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What 20th-century muckracker spent the latter years of his life investigating ancient Athens for his book The Trial of Socrates?

Yesterday's answer: Winston Churchill's

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What statesman's six-volume series The Second World War opens with The Gathering Storm?

Yesterday's answer: The Annoyance Bureau

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What agency, according to a Lucy Frank book, controls everything from screaming babies to unopenable pistachio nuts?

Yesterday's answer: Susan Veerland

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Who wrote The Passion of Artemisia, about the first woman painter elected to Italy's famed Accademia dell'Arte?

Yesterday's answer: Christopher Marlowe

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What 29-year-old contemporary of Shakespeare's was stabbed to death while arguing over the bill at Eleanor Bull's tavern?

Yesterday's answer: Mexico and Poland

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What two James Michener books were named after nations?

Yesterday's answer: The Snow Leopard

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What Balzac novel concerns Lisbeth Fischer's plans for vengeance on her more fortunate relations?

Yesterday's answer: Cousin Bette

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What Megan McDonal heroine has a bug-eathing plant named "Jaws" and a brother she calls "Stink"?

Yesterday's answer: Candace Bushnell

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What author loosed 4 Blondes protagonist Janey Wilcox on the Hamptons, in Trading Up?

Yesterday's answer: Edward Gorey

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Who sketched mysteries like The Fraught Sette and The Dripping Faucet from the comfort of Elephant House in Yarmouthport, Massachuesetts?

Yesterday's answer: The Hundred Secret Senses

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What supernatural Amy Tan novel opens: "My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes"?

Yesterday's answer: Doga

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What Jennifer Brilliant book on yoga for pooches presents asanas like the Happy Puppy and the Pup's Pose?

Yesterday's answer: J.D. Salinger

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What reclusive novelist published nine short stories in 1953 under the enigmatic title Nine Stories?

Yesterday's answer: My Friend Rabbit

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What Eric Rohmann book finds Rabbit recruiting a bunch of animals to help retrieve poor Mouse's airplane from a tree?

Yesterday's answer: Primary Colors

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What anonymously authored 1996 bestseller includes the acknowledgment: "I would like to thank some people who don't know who I am"?

Yesterday's answer: Ngaio Marsh

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What National Book Award winner did Carlos EEire originally plan to title Kiss the Lizard, Jesus?

Yesterday's answer: Ticket to Ride

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What refrain from Young E. Allison's sea shanty Derelict echoes throughout Treasure Island?

Yesterday's answer: Daniel Pinkwater

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What author sent the Snarkout Boys to battle the Avocado of Death and the Baconburg Horror?

Yesterday's answer: Clive Barker

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What horror writer received instant acclaim in 1984 for his debut three-volume Books of Blood series?

Yesterday's answer: Jayne Ann Krentz

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Who's written 55 books under her own name, and 77 as Stephanie James, Amanda Glass, Amanda Quick, Jayne Taylor, Jayne Bentley or Jayne Castle?

Yesterday's answer: Italy