
323. Who wrote The Sound and the Fury?
William Faulkner
324. Which Nigerian writer authored Things Fall Apart?
Chinua Achebe
325. Who is the author of Candide?
Voltaire
326. Who wrote the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire?
George R.R. Martin
327. Who authored The Stranger (L’Étranger)?
Albert Camus
328. Who is the writer of The Brothers Karamazov?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
329. Which American author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
330. Who wrote The Portrait of a Lady?
Henry James
331. Who is the author of Beloved?
Toni Morrison
332. Who wrote The Jungle Book?
Rudyard Kipling
333. Who is the author of The Trial?
Franz Kafka
334. Who wrote The Idiot?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
335. Which Chilean poet won the Nobel Prize in 1971?
Pablo Neruda
336. Who is the author of Slaughterhouse-Five?
Kurt Vonnegut
337. Who wrote The Age of Innocence?
Edith Wharton
338. Who is the author of Around the World in Eighty Days?
Jules Verne
339. Which English poet wrote Paradise Lost?
John Milton
340. Who authored David Copperfield?
Charles Dickens
341. Who is the writer of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
Victor Hugo
342. Who wrote The Old Curiosity Shop?
Charles Dickens
343. Who is the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
D.H. Lawrence
344. Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Mark Twain
345. Who created the detective character Miss Marple?
Agatha Christie
346. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
Oscar Wilde
347. Who authored North and South?
Elizabeth Gaskell
348. Who is the author of The Wind in the Willows?
Kenneth Grahame
349. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
350. Which French writer authored Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)?
Charles Baudelaire
351. Who wrote The Little Prince?
Antoine de Saint Exupery
352. Who is the author of Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck
353. Which English author wrote Wuthering Heights?
Emily Bronte
354. Who wrote Jane Eyre?
Charlotte Bronte
355. Which American novelist wrote Moby-Dick?
Herman Melville
356. Who is the author of The Bell Jar?
Sylvia Plath
357. Who wrote Catch-22?
Joseph Heller
358. Which author created The Three Musketeers?
Alexandre Dumas
359. Who is the author of The Call of the Wild?
Jack London
360. Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?
James Fenimore Cooper
361. Which English poet wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
362. Who authored The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
363. Who wrote Persuasion?
Jane Austen
364. Who is the author of Sons and Lovers?
D.H. Lawrence
365. Who wrote The Tale of Genji (world’s first novel)?
Murasaki Shikibu
366. Which American author wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Ernest Hemingway
367. Who authored Invisible Man?
Ralph Ellison
368. Who wrote Death of a Salesman?
Arthur Miller
369. Who is the author of Oedipus Rex?
Sophocles
370. Who created the character Tarzan?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
371. Which Irish author wrote Dracula?
Bram Stoker
372. Who wrote Far from the Madding Crowd?
Thomas Hardy
373. Who is the author of The Good Earth?
Pearl S. Buck
374. Who wrote The Hobbit?
J.R.R. Tolkien
375. Which playwright wrote The Tempest?
William Shakespeare
376. Who authored A Room of One’s Own?
Virginia Woolf
377. Who is the author of The Adventures of Pinocchio?
Carlo Collodi
378. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilyich?
Leo Tolstoy
379. Which poet wrote Leaves of Grass?
Walt Whitman
380. Who authored Cry, the Beloved Country?
Alan Paton
381. Who wrote The Red and the Black?
Stendhal
382. Which poet is known as the “Bard of Avon”?
William Shakespeare
383. Who is the author of The Prince?
Niccolò Machiavelli
384. Who wrote The Trial of Socrates?
Plato
385. Which Greek epic poet wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Homer
386. Who authored The Social Contract?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
387. Who is the author of Das Kapital?
Karl Marx
388. Who wrote Don Juan?
Lord Byron
389. Who is the author of The Second Sex?
Simone de Beauvoir
390. Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith
391. Which English novelist wrote Vanity Fair?
William Makepeace Thackeray
392. Who authored The Golden Notebook?
Doris Lessing
393. Who wrote Kim?
Rudyard Kipling
394. Who is the author of Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time)?
Marcel Proust
395. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
Joseph Conrad
396. Which Indian author wrote The Guide?
R.K. Narayan
397. Who is the author of The Satanic Verses?
Salman Rushdie
398. Who wrote The House of the Spirits?
Isabel Allende
399. Which E
nglish poet wrote She Walks in Beauty?
Lord Byron
400. Who authored The God of Small Things?
Arundhati Roy
401. Who wrote The Time Machine?
H.G. Wells
402. Who is the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
John Bunyan
403. Which American author wrote Little Women?
Louisa May Alcott
404. Who authored The French Lieutenant’s Woman?
John Fowles
405. Who wrote The Cider House Rules?
John Irving
406. Which Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
407. Who is the author of Doctor Faustus?
Christopher Marlowe
408. Who wrote A Passage to India?
E.M. Forster
409. Which French author wrote Madame Bovary?
Gustave Flaubert
410. Who authored The Sound of Music (memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)?
Maria von Trapp
411. Who wrote The Trial?
Franz Kafka
412. Who is the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four?
George Orwell
413. Which American author wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
414. Who authored The Tin Drum?
Gunter Grass
315. Who wrote Lady Susan?
Jane Austen
416. Which author created Paddington Bear?
Michael Bond
417. Who is the author of Arms and the Man?
George Bernard Shaw
418. Who wrote Steppenwolf?
Hermann Hesse
419. Which American author created the character Holden Caulfield?
J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
420. Who authored Siddhartha?
Hermann Hesse
421. Who wrote The Rainbow?
D.H. Lawrence
422. Which English poet wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn?
John Keats
423. Who authored The Prince and the Pauper?
Mark Twain
424. Who wrote The Turn of the Screw?
Henry James
425. Which author wrote The Remains of the Day?
Kazuo Ishiguro
426. Who is the author of A Dance to the Music of Time?
Anthony Powell
427. Who wrote The Outsiders?
S.E. Hinton
428. Who authored Blindness?
José Saramago
429. Who wrote The Bluest Eye?
Toni Morrison
430. Which French author wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
Alexandre Dumas
431. Who is the author of Rob Roy?
Sir Walter Scott
432. Who wrote The Sea, The Sea?
Iris Murdoch
433. Who authored The Glass Menagerie?
Tennessee Williams
434. Who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces?
John Kennedy Toole
435. Who is the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
436. Who wrote The Beautiful and Damned?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
437. Who authored Under the Volcano?
Malcolm Lowry
438. Who wrote The Joy Luck Club?
Amy Tan
439. Which Indian author wrote Train to Pakistan?
Khushwant Singh
430. Who authored The Mayor of Casterbridge?
Thomas Hardy
431. Who wrote Eugene Onegin?
Alexander Pushkin
432. Which French author wrote Journey to the End of the Night?
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
433. Who is the author of The Awakening?
Kate Chopin
434. Who wrote The Naked and the Dead?
Norman Mailer
435. Who authored The Snow Leopard?
Peter Matthiessen
436. Who wrote The Color Purple?
Alice Walker
437. Which author wrote The English Patient?
Michael Ondaatje
438. Who authored The Poisonwood Bible?
Barbara Kingsolver
439. Who wrote Roots?
Alex Haley
440. Who is the author of The Handmaid’s Tale?
Margaret Atwood
441. Who wrote The Golden Bowl?
Henry James
442. Who is the author of The Mill on the Floss?
George Eliot
443. Who wrote The Book Thief?
Markus Zusak
444. Which American author wrote Native Son?
Richard Wright
445. Who authored The Good Soldier?
Ford Madox Ford
446. Who wrote The Pickwick Papers?
Charles Dickens
447. Who is the author of Atlas Shrugged?
Ayn Rand
448. Who wrote Anthem?
Ayn Rand
449. Which Canadian author wrote Life of Pi?
Yann Martel
450. Who authored The Heart is a Lonely Hunter?
Carson McCullers
451. Who wrote The Secret Garden?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
452. Who is the author of The Color of Magic?
Terry Pratchett
453. Who wrote The Silmarillion?
J.R.R. Tolkien
454. Which American author created the character Tom Sawyer?
Mark Twain
455. Who authored Catch Me If You Can (autobiography)?
Frank Abagnale Jr.
456. Who wrote The Road?
Cormac McCarthy
457. Who is the author of Blood Meridian?
Cormac McCarthy
458. Which French author wrote La Comédie Humaine?
Honoré de Balzac
459. Who authored Dead Souls?
Nikolai Gogol
460. Who wrote The Overcoat?
Nikolai Gogol
461. Who is the author of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Robert Louis Stevenson
462. Who wrote Treasure Island?
Robert Louis Stevenson
463. Which American author wrote Song of Solomon?
Toni Morrison
464. Who authored Bel-Ami?
Guy de Maupassant
465. Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
Charles Dickens
466. Who is the author of Oliver Twist?
Charles Dickens
467. Who wrote Bleak House?
Charles Dickens
468. Which Irish author wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Oscar Wilde
469. Who authored A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
James Joyce
470. Who wrote Finnegans Wake?
James Joyce
471. Who is the author of Ulysses?
James Joyce
472. Which Russian writer wrote The Master and Margarita?
Mikhail Bulgakov
473. Who authored War with the Newts?
Karel Capek
474. Who wrote Metamorphoses?
Ovid
475. Which Roman philosopher wrote Meditations?
Marcus Aurelius
476. Who is the author of The Histories?
Herodotus
477. Who wrote The Peloponnesian War?
Thucydides
478. Who is the author of The Republic?
Plato
479. Who wrote Nicomachean Ethics?
Aristotle
480. Which Roman poet wrote Aeneid?
Virgil
481. Who authored Ars Poetica?
Horace
482. Who wrote Annals and Histories?
Tacitus
483. Who is the author of On the Sublime?
Longinus
484. Who wrote Phaedrus?
Plato
485. Which Greek tragedian wrote Medea?
Euripides
486. Who authored Prometheus Bound?
Aeschylus
487. Who wrote Lysistrata?
Aristophanes
488. Who is the author of Clouds?
Aristophanes
489. Who wrote Poetics?
Aristotle
490. Who authored Politics?
Aristotle
491. Who wrote The Federalist Papers (with Hamilton & Jay)?
James Madison
492. Who is the author of Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
493. Who wrote Rights of Man?
Thomas Paine
494. Who authored Leviathan?
Thomas Hobbes
495. Who wrote Two Treatises of Government?
John Locke
496. Who is the author of Candide?
Voltaire
497. Who wrote Letters on England?
Voltaire
498. Who authored Confessions?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
499. Who wrote Emile, or On Education?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
500. Who is the author of Democracy in America?
Alexis de Tocqueville
501. Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws?
Montesquieu
502. Who authored Summa Theologica?
Thomas Aquinas
503. Who wrote The City of God?
St. Augustine
504. Who is the author of Paradise Regained?
John Milton
505. Who wrote Areopagitica?
John Milton
506. Who authored Kubla Khan?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
507. Who wrote Ode to the West Wind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
508. Who is the author of Adonais?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
509. Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
510. Who is the author of Endymion?
John Keats
511. Who wrote La Vita Nuova?
Dante Alighieri
512. Who authored Orlando Furioso?
Ludovico Ariosto
513. Who wrote Jerusalem?
William Blake
514. Who is the author of Songs of Innocence and Experience?
William Blake
515. Who wrote Don Quixote?
Miguel de Cervantes
516. Who authored The Exemplary Novels?
Miguel de Cervantes
517. Who wrote La Galatea?
Miguel de Cervantes
518. Who is the author of The Praise of Folly?
Desiderius Erasmus
519. Who wrote Utopia?
Thomas More
520. Who authored Doctor Zhivago?
Boris Pasternak
521. Who wrote Fathers and Sons?
Ivan Turgenev
522. Who is the author of Demons (The Possessed)?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
523. Who wrote Notes from Underground?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
524. Who authored The Gambler?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
525. Who wrote Resurrection?
Leo Tolstoy
526. Who is the author of Hadji Murat?
Leo Tolstoy
527. Who wrote Anna Karenina?
Leo Tolstoy
528. Who authored Sevastopol Sketches?
Leo Tolstoy
529. Who wrote The Nose?
Nikolai Gogol
530. Who is the author of The Inspector General?
Nikolai Gogol
531. Who wrote The Overcoat?
Nikolai Gogol
532. Who authored Dead Souls?
Nikolai Gogol
533. Who wrote Eugene Onegin?
Alexander Pushkin
534. Who is the author of Boris Godunov?
Alexander Pushkin
535. Who wrote The Queen of Spades?
Alexander Pushkin
536. Who authored Ruslan and Ludmila?
Alexander Pushkin
537. Who wrote We (dystopian novel)?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
538. Who is the author of And Quiet Flows the Don?
Mikhail Sholokhov
539.Who wrote Life and Fate?
Vasily Grossman
540. Who authored Cancer Ward?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
541. Who wrote The Gulag Archipelago?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
542. Who is the author of August 1914?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
543. Who wrote The First Circle?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
544. Who authored Arch of Triumph?
Erich Maria Remarque
545. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
Erich Maria Remarque
546. Who is the author of The Black Obelisk?
Erich Maria Remarque
547. Who wrote Three Comrades?
Erich Maria Remarque
548. Who authored The Clown?
Heinrich Boll
549. Who wrote Billiards at Half-Past Nine?
Heinrich Boll
550. Who is the author of Group Portrait with Lady?
Heinrich Boll
551. Who wrote The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum?
Heinrich Boll
552. Who authored Berlin Alexanderplatz?
Alfred Doblin
553. Who wrote Steppenwolf?
Hermann Hesse
554. Who is the author of Narcissus and Goldmund?
Hermann Hesse
555. Who wrote The Glass Bead Game?
Hermann Hesse
556. Who authored Demian?
Hermann Hesse
557. Who wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
Friedrich Nietzsche
558. Who is the author of Beyond Good and Evil?
Friedrich Nietzsche
559. Who wrote Ecce Homo?
Friedrich Nietzsche
560. Who authored The Birth of Tragedy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
561. Who wrote Being and Time?
Martin Heidegger
562. Who is the author of Being and Nothingness?
Jean-Paul Sartre
563. Who wrote No Exit?
Jean-Paul Sartre
564. Who authored Nausea?
Jean-Paul Sartre
565. Who wrote Critique of Pure Reason?
Immanuel Kant
566. Who is the author of Critique of Practical Reason?
Immanuel Kant
567. Who wrote Critique of Judgment?
Immanuel Kant
568. Who authored Phenomenology of Spirit?
G.W.F. Hegel
569. Who wrote The Science of Logic?
G.W.F. Hegel
570. Who is the author of Lectures on Aesthetics?
G.W.F. Hegel
571. Who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?
Max Weber
572. Who authored The Theory of the Leisure Class?
Thorstein Veblen
573. Who wrote Das Kapital?
Karl Marx
574. Who is the author of The Communist Manifesto (with Engels)?
Karl Marx
575. Who wrote Anti Duhring?
Friedrich Engels
576. Who authored The Condition of the Working Class in England?
Friedrich Engels
577. Who wrote The Prince?
Niccolò Machiavelli
578. Who is the author of Discourses on Livy?
Niccolò Machiavelli
579. Who wrote On War?
Carl von Clausewitz
580. Who authored The Art of War?
Sun Tzu
581. Who wrote The Book of Five Rings?
Miyamoto Musashi
582. Who is the author of Hagakure?
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
583. Who wrote The Pillow Book?
Sei Shōnagon
584. Who authored The Narrow Road to the Deep North (poetry)?
Matsuo Basho
585. Who wrote Snow Country?
Yasunari Kawabata
586. Who is the author of The Sound of the Mountain?
Yasunari Kawabata
587. Who wrote Thousand Cranes?
Yasunari Kawabata
588. Who authored The Old Capital?
Yasunari Kawabata
589. Who wrote The Silent Cry?
Kenzaburo Oe
590. Who is the author of A Personal Matter?
Kenzaburo Oe
591. Who wrote Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids?
Kenzaburo Oe
592. Who authored The Changeling?
Kenzaburo Oe
593. Who wrote Norwegian Wood?
Haruki Murakami
594. Who is the author of Kafka on the Shore?
Haruki Murakami
595. Who wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
Haruki Murakami
596. Who authored - 1 Q 84?
Haruki Murakami
597. Who wrote Men Without Women?
Haruki Murakami
598. Who is the author of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running?
Haruki Murakami
599. Who wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World?
Haruki Murakami
600. Who authored Dance Dance Dance?
Haruki Murakami
601. Who wrote The Ministry of Utmost Happiness?
Arundhati Roy
602. Who is the author of Midnight’s Children?
Salman Rushdie
603. Who wrote Shame?
Salman Rushdie
604. Who authored The Moor’s Last Sigh?
Salman Rushdie
605. Who wrote Joseph Anton?
Salman Rushdie
606. Who is the author of The Enchantress of Florence?
Salman Rushdie
607. Who wrote Quichotte?
Salman Rushdie
608. Who authored Haroun and the Sea of Stories?
Salman Rushdie
609. Who wrote Victory City?
Salman Rushdie
610. Who is the author of In Custody?
Anita Desai
611. Who wrote Clear Light of Day?
Anita Desai
612. Who authored Fasting, Feasting?
Anita Desai
613. Who wrote The Village by the Sea?
Anita Desai
614. Who is the author of Fire on the Mountain?
Anita Desai
615. Who wrote Games at Twilight?
Anita Desai
616. Who authored Voices in the City?
Anita Desai
617. Who wrote Cry, the Peacock?
Anita Desai
618. Who is the author of The White Tiger?
Aravind Adiga
619. Who wrote Last Man in Tower?
Aravind Adiga
620. Who authored Selection Day?
Aravind Adiga
621. Who wrote Between the Assassinations?
Aravind Adiga
622. Who is the author of The Inheritance of Loss?
Kiran Desai
623. Who wrote Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard?
Kiran Desai
624. Who authored An Equal Music?
Vikram Seth
625. Who wrote The Golden Gate?
Vikram Seth
626. Who is the author of A Suitable Boy?
Vikram Seth
627. Who wrote Two Lives?
Vikram Seth
628. Who authored The Hungry Tide?
Amitav Ghosh
629. Who wrote The Glass Palace?
Amitav Ghosh
620. Who is the author of Sea of Poppies?
Amitav Ghosh
621. Who wrote River of Smoke?
Amitav Ghosh
622. Who authored Flood of Fire?
Amitav Ghosh
623. Who wrote Gun Island?
Amitav Ghosh
624. Who is the author of The Shadow Lines?
Amitav Ghosh
625. Who wrote The Calcutta Chromosome?
Amitav Ghosh
626. Who authored Circle of Reason?
Amitav Ghosh
627. Who wrote Unaccustomed Earth?
Jhumpa Lahiri
628. Who is the author of Interpreter of Maladies?
Jhumpa Lahiri
629. Who wrote The Namesake?
Jhumpa Lahiri
630. Who authored The Lowland?
Jhumpa Lahiri
