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

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1Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote "The God of Small Things"?Right2.1s+100
2Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the children's science fantasy "A Wrinkle in Time"?Right0.5s+100
3Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth"?Wrong2.9s0
4Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the time-slip children's novel "Tom's Midnight Garden"?Right2.2s+100
5Books › AuthorsEasyWho created the "Where's Wally?" (or "Where's Waldo?") picture books?Wrong3.4s0
6Books › Mystery & CrimeEasyWhich writer is credited with the first modern detective story, 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'?Right1.6s+100
7Books › AuthorsVery hardThe "Rubaiyat" is attributed to which Persian poet?Right2.0s+100
8Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the Sicilian novel "The Leopard"?Wrong3.0s0
9Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?Right1.3s+100
10Books › AuthorsExpertWhich Roman writer is credited with the satirical novel "Satyricon"?Wrong1.4s0