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Plenty of great novelists wrote under names that weren't their own. Can you see past the pen names? @mrsthegeek scored 585 in Great Authors on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Books › AuthorsExpertWhich Guadeloupean writer wrote the historical novel "Segu"?Wrong6.8s0
2Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the novel "The Trial"?Wrong2.9s0
3Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?Right1.6s+100
4Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Roman poet wrote the "Metamorphoses"?Right1.3s+100
5Books › AuthorsMediumWhich German philosopher wrote "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?Right7.5s+91
6Books › AuthorsMediumPablo Neruda was the pen name of a poet born with which name?Right5.8s+94
7Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the play "A Streetcar Named Desire"?Right0.9s+100
8Books › AuthorsEasyWhich author created the wizarding school Hogwarts?Right0.4s+100
9Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich Russian theorist applied the idea of the carnivalesque to Rabelais?Wrong5.4s0
10Books › Sci-Fi & FantasyEasyTolkien wrote the first line of 'The Hobbit' on a blank page while doing what?Wrong4.4s0