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
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I’m sad to say I only know 2 of these (at least I think I know them). My guess for #3 is Toni Morrison and for #10 it’s J. K. Rowling.
You’re right! Some of them I probably made harder than necessary 🙂
No. 2 is definitely Jane Austen! 🙂 And No. 6 is Jhumpa Lahiri.
And the next two are guesses: No. 9 is Edith Wharton, and No. 8 Paolo Coehlo?
Fun! 🙂
Very good! 3 out of 4. Paolo Coelho is a good guess, but would probably not like being an answer to a quiz titled What Woman Am I? 🙂
No. 7 is the Brontes
Yes, it’s the Bronte sisters. Do you remember their first names?
Emily and Charlotte Bronte! 🙂
And you’re totally right — Coehlo definitely wouldn’t make it onto a famous woman quiz. LOL!
#5 is Mary Shelley
You know your gothic women 🙂
#1 is Lillian Hellman.
I thought I’d take a guess on #8—Isabelle Allende?
Oh! And the last Bronte sister is Ann (maybe Anne)
OK. Because I can’t leave anything unfinished. I’m going to guess Emily Dickenson (spelling?) for #4. I don’t even know if she’s American but she’s the only female poet to come to mind.
This looks like so much fun! Do you mind if I steal the idea (with different authors and clues) for my blog? I’ll give you link love of course. 🙂
Sure, go ahead. I do a different quiz every Monday. Feel free to join me 🙂
Sorry I’m new to your blog, even though I shouldn’t be. Since your name wasn’t linked to your blog when you commented on mine, I didn’t realise that you had one! Now you’re in my reader. 🙂
I don’t know why my name wasn’t linked, but I’m glad you found me anyway.
Love this. Love Women’s History Month! We’re celebrating at Color Online.
We host regular trivia quizzes about women writers and other prominent women. We offer book prizes. If you’d like a free book that you choose from our prize bucket, check out Potpourri quiz at Color Online.