Children's: What agency, according to a Lucy Frank book, controls everything from screaming babies to unopenable pistachio nuts?
Classics: What statesman's six-volume series The Second World War opens with The Gathering Storm?
Non-Fiction: What 20th-century muckraker spent the latter years of his life investigating ancient Athens for his book The Trial of Socrates?
Book Club: What city is under siege in 1204 by the knights of the Fourth Crusade, in Umberto Eco's Baudolino?
Authors: What author died of lung cancer at 42, after writing about her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" in Drinking: A Love Story?
Book Bag: What science-fiction author invites others to write about his time-traveling assassin Jerry Cornelius?
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Wow, I only know authors: Carolyn Knapp.
Only two for me this week:
Classics: Winston Churchill
Authors: Carolyn Knapp
Classics: Churchill, that's all I got.
"Smith and Wesson and Me"
Al Roker
Giraldo Rivera
Akron, OH
Michelle Bachmann
Don Cornelius
Carolyn Knapp -- that's it!
Caroline Knapp is the only one I know too! I used to love her columns in the Boston Phoenix. Long live Alice K.
Children's: The Annoyance Bureau
Classics: Winston Churchill
Non-Fiction: I.F. Stone
Book Club: Constantinople
Authors: Carolyn Knapp
Book Bag: Michael Moorcock
This was already a hard one, and I made it harder with my typo on 1204, making it 2104 for a while and misleading some of you into thinking it was SF, making Joe's guess so much more plausible.
I would like to read a children's book with Joe's title, by the way.
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