Who Wrote It?

Question: Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet and diplomat, wrote The Canterbury Tales in about 1390.

Question: Who wrote The Three Musketeers?

Answer: The French writer Alexandre Dumas, pére (1802–1870) wrote 277 novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Question: Who wrote the first detective story?

Answer: Poe’s "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is considered the first detective story. Its detective, C. Auguste Dupin, also appears in two later stories, including "The Purloined Letter."

Question: Who wrote Notre-Dame de Paris?

Answer: Victor Hugo’s beloved Notre-Dame de Paris is the tragic tale of Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of the great cathedral. It was published in 1831.

Question: Who wrote The Da Vinci Code?

Answer: Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code, a popular mystery novel.

Question: Who wrote The First Circle?

Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist, wrote The First Circle in 1968. The book made him internationally famous.

Question: Who is the author of The Two Gentlemen of Verona?

Answer: William Shakespeare wrote the play The Two Gentlemen of Verona in about 1592. It is a comedy.

Question: Who wrote Moby-Dick?

Answer: Herman Melville, the American novelist, published Moby-Dick in 1851. It was not successful in his lifetime, but came to be seen as a classic in the 20th century.

Question: Who wrote The Divine Comedy?

Answer: Dante, an Italian of noble descent, wrote The Divine Comedy, a poem in 100 sections, called cantos, between 1308 and 1321. Each canto is between 136 and 151 lines long.