Our June quiz features authors/poets born in the month of June. Below is a list of authors with June birthdays and book titles from 30 of these authors. Match the author with their book. Just for fun, see if you know the country of their birth. (Not all authors or countries listed will be used and many countries will be used multiple times). Answers will be posted on the last page of this issue - Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life (July 2018).
Authors:
Colleen McCullough Thomas Hardy Allen Ginsberg
Richard Scarry Thomas Mann Gwendolyn Brooks
Maurice Sendak William Styron Anne Frank
Brian Jacques Gail Godwin Salmon Rushdie
Vikram Seth Ian McEwan Octavia Butler
David Leavitt Anita Desai George Orwell
Eric Carle Pearl S. Buck Alice McDermott
John Toland David McPhail Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ken Follett Saul Bellow Alexander Pushkin
Nikki Giovanni Dorothy l. Sayers Frederico Garcia Lorca
Joyce Carol Oates James Weldon Johnson Barbara Pym
Cynthia Rylant Harriet Beecher Stowe Frances G. Joyce
William Butler Yeats Patricia Cornwell Jacques Romain
Countries:
United States Romania Haiti India
Egypt Canada Australia Ireland
Kenya United Kingdom Switzerland Italy
England Spain Russia Iran
Germany Scotland Wales Vietnam
Book Titles Author and Country
The Captain’s Daughter ___________________________
The Thorn Birds ___________________________
Eye of the Needle ___________________________
The Good Earth ___________________________
Redwall ___________________________
The Children Act ___________________________
Humboldt’s Gift ___________________________
Jude the Obscure ___________________________
Midnight’s Children ___________________________
The Lost Language of Cranes ___________________________
1984 ___________________________
The Wonderings of Oisin & Other Poems ___________________________
Excellent Women ___________________________
Whose Body? ___________________________
The Magic Mountain ___________________________
Parable of the Sower ___________________________
Charming Billy ___________________________
Where the Wild Things Are ___________________________
Sonnets of Dark Love ___________________________
Sophie’s Choice ___________________________
The Diary of a Young Girl ___________________________
A Suitable Boy ___________________________
What I Lived for ___________________________
Howl and other Poems ___________________________
Body of Evidence ___________________________
Uncle Tom’s Cabin ___________________________
The Village by the Sea ___________________________
The Social Contract ___________________________
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ___________________________
A Street in Bronzeville ___________________________
Gwendolyn Brooks Library Walk New York City By Lesekreis - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31259493
Gwendolyn Brooks photo By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53147964
Vikram Seth https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Vikram_Seth%2C_in_Oxfordshire.jpg
By Amrhelweh [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Maurice Sendak: By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35758672