📚 Literary Legends! Test Your Author Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia!

How well do you know the world's most famous authors and their works? Challenge yourself with these fascinating literary questions!

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Easy Level

  1. Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?
    Answer: William Shakespeare
  2. Which author created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
    Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. Who wrote the 'Harry Potter' series?
    Answer: J.K. Rowling
  4. Which author wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
    Answer: Jane Austen
  5. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
    Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. Which writer penned '1984'?
    Answer: George Orwell
  7. Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
    Answer: Harper Lee
  8. Which author created the character Huckleberry Finn?
    Answer: Mark Twain
  9. Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
    Answer: J.D. Salinger
  10. Which author wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
    Answer: Herman Melville
  11. Who is the author of 'The Hobbit'?
    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
  12. Which writer created the character Jane Eyre?
    Answer: Charlotte Brontë
  13. Who wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?
    Answer: Mark Twain
  14. Which author penned 'Little Women'?
    Answer: Louisa May Alcott
  15. Who wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
    Answer: Lewis Carroll

Medium Level

  1. Which author wrote 'Brave New World'?
    Answer: Aldous Huxley
  2. Who created the fantasy world of Middle-earth?
    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
    Answer: Leo Tolstoy
  4. Who wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
    Answer: Oscar Wilde
  5. Which author penned 'Frankenstein'?
    Answer: Mary Shelley
  6. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
    Answer: Ernest Hemingway
  7. Which American poet wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?
    Answer: Walt Whitman
  8. Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?
    Answer: Emily Brontë
  9. Which author created the character Atticus Finch?
    Answer: Harper Lee
  10. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
    Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
  11. Which author penned 'Crime and Punishment'?
    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
  12. Who wrote 'The Bell Jar'?
    Answer: Sylvia Plath
  13. Which author created the character Jay Gatsby?
    Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  14. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
  15. Which playwright wrote 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
    Answer: Tennessee Williams
  16. Who wrote 'The Sound and the Fury'?
    Answer: William Faulkner
  17. Which author penned 'The Canterbury Tales'?
    Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
  18. Who wrote 'Beloved'?
    Answer: Toni Morrison
  19. Which author created the character Holden Caulfield?
    Answer: J.D. Salinger
  20. Who wrote 'The Divine Comedy'?
    Answer: Dante Alighieri

Hard Level

  1. Which author wrote 'In Search of Lost Time'?
    Answer: Marcel Proust
  2. Who wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. Which author penned 'The Waste Land'?
    Answer: T.S. Eliot
  4. Who wrote 'Ulysses'?
    Answer: James Joyce
  5. Which author created the character Raskolnikov?
    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. Who wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
    Answer: Franz Kafka
  7. Which author penned 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'?
    Answer: Milan Kundera
  8. Who wrote 'The Second Sex'?
    Answer: Simone de Beauvoir
  9. Which author created the character Emma Bovary?
    Answer: Gustave Flaubert
  10. Who wrote 'The Stranger'?
    Answer: Albert Camus
  11. Which author penned 'Don Quixote'?
    Answer: Miguel de Cervantes
  12. Who wrote 'The Aeneid'?
    Answer: Virgil
  13. Which author created the character Gregor Samsa?
    Answer: Franz Kafka
  14. Who wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
    Answer: Homer
  15. Which author penned 'The Trial'?
    Answer: Franz Kafka