Writer’s Block

Question: What was George Orwell’s real name?

Answer: George Orwell is a pen name. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair, and he was born in 1903 at Montihari in Bengal, India, where his father was a minor British official.

Question: Which British military hero wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

Answer: T.E. Lawrence, also called "Lawrence of Arabia," wrote a memoir called Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Question: Which Spanish writer died on the same day as William Shakespeare?

Answer: Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare both died on April 23, 1616.

Question: About how many novels did Alexandre Dumas the elder write?

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

Question: Which of these writers lived in Germany?

Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the dominant figure in German literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is usually considered to be the greatest of all German writers.

Question: Which of these authors was the first to use a typewriter?

Answer: Mark Twain was the first to use the typewriter, which was invented in the mid-19th century.

Question: Whose first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, appeared in 1937?

Answer: The author Theodor Seuss Geisel (1901–94) is better known to readers as Dr. Seuss. He wrote many children’s books.

Question: What name was given to the generation of writers Ernest Hemingway belonged to?

Answer: Gertrude Stein, the American writer, called Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and their contemporaries the lost generation.