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4. John Masefield was an English poet and writer who lived on a small cul de sac in Greenwich Village. Theodore Dreiser, Djuna Barnes, E. E. Cummings and Marlon Brando also lived on this same famous lane which contains NYC's last functioning gaslamp. What is the name of this legendary Village alley ?
5. What writer listed below was not living NYC's Greenwich Village ? Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Eugene ONeill, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, Hart Crane, John Dos Passos, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Sinclair Lewis, John Reed, Djuna Barnes, Theodore Dreiser, E. E. Cummings and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
7. Broadway and Duane Street was the location of the cigar store of John Anderson (from Poe's story The Mystery of Marie Roget). Edgar Allan Poe lived in a little wooden house at 113 Carmine Street in 1837. Poe wrote Fall of the House of the Usher at a home on 6th Avenue near Waverly Place. Poe wrote the Raven at his farm home in Bloomingdale Village that was on a high bluff, around 84th street between Broadway and West End Avenue. 85 West 3rd Street was Poe's last home before he moved up to the Fordham Cottage (where he stayed until the summer of 1849). What was West 3rd street named when Poe was living there ?
10. Irving Bacheller was president of a club of writers and journalists whose first clubhouse was on the top of Monkey Hill, over an old William street ironmonger's shop. The 1893 clubhouse moved to Captain Kidd's old home at 126 William street (56 Wall Street, or 119-121 Pearl) after William Randolph Hearst bought up Monkey Hill sometime before 1898. Monkey Hill was on William street by Printing House Square on Park Row, which was once called Newspaper Row. That area is now under, and just north of the Brooklyn Bridge. What was the name of this writers club ?
11. A NYC writer named John wrote Ten Days that Shook the World, and lived with his writer wife feminist Louise Bryant. He lived on the same cul de sac as Djuna Barnes who was known for her novel Nightwood. What was John's last name ?
13. Liz Reitell, Dylan Thomas's NYC girlfriend claimed that 18 straight whiskies at the White Horse put this Welsh poet in a coma, who tried to hard to keep up with his wild reputation. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald became to famous too fast, at 23 he was the spokesman for the Jazz Age. His smoking habit most likely killed him, but drinking heavy as his wifes (Zelda Sayre) nervous breakdowns increased helped give him a heart attack. But before both of these drinkers were born (1835) a famous writer fell for his 13-year-old cousin Virginia, before becoming a magazine contributor and editor. Poor nutrition and drinking lead to fever, delirium, madness and ultimately death. Who was this crazy writer ?
14. The king of the surprise endings William Sydney Porter, ended his 48 year life wandering the streets (and bars) of NYC as agitated magazine editors tried to find and sober him up when publishing deadlines approached. What did his readers know him as ?
17. Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Heywood Broun and Edna Ferber were part of a group of writers who met at the Algonquin hotel. Society columns called them the Algonquin Round Table, but what did they call themselves ?
20. Herman Melville's New York Times obituary called him Henry Melville. His novels included: Billy Budd; Redburn: His First Voyage; and his longest novel, which failed during his lifetime, and was responsible for his fading writing career. What was Melville's longest novel and his greatest literary masterpiece that was rediscovered in the 20th century ?
21. Nathaniel was a poet writer from Salem, Mass. who found eternal fame with The Scarlet Letter. What was his last name ?
22. A newspaper writer named Monroe coined the phrase Tin Pot Alley from the sound of many pianos being played in demo rooms at once. To Monroe it sounded like people were pounding on tin pans. What was Monroe's last name ?
23. Walt Whitman hated to miss a night in Charlie's dark basement cave, where light came through glassed-over vaults in the sidewalks. In this famous cellar restaurant, writer Henry Clapp (editor of The Saturday Press in 1858) held court with New York Bohemians. What was the name of Charlie's restaurant that was once at 645 Broadway (by Bleecker Street) ?
24. Brooklyn born but raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Frank starting writing in College before trying a career as a trampoline artist for the Barnum and Bailey. Writing comic books got Franks career jump started when he created adventures for Superman, Batman, Mike Danger and two Captains (Captain Marvel and Captain America). A day after Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), Frank joined the Army Air Corps. As a flight instructor he got married in 1945 and wrote I, the Jury in less than 20 days. The tough detective character from his book made readers of six and a half million copies know his name. But no one knew him as Frank. What name did the world know this great writer as ?
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1. An English writer named William was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. Besides being a navigator William was a privateer for over 12 years. During his journeys this naturalist noted scientific observations by writing in his journal. What was Williams last name ?
2. Alexander was 32 when he organized the writers of the Federalist papers. He wrote the most articles (over 50) out of the bunch. Alexander was born illegitimate and escaped being a pennyless orphan by coming to NYC. What was Alexander's last name ?
3. In 1735, the New York Weekly Journal was the mouthpiece of the Popular party who opposed the government. The first case of libel in NYC, came after two years of sharp attacks from the New York Weekly Journal. Lawyer Andrew Hamilton proved all the charges printed by the New York Weekly Journal were true and hence not libelous. What was the last name of the German immigrant printer of the New York Weekly Journal ?
6. A NYC writer used Diedrich Knickerbocker as a pseudonym as well as Johnathan Oldstyle and Geoffery Crayon. His 1809 book A History of New York, mocked Dutch customs. He also coined the term The Allmighty Dollar. What is the last name of this writer whose first name was named after George Washington ?
7. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was the Republican run New York Evening Post's editor for over 50 years, he gave up poetry to celebrate John Brown as a martyr and leading the NYC citizens towards what ?
8. What famous writer named Thomas who helped start the American revolution as the author of Common Sense, was vilified for his atheism ?
9. In 1883 Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus wrote, Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. What was the title of this poem used on the Statue of Liberty ?
12. T.S. Elliot, Ezra Pound and Dylan Thomas often came to Greenwich Village in NYC to visit a poet named Edward. Edward favorite comic strip was Krazy Kat. He died in 1962 of a brain hemorrhage. What writer were they all visiting ?
15. Jack was the drunken author of The Call of the Wild (only paid a $2,000 flat fee) and John Barleycorn (semi autobiographical) who was living life wild. Jack died of an morphine overdose at 40. What was this author named Jack's last name, who was writing, performing and living homeless in City Hall Park ?
16. Chronic alcoholism caused an internal hemorrhage of a beat writer named Jack who died at the age of 47. Jack stayed at the Marlton Hotel on 8th street by 5th Avenue. Other guests of the Marlton through out the years were Lillian Gish, Julie Andrews, Lenny Bruce, Maggie Smith, John Barrymore, Neil and Carolyn Cassedy, Delmore Schwartz and Mickey Rourke. What was Jack's last name ?
18. Jacob Steendam was a clerk for the Dutch West India Company, who loved writing in 1659. Jacob was the first what in NYC ?
19. Edward Albee read Who's afraid of Virginia _____ in a bathroom at the Ninth Circle theatre at 139 W 10th Street. Albee took this as meaning Who's afraid of living life large. What well known literary writer named Virginia who was depressed, right up to her 1941 suicide was this graffiti written about ?
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