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		GREATEST LITERATURE CONTEST #20 It's all about me! Name the fictional counterparts to these real-life authors. You could win one of the books! Instructions on entering are below. Hint: All the works are discussed on the website.
			1	Lots of Dickens' characters are based on his own life, but none more than the lad who shares his initials in reverse.
			2	Joyce created a portrait of himself as a young man with this character.
			3	Shakespeare broke his staff—I mean, quill—ending his career with this literary wizard.
			4	Readers hit the road with Kerouac—or at least with this heavenly stand-in for the author.
			5	Bonus points for knowing the crazy, charismatic substitute for Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady in the same book.
			6	Partly based on the author's life experiences, partly romantic fantasy, this Brontë character has to contend with a strange, brooding lover and a madwoman in the attic.
			7	Ol' Hem often wrote as though every leading character was himself. But one Hemingway character stands out as having been based on his experiences as a wounded soldier in love with his nurse.
			8	He wasn't exactly Hugh Garner's twin, but this Cabbagetown native showed us the Toronto slum the author grew up in.
			9	Again not exactly the author's literary doppleganger, but Margaret Laurence's author heroine does help us divine some basic truths about the writer's life.
			10	A bit of a trick question: when Pirsig's character is not fixing his motorcycle, he's rhapsodizing philosophically. Much as Pirsig himself does. Hmmm.
		The prizes: Your choice from several of these books (telling you their titles would give away some of the answers), as well as from among many other selections in our other stock of the greatest literature of all time. Prizes will go to three entrants drawn from those with the most correct answers. Note: We don't always get enough winners with all answers right, so it's worth entering even if you aren't sure of them all! To enter: Send an email to contest@EditorEric.com by June 30, 2008, listing your answers from 1 to 10. Winners will be notified by email and announced on this site. To practise your literary trivia skills, try the previous contests listed on the left.