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Plenty of great novelists wrote under names that weren't their own. Can you see past the pen names? @maggie scored 697 in Great Authors on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Books › AuthorsExpertWhich Guadeloupean writer wrote the historical novel "Segu"?Right4.1s+97
2Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the novel "The Trial"?Right1.1s+100
3Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?Right1.4s+100
4Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Roman poet wrote the "Metamorphoses"?Wrong1.3s0
5Books › AuthorsMediumWhich German philosopher wrote "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?Right1.5s+100
6Books › AuthorsMediumPablo Neruda was the pen name of a poet born with which name?Wrong3.2s0
7Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the play "A Streetcar Named Desire"?Right1.3s+100
8Books › AuthorsEasyWhich author created the wizarding school Hogwarts?Right0.8s+100
9Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich Russian theorist applied the idea of the carnivalesque to Rabelais?Right1.9s+100
10Books › Sci-Fi & FantasyEasyTolkien wrote the first line of 'The Hobbit' on a blank page while doing what?Wrong2.5s0