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Flashcards by Robin Predny, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Robin Predny
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Was a member of an opera company chorus. Died at 34 of tuberculosis. | Katherine Mansfield "Bliss" "A Cup of Tea" "The Doll's House" "The Garden Party" "Marriage a la Mode" "Miss Brill" |
| Red Cross volunteer in Alexandria, Egypt. Accomplished amateur pianist. | E.M. Forster "The Celestial Omnibus" "The Other Side of the Hedge" "The Road from Colonus" |
| Is a licensed pharmacist. Wrote a play about Virginia Woolf. | Edna O'Brien "A Scandalous Woman" |
| Was an apprentice pharmacist. Worked at Hyde's Southsea Drapery Emporium. Founder of the British Diabetic Association. | H.G. Wells "The Country of the Blind" "A Door in the Wall" |
| Served as an air raid warden. Renowned as a talented hostess with lively parties. | Elizabeth Bowen "A Day in the Dark" "The Demon Lover" |
| Received no formal education. Was a prolific diarist. Was a formidable bowler. | Virginia Woolf "A Haunted House" "Kew Gardens" "The Mark on the Wall" "The New Dress" |
| Had a pronounced stutter. Was a covert intelligence agent in WW I. Earned a medical degree but never practiced. | William Somerset Maugham "The Fall of Edward Barnard" |
| Born in Kermansha, Persia (now Iran). Grew up on a family farm in Africa. | Doris Lessing "A Mild Attack of Locusts" "No Witchcraft for Sale" "Through the Tunnel" "To Room Nineteen" |
| Was a clerk in a leather warehouse. Published under the pseudonym "Flying Officer X." | H.E. Bates "Daffodil Sky" |
| Studied singing and piano in Paris. Has the longest running play production in British theater history. | Agatha Christie "Wasps' Nest" "The Witness for the Prosecution" |
| Had a heart ailment. Published first story at age 15. Attended the Convent of our Lady of Mercy for school. | Nadine Gordimer "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants" "Once Upon a Time" "The Train from Rhodesia" "Town and Country Lovers" "The Ultimate Safari" |
| Born in Motihari, India. Joined the Indian Imperial Police. Married Sonia Brownell only 4 months before he died. | George Orwell "A Hanging" "Shooting an Elephant" |
| Worked at the Post Office Savings Bank for nearly 20 years. Grew up in a sea town & his dad managed a wharf. | W.W. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw" |
| Published first novel before the age of 21. Rejected for admission to a university physics program because he was too young. | Ben Okri "In the Shadow of War" |
| Won a scholarship to Oxford University. Was an accomplished Dante scholar, and taught herself Italian. | Dorothy Sayers "Suspicion" |
| Died of a heart attack on Valentine's Day. Worked as a lyricist with George Gershwin & Jerome Kern. | P.G. Wodehouse "Jeeves Takes Charge" |
| Born in Berdiczew, Poland. Worked as a ship's officer, traveling the world, for 20 years. | Joseph Conrad "An Outpost of Progress" "The Secret Sharer" |
| Loved pranks & practical jokes. Served as the lone officer for a Secret Intelligence Service outpost in Sierra Leone. | Graham Greene "The Destructors" "A Hint of an Explanation" "A Shocking Accident" |
| Close friend of Teddy Roosevelt. After throwing away a bad report card, he had to walk to school with a sign that said LIAR between his shoulders. | Rudyard Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King" "Mrs. Bathurst" |
| Educated for the priesthood as a child. Worked as a lumberjack. Founded the Irish Communist Party. | Liam O'Flaherty "The Wave" |
| Grew up in a theater family, with parents who were both actors. Adopted an alter ego named "Eric Avon" as a child. | Daphne Du Maurier "The Birds" |
| Educated by Jesuits. Worked as a language instructor. Died following surgery for a perforated ulcer. | James Joyce The Dubliners: "Araby" "Eveline" "The Dead" "Counterparts" |
| Was a librarian. Was a member of the Irish Republican Army. | Frank O'Connor "Guests of the Nation" |
| Spent one year as a policeman in Burma. Killed in action in France during WW I. | Saki (H.H. Munro) "The Interlopers" "The Open Window" |
| Loved playing with his dog & his 6 computers. Considered the inventor of communications satellites. | Arthur C. Clarke "The Star" "If I Forget Thee, O Earth..." |
| Hoped to one day establish a utopian community in the Southwest U.S. Suffered & died from tuberculosis | D.H. Lawrence "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" "The Rocking Horse Winner" |
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