|
1) Which U.S. President was a Finalist for the National
Book Award?
A) Bill Clinton
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Richard Nixon
Congratulations! You are correct.
John F. Kennedy was a nonfiction finalist in 1957 for
Profiles in Courage.
Back to Author Facts and
Trivia.
2)In 1999 the National Book Foundation presented
this television personality with an honorary medal for
his/her work promoting reading and books?
A) Jerry Seinfeld
B) Al Roker
C) Oprah Winfrey
Congratulations! You are correct.
C) Oprah Winfrey received the National Book Foundation's
Fiftieth Anniversary Gold Medal in 1999.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
3) What do you call someone who writes fiction?
A) Fictioneer
B) Imagineer
C) None of the above
Congratulations! You are correct.
A) Fictioneer
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
4) In 1983, this year's Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters honoree, Judy Blume,
was a National Book Award Finalist for what book?
A) Blubber
B) Tiger Eyes
C) Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Tiger Eyes
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
5) What author has received the most nominations
for the National Book Awards and won for two books in
the same category and the same year?
A) John Updike
B) William Carlos Williams
C) Ernest Hemingway
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Poet William Carlos Williams won in 1950 for Paterson
Book III. He also won for Selected Poems
in the same year! He has been nominated for the National
Book Award nine times and won only once.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
6) What author has won the National Book Award more than any other?
A) William Carlos Williams
B) E. Annie Proulx
C) Saul Bellow
Congratulations! You are correct.
C) Saul Bellow has won The National Book Award three
times and was nominated six times.
Back to Author
Facts and Trivia.
7) Philip Roth was only in his late
20's when he won the National Book Award in 1960 for
this famous novel:
A) Goodbye, Columbus
B) Portnoy's Complaint
C) Patrimony: A True Story
Congratulations! You are correct.
A) Goodbye, Columbus, Roth's first novel, received
the 1960 National Book Award for fiction.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
8) Name one of the only two female authors to have
received two honors from the National Book Foundation.
Fiction writer Eudora Welty has received two National Book Awards. One in 1983 for Collected Stories of Eudora Welty and in 1991 she received the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Medal.
Katherine Paterson has been nominated six times. She won the Children's Literature
Medal in 1977 for The Master Puppeteer and again
in 1979 for The Great Gilly Hopkins.
Back to
Author Facts and Trivia.
9) What year were the National Book Awards established?
1950: we are currently celebrating the 55th year
of the National Book Awards.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
10) Name the four categories currently awarded The National Book Award?
A) Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation
B) Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography
C) Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature
Congratulations! You are correct.
C) Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Young People's Literature
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
11) What 1997 National Book Award Winning
book was recently made into a movie starring Jude Law
and Nicole Kidman?
A) Moulin Rouge
B)The Human Stain
C) Cold Mountain
Congratulations! You are correct.
C) Cold Mountain, written by Charles Frasier.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
12) Who was the first African-American Winner of
the National Book Award?
A) Charles Johnson
B) Ralph Ellison
C) Frederick Douglas
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Ralph Ellison won in 1953 for Invisible Man.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
13) Which culinary icon won a National
Book Award in 1980?
A) Wolfgang Puck
B) Graham Kerr
C) Julia Child
Congratulations! You are correct.
C) Julia Child won a National Book Award in Current
Interest for Julia Child and More Company.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
14) In order to win a National Book Award an author
must:
A) be over the age of twenty-five.
B) be a United States citizen.
C) have written more than one book.
D) All of the above
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Be a United States citizen.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
15) What 1992 book about growing up
gay and one man's struggle, for half his life, to come
out of the closet won the Nonfiction National Book
Award?
A) A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
B) Freedom by Orlando Patterson
C) Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul
Monette
Congratulations! You are correct.
D) Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul
Monette
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
16) The first National Book Award in Nonfiction
was awarded to Ralph L. Rusk for his biography about
what famous writer?
A)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
B)
Herman Melville
C)
Henry James
D)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congratulations! You are correct.
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
17) For what novel did Ha Jin win the
National Book Award in 1999?
A)
Plainsong
B) Waiting
C) Who Do You Love
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Waiting
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
18) Ben Kingsley starred in this movie
based on a National Book Award Finalist novel by Andre
Dubus III:
A)
House of Sand and Fog
B)
Atticus
C)
Sexy Beast
Congratulations! You are correct.
A) House of Sand and Fog
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
19) What Irish-American author won the National
Book Award in 1998 for her novel, Charming Billy,
about an Irish immigrant who drinks himself to death
and the family and friends that love him.
A)
Maeve Binchy
B)
Alice McDermott
C)
Elizabeth McCracken
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Alice McDermott
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
20) What famous and prolific science-fiction writer
received the Distinguished Contribution to American
Letters Medal in 2000?
A) Arthur C. Clarke
B) Ray Bradbury
C) Orson Scott Card
Congratulations! You are correct.
B) Ray Bradbury. Click here to read his acceptance speech.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
21) Joyce Carol Oates has been nominated for the
National Book Award six times. How many times as she
won?
A) 1
B) none
D) five
Congratulations! You are correct.
A) 1
Back
to Author Facts and Trivia.
22) What Young People's author was nominated both
in 1996 and 1997 and won in 1997?
A) Carolyn Coman
B) Katherine Paterson
C) Mary Ann McGuigan
D) Han Nolan
Congratulations! You are correct.
D) Han Nolan. She was nominated in 1996 for Send Me Down a Miracle and won in 1997 for Dancing on the Edge.
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
23) In 2000, Nathaniel Philbrick won
the National Book Award for In the Heart of thie
Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. The events
chronicled in the book were the basis for what classic
novel?
A) The Old Man and the Sea
B) Absalom!
Absalom!
C)
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
D)
Moby Dick
Congratulations! You are correct.
D) Moby Dick
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
24) This distinguished poet won the National Book
Award for his collections Ashes and What Work
Is.
A) Gerald Stern
B) James Tate
C) Philip Levine
D) A. R. Ammons
Congratulations! You are correct.
C) Philip Levine
Back to Author Facts and Trivia.
|
