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Plenty of great novelists wrote under names that weren't their own. Can you see past the pen names? @lomo scored 799 in Great Authors on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Books › AuthorsHardWhich Kenyan writer wrote "Weep Not, Child"?Right1.3s+100
2Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the 1924 dystopian novel "We"?Wrong1.7s0
3Books › AuthorsHardWhich illustrator drew the "Le Petit Nicolas" stories written by Rene Goscinny?Right1.2s+100
4Books › Children's & YAEasyWhat did Roald Dahl do in the Second World War before writing children's books?Right2.7s+99
5Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?Right1.0s+100
6Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the satire "Gulliver's Travels"?Right0.6s+100
7Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?Right0.7s+100
8Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the novel "The Godfather"?Right0.7s+100
9Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich English Romantic poet wrote the satirical poem "Don Juan"?Right2.2s+100
10Books › AuthorsExpertWho wrote the early mystery novel "The Woman in White"?Wrong1.9s0