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Clue	Author	% Correct
He is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era	Charles Dickens	92%
He is a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time	Leo Tolstoy	91%
Her UK sales total in excess of £238 million, making her the best-selling living author in Britain	J.K. Rowling	89%
She is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans	Harriet Beecher Stowe	64%
Her novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children	Harper Lee	63%
He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists	Miguel de Cervantes	60%
He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned	Kurt Vonnegut	59%
He is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers	Victor Hugo	58%
He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp	Fyodor Dostoevsky	50%
He was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance"	Edgar Allan Poe	46%
In 2008, The Times ranked him second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"	George Orwell	36%
His work typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments	Franz Kafka	35%
He is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers	Dante Alighieri	17%
The New York Times called him "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream"	Ray Bradbury	15%
She is a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations	Flannery O'Connor	7%

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