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

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1Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?Right2.0s+100
2Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the fantasy novel "American Gods"?Right0.2s+100
3Books › AuthorsMediumWho wrote the novel "Cloud Atlas"?Right0.9s+100
4Books › AuthorsHardWhich Chinese writer wrote "The True Story of Ah Q"?Wrong2.3s0
5Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote "If on a winter's night a traveler"?Right0.6s+100
6Books › AuthorsHardWhich Dutch novelist wrote "The Assault"?Wrong1.3s0
7Books › AuthorsMediumWho created the amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne?Wrong3.0s0
8Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote the novel "Moby-Dick"?Right0.6s+100
9Books › AuthorsExpertWho wrote "The Alexandria Quartet"?Wrong0.9s0
10Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich Greek poet of Alexandria wrote the poem "Ithaka"?Wrong1.0s0