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This quiz will test your knowledge about authors
who created some of the world’s best-known romantic fiction.
Check out our biographies or use our online Biography and
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databases to find out more about these famous writers.
When this author was a young child, she invented an imaginary
land called Gondal and wrote stories and poems about it with her
sister. They continued writing about Gondal for the rest of
their lives.
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Though she is famous for writing young adult books about
vampires, this author says she has never seen a vampire movie
and is not a fan of vampire books .Answer
This playwright got married at age 18 to a woman who was eight
years older than him.
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While working as a library shelver at age 16, this future author
discovered many books by African-American authors. Reading these
books inspired her to become a journalist and novelist herself.
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When this mystery writer turned to erotica, she had to hire a
bodyguard to accompany her on book signing tours to protect her
from angry fans who were upset by her newer, racier books.
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This author started writing her masterpiece while waiting for a
broken ankle to heal. Her husband brought her stacks of library
books to read while she convalesced, then presented her with a
stack of blank paper. Since she had read almost every book in
the library, it was her turn to write a book herself if she
wanted anything to read, he said.
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A snowstorm inspired this author to write her first romance
novel. Trapped in her house with her two young sons and only
their game of Candyland for entertainment, she grabbed a pencil
and started writing.
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This popular author is actually two authors, Roberta Anderson
and Mary Kuczkir, writing together under a pseudonym.
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One of the reasons this classic author kept her writing a secret
was because she thought her sister was more deserving of the
limelight than she was. She dreaded the thought of becoming a
public figure and tried hard not to associate her name with her
early books.
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An unsent letter to her grandfather was this author’s
inspiration to write her first novel. Her grandfather believed
that people only died when you forgot them. After he passed
away, she wrote a novel based on her own family to show that she
would not forget him.
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