From Moby-Dick to Space Odysseys

Question: Who was the author of the Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755?

Answer: Samuel Johnson was the famed author of Dictionary of the English Languages, one of the first efforts to describe the vocabulary of English.

Question: Who wrote James and the Giant Peach?

Answer: James and the Giant Peach is one of many books by the British writer Roald Dahl.

Question: Who is the author of Poor Richard’s Almanack?

Answer: The American revolutionary leader’s book Poor Richard’s Almanack was a best-seller in the colonial period.

Question: Who wrote The Little Prince?

Answer: The Little Prince, about a visitor to Earth from a distant star, was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1943.

Question: Who wrote The Song of Hiawatha?

Answer: The epic poem The Song of Hiawatha is by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Question: Who wrote a novel about a world of Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania?

Answer: In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell writes of a world divided into three huge, warring states: Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania.

Question: Who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Answer: Mark Twain is the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and many other beloved novels.

Question: Which of these authors wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, at first as a short story and then as a novel.