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THIRD CONTEST
We asked: (Answers and winners below.) |
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| Their real names | Hints | ||||||||||
| #1 | Eric Blair | His best-known work was about a future that's in the past now. | |||||||||
| #2 | Mary Ann Evans | Her pseudonym helped her become one of the guys. | |||||||||
| #3 | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | So popular that, like Madonna, this writer went by just one name. | |||||||||
| #4 | Zhou Shuren | Even this "real" name was not the birth name of this Chinese writer. | |||||||||
| #5 | Jósef Korzeniowski | His Anglicized pen name was based on his Polish birth name. | |||||||||
| #6 | John Griffith Chaney | Odd pseudonym for a writer of adventures far from civilization. | |||||||||
| #7 | Samuel Clemens | No hint for this one because it's too easy—everyone knows this writer. | |||||||||
| #8 | Mario Vargas Llosa | You've seen the name he writes under very recently. | |||||||||
| #9 | Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee | Two writers, one pen name. The royalty of American mystery writing in the mid-twentieth century. | |||||||||
| #10 | Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov | Russian revolutionary writer who once had a city named after him—but now gives his name only to a famous park. | |||||||||
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We had seven people get all the answers right (first time we've had that many correct entries). The three names drawn to receive prizes were: John Steinberg of Falls Church, Virginia; Michel Tordion of Ottawa; and Floyd Chrysler of Toronto. They've chosen Nineteen Eighty-Four, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Under Western Eyes from among the book prizes offered. Answers: 1. George Orwell 2. George Eliot 3. Molière 4. Lu Hsun (Lu Xun) 5. Joseph Conrad 6. Jack London 7. Mark Twain 8. Mario
Vargas Llosa 9. Ellery Queen 10. Maxim Gorky |
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