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

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1Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote the picture book "The Gruffalo"?Wrong2.1s0
2Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Chilean poet was the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?Wrong2.5s0
3Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Cuban novelist wrote "The Kingdom of This World"?Wrong2.9s0
4Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Brazilian modernist wrote the 1928 novel "Macunaima"?Wrong4.3s0
5Books › AuthorsExpertWhich Paraguayan novelist wrote "I the Supreme", about a 19th-century dictator?Wrong2.7s0
6Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote "Wuthering Heights"?Wrong3.5s0
7Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the political treatise "The Prince"?Right0.7s+100
8Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote "Crime and Punishment"?Right1.4s+100
9Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich Scottish poet wrote "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"?Right3.9s+97
10Books › PoetryEasyEmily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems. Roughly how many were published in her lifetime?Right1.9s+100