Give me the first names of the writers I have listed below and at least one of their books. At least as many as you can come up with, that is. See how well you do. I sort of gave you some clues.
Some great writers of the modern era. A few are still alive; most are not. A few old-timers are thrown in there from the 1500’s, 1700’s, and some more from the 1800’s. I count six who are still living.
Barnes, Boll, Bukowski, Burroughs, Camus, Cervantes, Chekhov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Franzen, Genet, Goethe, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Jackson, James, Joyce, Junger, Kerouac, Koszinski, Mailer, McCarthy, McCullers, Melville, Miller, Nichols, O’Connor, Oates, Palahniuk, Pound, Proulx, Pynchon, Rechy, Roth, Rousseau, Rhys, Schopenhauer, Stein, Sterne, Stevens, Tolstoy, Twain, Wallace, Warren, Waugh, Woolf
Some hints:
When they wrote:
1500’s: Cervantes
1700’s: Goethe, Rousseau, Sterne
1800’s: Chekhov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Hawthorne, James, Melville, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, Twain
1900’s: Barnes, Boll, Bukowski, Burroughs, Camus, Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Franzen, Genet, Hemingway, Jackson, James, Joyce, Junger, Kerouac, Koszinski, Mailer, McCarthy, McCullers, Nichols, O’Connor, Oates, Palahniuk, Pound, Proulx, Pynchon, Rechy, Roth, Rhys, Stein, Stevens, Wallace, Warren, Waugh, Woolf
2000’s: Franzen, McCarthy, Nichols, Oates, Palahniuk, Proulx, Pynchon, Rechy, Wallace
Still around: Franzen, Nichols, Oates, Palahniuk, Proulx, Pynchon, Rechy
Where they came from (typically where they were born)
Dominica (Caribbean): Rhys
Denmark: Schopenhauer
France: Camus, Genet, Rousseau
Germany: Boll, Goethe, Junger
Ireland: Joyce
Poland: Conrad, Koszinski
Russia: Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
Spain: Cervantes
UK: Eliot, Sterne, Waugh, Woolf
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