sylvie, if you'd like to try a few more quizzes on books and authors, check my profile. I've got two on YA authors, one on John Green books, one on fantasy authors, and one for classic novels by plot (which is a sequel to someone else's quiz on the same idea).
don't worry, I got 8 and I read a lot. From the ones I didn't know, 9 were from the US, 4 British. This quiz is biased to literature in English. At least I want to think that's why I got so few
Mary, Maya... considering I have no idea who it is, I find "Mary" a decent guess. Missed: Angelou, Wharton, McEwan and Cather who I haven't heard about.
google some of her poetry--"Why The Caged Bird Sings." Such beautiful poetry. During the Clinton Administraton, I think she was the Poet Emeritus or something...she was invited to read her poetry at the Inauguration. I think the first African American poet to achieve any fame crossover... And Oprah was friends and gave her much publicity. Very sad and heartfelt stuff...she was amazing. She only died in the last few years. I was surprised to see Dean Koontz of all people but not Margaret Atwood, or Ann Tyler...or Alice Walker, who wrote The Color Purple. And most amazing of all, John Steinbeck. Add Dickens, Twain, DuMaurier and you have another quiz! LOL
Sometimes even in English. From my nearest bookshelf: Chimamanda Adichie, Aravind Adiga, Romesh Gunesekera, V.S.Naipal (though I guess he's North American on Jetpunk), Vikram Seth.
15/24. And I've read most of these books at one time or another. But for authors such as Flaubert and Chaucer I never actually paid attention to their first names on the jackets of their books. Need to start paying closer attention to mundane things!
The top 7 are internationally known though (but indeed i didnt know the others..)
Edit:besides huxley and Vonnegut (tried kirk.. sounds nearly the same) and totally read over gaiman which i knew (and like ! Got introduced to him by the discworldseries)
Quizzy, might be time to stop taking quizzes and read a good book or two.
Fun quiz! Thanks!
Edit:besides huxley and Vonnegut (tried kirk.. sounds nearly the same) and totally read over gaiman which i knew (and like ! Got introduced to him by the discworldseries)
I thought Koontz was an artist but I think I am thinking Kooning.