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Plenty of great novelists wrote under names that weren't their own. Can you see past the pen names? @grammybooks scored 389 in Great Authors on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Vietnamese poet wrote the national epic "The Tale of Kieu"?Wrong3.2s0
2Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the novel "Brave New World"?Wrong1.6s0
3Books › AuthorsHardWho wrote the novel "Dracula"?Right3.5s+98
4Books › AuthorsExpertWhich poet's "Cantares gallegos" is celebrated as the revival of written Galician?Wrong3.6s0
5Books › AuthorsVery hardWhich New Zealand-born writer wrote the story collection "The Garden Party"?Wrong3.8s0
6Books › AuthorsHardWhich German poet wrote the Middle High German romance "Parzival"?Wrong3.0s0
7Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Chinese novelist, author of "Red Sorghum", won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature?Right2.9s+99
8Books › AuthorsMediumWhich Japanese novelist wrote the tetralogy "The Sea of Fertility"?Wrong2.6s0
9Books › Children's & YAEasyAfter publishers turned it down, how did Beatrix Potter first publish 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'?Right4.8s+96
10Books › Modern FictionEasyStephen King threw the first pages of 'Carrie' in the bin. Who rescued them?Right4.7s+96