Megan topped the list with 3 correct! Thanks for playing 🙂
It’s Women’s History Month, so see if you know these women authors.
Here’s how to play…Identify the author and leave a comment with the # and the name and I’ll cross it off the list. No Googling, that’s cheating and no fun!
1. I was a successful playwright and had a 30-year love affair with author Dashiell Hammett? Lillian Hellman, Nicole
2. I was 21 when I finished the first version of my now popular novel. It was titled First Impressions. I rewrote it fourteen years later and changed the title using alliteration. Jane Austen, Megan
3. I was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for Beloved. Toni Morrison, Kathy
4. I was considered the first female poet in the American colonies. – ANNE BRADSTREET
5. I’m the British author who finished my most famous novel, translated to screen many times, at the age of 19 and died in 1851 at the age of 53 of a probable brain tumor. Mary Shelley, Mark
6. I am the last woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for my novel Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri, Megan
7. We are noteworthy sisters who also wrote under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. the Bronte sisters, ‘Nise Does anyone know our names? Charlote, Emily, and…Anne
8. I am Chile born, but became a US citizen in 2003. I write in the magic realism tradition. A few of my novels are on Stacy’s Top 100 list 🙂 Isabel Allende, Nicole
9. I was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 with my novel about innocence. Edith Wharton, Megan
10. I am the highest paid author in the world. JK Rowling, Kathy