Children's: What children's author tapped out Circus Shoes, Movie Shoes, Theatre Shoes, Dancing Shoes and Ballet Shoes?
Classics: What novel sold the most copies during the 1970s--Jaws, The Godfather, or Love Story?
Non-Fiction: What former law clerk to Clarence Thomas penned Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America?
Book Club: Whose book Child of God did the New York Times call "the greatest necrophiliac novel ever"?
Authors: What Mississippian tore up the only copy of her short story "Petrified Man" after one too many rejection slips, then later rewrote it from memory?
Book Bag: What fictional spy was based on decorated Scottish World War II commando Patrick Dalzel-Job?
Okay, mostly guessing:
ReplyDeleteChildren's author: Noel Streatfeild
Classics: Love Story
Nonfiction: Glenn Beck?
Authors: Flannery O'Conner
Book Bag: James Bond
BB must be James Bond. The others...I dunno.
ReplyDeleteWell, Noel Streatfeild and James Bond, but that's it.
ReplyDeleteI just know Streatfeild, and only because of Meg Ryan in "You've Got Mail." Shameful. :)
ReplyDeleteI only knew one, but it was the one I'm most glad I could get. I say it was probably Jaws as the bestseller. I remember reading it the summer it came out.
ReplyDeleteChildren's: Noel Streatfeild
ReplyDeleteThat's all I've got.
Tough ones!
ReplyDeleteI don't know any of these. Great questions as always! I love your literary trivia.
ReplyDeleteChildren's: Noel Streatfeild
ReplyDeleteClassics: The Godfather
Non-Fiction: Laura Ingraham
Book Club: Cormac McCarthy
Authors: Eudora Welty
Book Bag: James Bond
These were tough ones, weren't they? Sounds like I need to watch You've Got Mail again, because I don't remember a Streatfeild reference!