FIRST CONTEST

  
Who are these writers?

Picking a winner was not difficult. Only one entrant identified all five authors correctly. The most common mistake was in misidentifying the woman author (#5) as Jane Austen.

The winner received a copy of George Eliot's Middlemarch as a prize.

Answers:

These are five of Eric's favourite ten authors.
Here they are with his favourite book by each:

#1:  Elmore Leonard (Freaky Deaky)

#2:  Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

#3:  Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls)

#4:  John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

#5:  George Eliot (Middlemarch)