Post Quiz: Writer Oddities - Answers

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Post Quiz: Writer Oddities - Answers

Writers often have chequered careers. This may be how they learn to do what they do. Be that as it may, here are the answers to the quiz. Be the life of the party with these weird facts.

  1. Kurt Vonnegut
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Charles Dickens
  4. JK Rowling
  5. O Henry
  6. Ian Fleming
  7. JRR Tolkien
  8. Erle Stanley Gardner
  9. Agatha Christie
  10. Dan Brown
  1. Was a POW.
  2. Deserted from the Confederate army.
  3. Had to visit a parent in jail.
  4. Was a single parent on welfare.
  5. Fled the country to escape arrest.
  6. Designed a 'not very nice' spy idea.
  7. Was bitten by a baboon spider as a child.
  8. Was thrown out of law school.
  9. Disappeared, and was sought by police and mediums.
  10. Started out as a song writer.
Author Kurt Vonnegut.
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