Ask a question about an American writer & see if anyone knows the answer w/o using google-Part 2

[red dog 1]

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(Guesses Are Welcome)


1) What was Stephen King's first professional sale? (answered)

2) What was Dan Brown's occupation prior to the release of "The Da Vinci Code"?

3) What was the cause of Tennessee Williams' death? (answered)

4) Who is the best selling American writer still alive?

5) What sport did Tom Wolfe excel in both in high school and college?

6) What American writer/poet wrote a short, short story called "The Kool Aid Wino"? (answered)

7) What famous late night television host wrote 54 books? (answered)

8) What famous writer was Best Man at novelist Richard Farina's wedding? (answered)

9) What writer did Thomas Pynchon dedicate "Gravity's Rainbow" to? (answered)






More questions from Part 1
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[Harker]

1. 6... Charles Bukowski?

5... Tennis?
8... Kerouac?

[red dog 1]

9. Nope, nope & nope

(All good guesses, though)

[Harker]

13. Ow. Ow. Ow.

[red dog 1]

22. Don't feel bad

These threads are supposed to be fun
(most of my guesses are wrong, too)

[Harker]

24. Having lots of fun!

Thanks for the threads, Red.

I never get dispirited.

[Docreed2003]

3. 1). A short story called "The Glass Floor"

I don't remember the magazine he sold it to

[red dog 1]

8. Ding!

He sold it to "Startling Mystery Stories" in 1967

[Haggard Celine]

4. 3 Tennessee Williams's death

I read years ago that he choked to death on the lid of a pill bottle. Don't know if it's true.

[red dog 1]

6. It is true.

[musette_sf]

5. # 7

has to be Steve Allen. Also writer of 1000s of songs.

[red dog 1]

7. Ding!

(I heard that he wrote a song every day)

[GusBob]

10. 4?

Grisham?

[red dog 1]

11. Nope, sorry

(Good guess)

[musette_sf]

12. # 8

is in question # 9

[red dog 1]

15. Ding!

[First Speaker]

14. #4--James Patterson?

...I still can't believe it's *not* Stephen King...

[red dog 1]

16. It's not Stephen King & it's not James Patterson

[red dog 1]

17. What famous writer was a student of Aldous Huxley at Eton College?

(Aldous Huxley taught French at Eton)

[berniesandersmittens]

39. Harper Lee?

[red dog 1]

18. What was the name of Ernest Hemingway's 38 ft fishing boat?

[red dog 1]

19. What was Harlan Ellison's first published writing?

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

20. #6 is Richard Brautigan

(Story is from "Trout Fishing in America&quot

[red dog 1]

21. Ding!

[red dog 1]

23. What was the original title of the novel that became Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

[YoshidaYui]

25. Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park

Name another book of his that became a major motion picture, one only please without looking it up.

[red dog 1]

27. Andromeda Strain?

Did he write that?

[YoshidaYui]

32. He did?

Very good!

[red dog 1]

35. I wasn't sure

(It was a wild guess)

[The Magistrate]

29. The Great Train Robbery

[YoshidaYui]

31. Yes.

Good! He had quite a few movies under his belt including eaters of the dead! He was a very cool and amazing guy!

[The Magistrate]

33. So '13th Warrior' Was His, Ma'am?

That's a pretty good flick.

Most of what we know of Viking life comes from 'visitor's guides' prepared by Moslem merchants embarking on journey to the north.

[YoshidaYui]

34. He wrote the book eaters of the dead which turned out to be

Renamed the 13th warrior. Hell of a movie! I love all of all of his books and read most of them!!

[berniesandersmittens]

40. Congo

[YoshidaYui]

41. EXCELLENT

[red dog 1]

28. What was the title of the story Harlan Ellison wrote about his running away from home to join

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a circus when he was 13?

(Hint: Ellison worked as a "gopher" for the small circus he joined)

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

38. Gopher in the Gilly?

[red dog 1]

44. Ding!

You read that?

[red dog 1]

36. What was Truman Capote's first published story?

(It won the O. Henry Award and it was in a popular magazine)

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

37. Is #9 Richard Farina?

[red dog 1]

43. It is

[UTUSN]

42. How did this hopeless alcoholic manage to produce multiple/iconic works of art?

[red dog 1]

45. After his death, in accordance with his wishes, Hunter S. Thompson's ashes were fired out of a

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canon in a ceremony funded by a famous actor friend.
Who was that friend?

[red dog 1]

46. How many poems by Emily Dickinson were published during her lifetime?

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(approximately)

[red dog 1]

47. Where was Harlan Ellison born?

[red dog 1]

48. What was the name of the rock & roll magazine that Cameron Crowe submitted articles to

while he was still in high school?

[red dog 1]

49. Michael Shea's first published work was a novel in homage to a famous writer, who was that writer?

(It was in 1970)

[red dog 1]

50. What famous writer wrote the Esquire Magazine article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"?

(Considered by many to be one of the greatest celebrity profiles ever written)