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

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1Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote the novel "Oliver Twist"?Right1.3s+100
2Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Pakistani novelist wrote "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"?Right1.2s+100
3Books › AuthorsEasyWho wrote "The Jungle Book"?Right0.6s+100
4Books › AuthorsHardWhich Lebanese novelist wrote "Gate of the Sun"?Right0.9s+100
5Books › AuthorsMediumWhich German-Swiss author wrote "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf"?Right1.7s+100
6Books › AuthorsMediumWhich German dramatist wrote "Mother Courage and Her Children"?Right1.9s+100
7Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich Iraqi woman poet was a leading pioneer of free verse in Arabic?Wrong1.9s0
8Books › AuthorsExpertWhich Malagasy poet, who wrote in French and Malagasy, is regarded as Madagascar's first modern writer?Wrong1.5s0
9Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the violent Western novel "Blood Meridian"?Right1.4s+100
10Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the verse novel "Eugene Onegin"?Right0.7s+100