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(Guesses Are Welcome)
1) What was Stephen King's first professional sale? (answered)
2) What was Dan Brown's occupation prior to the release of "The Da Vinci Code"?
3) What was the cause of Tennessee Williams' death? (answered)
4) Who is the best selling American writer still alive?
5) What sport did Tom Wolfe excel in both in high school and college?
6) What American writer/poet wrote a short, short story called "The Kool Aid Wino"? (answered)
7) What famous late night television host wrote 54 books? (answered)
8) What famous writer was Best Man at novelist Richard Farina's wedding? (answered)
9) What writer did Thomas Pynchon dedicate "Gravity's Rainbow" to? (answered)
More questions from Part 1
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Harker
(14,012 posts)5... Tennis?
8... Kerouac?
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(All good guesses, though)
Harker
(14,012 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)These threads are supposed to be fun
(most of my guesses are wrong, too)
Harker
(14,012 posts)Thanks for the threads, Red.
I never get dispirited.
Response to red dog 1 (Original post)
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Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)I don't remember the magazine he sold it to
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)He sold it to "Startling Mystery Stories" in 1967
Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)I read years ago that he choked to death on the lid of a pill bottle. Don't know if it's true.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)musette_sf
(10,200 posts)has to be Steve Allen. Also writer of 1000s of songs.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(I heard that he wrote a song every day)
Grisham?
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(Good guess)
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)is in question # 9
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I still can't believe it's *not* Stephen King...
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(Aldous Huxley taught French at Eton)
berniesandersmittens
(11,343 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)(Story is from "Trout Fishing in America"
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)Name another book of his that became a major motion picture, one only please without looking it up.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Did he write that?
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)Very good!
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(It was a wild guess)
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)Response to The Magistrate (Reply #29)
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YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)Good! He had quite a few movies under his belt including eaters of the dead! He was a very cool and amazing guy!
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)That's a pretty good flick.
Most of what we know of Viking life comes from 'visitor's guides' prepared by Moslem merchants embarking on journey to the north.
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)Renamed the 13th warrior. Hell of a movie! I love all of all of his books and read most of them!!
berniesandersmittens
(11,343 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)Response to red dog 1 (Original post)
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red dog 1
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a circus when he was 13?
(Hint: Ellison worked as a "gopher" for the small circus he joined)
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)You read that?
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(It won the O. Henry Award and it was in a popular magazine)
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)UTUSN
(70,683 posts)red dog 1
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canon in a ceremony funded by a famous actor friend.
Who was that friend?
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 1, 2021, 06:13 PM - Edit history (1)
(approximately)
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)while he was still in high school?
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(It was in 1970)
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)(Considered by many to be one of the greatest celebrity profiles ever written)