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Statistics for Greatest American Literature - Authors
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This quiz has been taken 1,733 times
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Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The Great Gatsby (1925) | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 89%
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) | Mark Twain | 89%
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| The Raven (1845) | Edgar Allen Poe | 88%
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| Q.E.D. (1903) | Gertrude Stein | 88%
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| Inherit the Wind (1955) | Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee | 87%
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| To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) | Harper Lee | 86%
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| The Grapes of Wrath (1939) | John Steinbeck | 85%
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| A Farewell to Arms (1929) | Ernest Hemingway | 84%
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| The Catcher in the Rye (1951) | J. D. Salinger | 82%
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| The Scarlet Letter (1850) | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 82%
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| Moby-Dick; or The Whale (1851) | Herman Melville | 79%
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| Little Women (1869) | Louisa May Alcott | 77%
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| Death of a Salesman (1949) | Arthur Miller | 75%
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| Tropic of Cancer (1934) | Henry Miller | 75%
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| Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) | Kurt Vonnegut | 74%
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| The Bell Jar (1963) | Silvia Plath | 73%
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| Fahrenheit 451 (1953) | Ray Bradbury | 72%
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| Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 71%
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| On the Road (1957) | Jack Kerouac | 71%
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| The Call of the Wild (1903) | Jack London | 71%
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| Declaration of Independence (1776) | Thomas Jefferson | 71%
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| Lolita (1955) | Vladimir Nabokov | 70%
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| Leaves of Grass (1855) | Walt Whitman | 69%
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| Atlas Shrugged (1957) | Ayn Rand | 68%
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| Walden (1854) | Henry David Thoreau | 67%
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| A Description of New England, (1616) | John Smith | 64%
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| The Book of Mormon (1830) | Joseph Smith Jr.* | 64%
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| Catch-22 (1961) | Joseph Heller | 63%
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| Gone With the Wind, (1936) | Margaret Mitchell | 63%
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) | Maya Angelou | 63%
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| The Glass Menagerie (1944) | Tennessee Williams | 63%
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| Absalom, Absalom! (1936) | William Faulkner | 61%
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| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) | L. Frank Baum | 55%
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| Common Sense (1775) | Thomas Paine | 55%
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| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) | Washington Irving | 55%
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| Charlotte’s Web (1952) | E. B. White | 54%
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| The Last of the Mohicans(1826) | James Fenimore Cooper | 54%
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| The Color Purple (1982) | Alice Walker | 52%
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| The Road Not Taken (1874) | Robert Frost | 52%
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| Song of Solomon (1977) | Toni Morrison | 52%
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| The Joy Luck Club (1989) | Amy Tan | 51%
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| The Jungle (1906) | Upton Sinclair | 51%
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| Invisible Man (1952) | Ralph Ellison | 50%
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| Rabbit, Run (1960) | John Updike | 42%
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| The Good Earth (1931) | Pearl S. Buck | 41%
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| Self-Reliance (1836) | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 39%
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| O Pioneers! (1913) | Willa Cather | 38%
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| “A House Divided” (1858) | Abraham Lincoln | 37%
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| Gravity's Rainbow (1973) | Thomas Pynchon | 36%
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) | Zora Neale Hurston | 36%
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| Ethan Frome (1911) | Edith Wharton | 35%
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| The Naked and the Dead (1948) | Norman Mailer | 35%
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| Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) | Alex Haley | 34%
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| My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) | Frederick Douglass | 34%
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| The Gift of the Magi (1905) | O. Henry | 34%
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| Main Street (1920) | Sinclair Lewis | 34%
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| The Way to Wealth (1758) | Benjamin Franklin | 31%
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| The Song of Hiawatha, (1854) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 29%
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| Our Town (1938) | Thornton Wilder | 29%
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| Ender's Game (1985) | Orson Scott Card | 28%
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| The Giver (1994) | Lois Lowry | 27%
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| A Wrinkle in Time (1962) | Madeleine L'Engle | 27%
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| Giovanni's Room (1956) | James Baldwin | 26%
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| I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (1830) | Emily Dickinson | 25%
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| All the King’s Men (1946) | Robert Penn Warren | 25%
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| The Goldfinch (2013) | Donna Tartt | 23%
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| Long Days Journey into Night (1957) | Eugene O’Neill | 22%
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| Goodbye, Columbus (1959) | Philip Roth | 22%
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| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) | Stephen Crane | 22%
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| From Here to Eternity (1953) | James Jones | 21%
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| Herzog (1964) | Saul Bellow | 21%
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| The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912) | James Weldon Johnson | 20%
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) | Jonathan Edwards | 20%
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| Oklahoma! (1943) | Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II | 20%
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| The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 19%
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| White Noise (1985) | Don DeLillo | 19%
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| anyone lived in a pretty how town (1940) | E. E. Cummings | 19%
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| The Butter Battle Book (1984) | Dr. Seuss | 18%
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| Flowers for Algernon (1966) | Daniel Keyes | 17%
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| The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1929) | Langston Hughes | 17%
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| A Raisin in the Sun (1959) | Lorraine Hansberry | 17%
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| West Side Story (1957) | Arthur Laurents and Lenard Bernstein | 16%
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| Incarnations of Burned Children (2004) | David Foster Wallace | 16%
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| Ragtime (1975) | E.L. Doctorow | 16%
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| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) | Lew Wallace | 16%
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| Lost in Yonkers (1991) | Neil Simon | 16%
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| Tales of the South Pacific (1948) | James A. Michener | 14%
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| The Piano Lesson (1990) | August Wilson | 13%
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| The Things They Carried (1990) | Tim O’Brian | 13%
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| Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1881) | Joel Chandler Harris | 12%
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| “The New Colossus” (1883) | Emma Lazarus | 11%
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| The Best Man: A Play about Politics (1960) | Gore Vidal | 11%
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| Verses upon the Burning of our House (1666) | Anne Bradstreet | 10%
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| Sunday in the Park with George (1985) | James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim | 10%
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| The Day of the Locust (1939) | Nathanael West | 10%
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| Rules for Radicals (1971) | Saul Alinsky | 10%
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| of Plymouth Plantation (1651) | William Bradford | 10%
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| A Model of Christian Charity (1630) | John Winthrop | 9%
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| Good Country People (1955) | Flannery O'Connor | 8%
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| There Shall Be No Night (1940) | Robert E. Sherwood | 8%
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| Angels in America (1993) | Tony Kushner | 8%
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| Spoon River Anthology (1915) | Edgar Lee Masters | 7%
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| Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) | Emily Post | 7%
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| Cabaret, (1966) | Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb, and John Kander | 7%
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| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?(1966) | Joyce Carol Oates | 7%
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| "Hard Times": An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) | Studs Terkel | 7%
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| Thanatopsis, (1811) | William Cullen Bryant | 7%
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| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) | Alison Bechdel | 6%
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| Show Boat (1926) | Edna Ferber | 6%
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| The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (2002) | Edward Albee | 6%
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| A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974) | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 6%
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| Rent (1996) | Jonathan Larson | 6%
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| Trees (1913) | Joyce Kilmer | 6%
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| A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration (1682) | Mary Rowlandson | 5%
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| For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1980) | Ntozkae Shange | 5%
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| The People, Yes (1936) | Carl Sandburg | 4%
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| The Adding Machine (1923) | Elmer Rice | 4%
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| Casey at the Bat (1888) | Ernest Thayer | 4%
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| Hints toward Reforms (1850) | Horace Greeley | 4%
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| The Trip to Bountiful (1953) | Horton Foote | 4%
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| A River Runs Through It (1976) | Norman Maclean | 4%
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| Diary of a Virginia Gentleman (1709) | William Byrd II | 4%
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| Bird by Bird (1995) | Anne Lamott | 3%
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| M. Butterfly (1988) | David Henry Hwang | 3%
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| Black like Me (1961) | John Howard Griffin | 3%
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| The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) | John Rollin Ridge | 3%
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| Ordinary People (1976) | Judith Guest | 3%
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| Bless Me, Ultima (1972) | Rudolfo A. Anaya | 3%
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| Yekl; A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) | Abraham Cahan | 2%
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| Driving Miss Daisy (1987) | Alfred Uhry | 2%
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| Clybourne Park (2010) | Bruce Norris | 2%
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| A Part of Speech (1977) | Joseph Brodsky | 2%
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| Hard Lines (1939) | Ogden Nash | 2%
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| Trifles (1918) | Susan Glaspell | 2%
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| Saga of Pecos Bill (1923) | Tex O'Reilly | 2%
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| They Cage the Animals at Night (1984) | Jennings Michael Burch | 1%
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| How I Learned to Drive (1998) | Paula Vogel | 1%
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| Next to Normal (2010) | Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey | 1%
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| Blood on the Forge (1941) | William Attaway | 1%
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