The Life and Works of English Authors

Question: Who is the author of Utopia?

Answer: Sir Thomas More, an English cleric, wrote Utopia in the 1500s. He was executed by King Henry VIII.

Question: Which of these characters is not in Alice in Wonderland?

Answer: Peter Rabbit figures in stories by Beatrix Potter, the English writer. Lewis Carroll, another English writer, wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Question: In what year did Charles Dickens die?

Answer: Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870.

Question: What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner?

Answer: In Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol, the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, comes back to haunt Scrooge one Christmas Eve.

Question: Which of these was not written by Virginia Woolf?

Answer: Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. English novelist Virginia Woolf wrote many classic books in the early 20th century.

Question: Which of these English writers was born in France?

Answer: W. Somerset Maugham, the English novelist, was born in France in 1874.

Question: Who was the 19th-century author of novels about England’s social woes?

Answer: In many of his later books, English author Charles Dickens wrote about social problems. His book Hard Times (1854) is about problems faced by factory workers.

Question: Who wrote Tess of the D’Urbervilles?

Answer: Thomas Hardy was a great English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his many novels is Tess of the D’Urbervilles.