Statistics for Literary History - Birth and Death Year

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	Years Alive	Initials	Answer	% Correct
	1812 - 1870	CD	Charles Dickens	100%
14th century	1343 - 1400	GC	Geoffrey Chaucer	100%
	1903 - 1950	GO	George Orwell	100%
	1866 - 1946	HGW	H.G Wells	100%
19th century	1775 - 1817	JA	Jane Austen	100%
17th century	1608 - 1674	JM	John Milton	100%
	1892 - 1973	JRRT	J.R.R. Tolkien	100%
	1888 - 1965	TSE	T.S. Eliot	100%
	1564 - 1616	WS	William Shakespeare	100%
	1564 - 1593	CM	Christopher Marlowe	67%
	1809 - 1849	EAP	Edgar Allan Poe	67%
	1896 - 1940	FSF	F. Scott Fitzgerald	67%
	1819 - 1880	GE	George Eliot	67%
	1819 - 1891	HM	Herman Melville	67%
	1667 - 1745	JS	Jonathan Swift	67%
	1835 - 1910	MT	Mark Twain	67%
16th century	1547 - 1616	MdC	Miguel De Cervantes	67%
15th century	1469 - 1527	NM	Niccolo Machiavelli	67%
	1854 - 1900	OW	Oscar Wilde	67%
	1916 - 1990	RD	Roald Dahl	67%
	1850 - 1894	RLS	Robert Louis Stevenson	67%
	1802 - 1885	VH	Victor Hugo	67%
	1882 - 1941	VW	Virginia Woolf	67%
	1819 - 1892	WW	Walt Whitman	67%
	1897 - 1962	WF	William Faulkner	67%
	1894 - 1963	AH	Aldous Huxley	33%
	1688 - 1744	AP	Alexander Pope	33%
	1799 - 1837	AP	Alexander Pushkin	33%
	1802 - 1870	AD	Alexandre Dumas	33%
	1860 - 1904	AC	Anton Chekhov	33%
	1859 - 1930	ACD	Arthur Conan Doyle	33%
	1898 - 1956	BB	Bertolt Brecht	33%
	1816 - 1855	CB	Charlotte Bronte	33%
21st century	1962 - 2008	DFW	David Foster Wallace	33%
	1862 - 1937	EW	Edith Wharton	33%
	1818 - 1848	EB	Emily Bronte	33%
	1830 - 1886	ED	Emily Dickinson	33%
	1883 - 1924	FK	Franz Kafka	33%
	1821 - 1881	FD	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	33%
	1927 - 2014	GGM	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	33%
	1958 -	GS	George Saunders	33%
	1821 - 1880	GF	Gustave Flaubert	33%
	1817 - 1862	HDT	Henry David Thoreau	33%
	1920 - 1992	IA	Isaac Asimov	33%
	1882 - 1941	JJ	James Joyce	33%
	1919 - 2010	JDS	J.D. Salinger	33%
	1749 - 1832	JWG	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	33%
	1795 - 1821	JK	John Keats	33%
	1902 - 1968	JS	John Steinbeck	33%
20th century	1857 - 1924	JC	Joseph Conrad	33%
	1922 - 2007	KV	Kurt Vonnegut	33%
	1901 - 1967	LH	Langston Hughes	33%
	1828 - 1910	LT	Leo Tolstoy	33%
	1788 - 1824	LB	Lord Byron	33%
	1797 - 1851	MS	Mary Shelley	33%
	1809 - 1852	NG	Nikolai Gogol	33%
	1874 - 1963	RF	Robert Frost	33%
18th century	1689 - 1761	SR	Samuel Richardson	33%
	1932 - 1963	SP	Sylvia Plath	33%
	1875 - 1955	TM	Thomas Mann	33%
	1891 - 1960	ZNH	Zora Neale Hurston	33%
	1899 - 1961	EH	Ernest Hemingway	0%
	1925 - 1964	FC	Flanney O'Connor	0%
	1924 - 1987	JB	James Baldwin	0%
	1920 - 2012	RB	Ray Bradbury	0%
	1906 - 1989	SB	Samuel Beckett	0%