Memorize these and recognize 23.2% of all Short Stories clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walter Mitty | 5 | In the last paragraph, this James Thurber guy goes from smoking by a drugstore to bravely facing a firing squad |
| 2 | Rip Van Winkle | 5 | Encountering one that snarls at him in an 1819 work, this title character exclaims, "My very dog... has forgotten me!" |
| 3 | O. Henry | 4 | While in prison for embezzlement, he published his 1st short story, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" |
| 4 | (Edgar Allan) Poe | 3 | Montresor seeks revenge on wine connoisseur Fortunato in his 1846 tale "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| 5 | Stephen Crane | 2 | He wrote about a "Red Badge" & switched colors for the story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" |
| 6 | New Orleans | 2 | George Washington Cable's 1879 collection "Old Creole Days" contained 7 stories set in this city |
| 7 | Miss Marple | 2 | Agatha Christie's "The Tuesday Club Murders" features 13 tales of this sleuth & her friends sharing crime stories |
| 8 | John Steinbeck | 2 | In 1938 he published "The Long Valley", a collection including "The Red Pony" |
| 9 | J.D. Salinger | 2 | "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" & "The Laughing Man" are 2 of the "Nine Stories" put out by this author |
| 10 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 2 | Saul Bellow was responsible for translating this Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" into English |
| 11 | Ernest Hemingway | 2 | His "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" first appeared in Esquire magazine in 1936 |
| 12 | Dorothy Parker | 2 | Hazel Morse was her "Big Blonde" |
| 13 | "The Lottery" | 2 | A stone hit the unfortunate winner of this 1948 Shirley Jackson tale in the side of the head |
| 14 | Eudora Welty | 2 | She began writing short stories while working for the W.P.A. in Mississippi |
| 15 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 2 | Salem native who wrote about witchcraft in the Salem area in an 1835 story, "Young Goodman Brown" |
| 16 | a leaf | 2 | The heroine of an O. Henry story believes she will die when the last one of these falls from the ivy |
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