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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 595 in Great Authors on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote and illustrated the wordless picture book "The Snowman"?Right5.3s+95
2Books › AuthorsVery hardWho wrote the play "Cyrano de Bergerac"?Wrong4.1s0
3Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote "The Magic Mountain"?Wrong1.7s0
4Books › AuthorsHardWhich Turkish novelist wrote "My Name Is Red"?Wrong2.4s0
5Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the satirical novel "Dead Souls"?Right0.8s+100
6Books › AuthorsMediumWhich poet is widely regarded as the national poet of Palestine?Right1.5s+100
7Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Zimbabwean author wrote the novel "Nervous Conditions"?Right2.2s+100
8Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Lebanese-American writer wrote "The Prophet"?Right1.9s+100
9Books › ClassicsEasyRoughly how long did Charles Dickens take to write 'A Christmas Carol' in 1843?Wrong1.9s0
10Books › AuthorsExpertWhich poet-king of Texcoco is credited with surviving Nahuatl poems?Right1.6s+100