Name That Author

Question: Who wrote Inferno and the other books of The Divine Comedy?

Answer: Dante Alighieri, the medieval Florentine writer, wrote The Divine Comedy early in the 14th century.

Question: Who wrote Lord of the Flies?

Answer: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, published in 1954, is about what happens to civilization in times of stress.

Question: Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?

Answer: Adam Smith, a Scottish economist, published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations—usually shortened to The Wealth of Nations—in 1776.

Question: Who wrote Don Quixote?

Answer: The first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605, when Miguel de Cervantes was 57 years old.

Question: Who wrote Dracula?

Answer: The most famous vampire story in world literature, Dracula was written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847–1912) and published in 1897.

Question: Who wrote Animal Farm?

Answer: George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a devastating satire of Stalinism. It was published in 1945.

Question: Who wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

Answer: Irish novelist James Joyce wrote the first version of his autobiographical Portrait of the Artist when he was just 22.

Question: Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

Answer: First performed in 1594, William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is one of literature’s greatest love stories.

Question: Who wrote Brave New World?

Answer: Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World in 1932. It is his best-known work.