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John Yossarian is the protagonist of this 1961 satirical war novel by Joseph Heller. The book's title has come to represent a kind of logical paradox.
The book was made into a film adaptation in 1970 and a miniseries in 2019. In 1994, Heller published a sequel to the novel titled Closing Time.
Name the author of the book In Cold Blood (1966), about the real-life murder of the Clutter family in rural Kansas?
Capote and his childhood friend Harper Lee traveled to Kansas to interview friends and neighbors of the victims. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith would later be arrested, convicted and executed for the murders.
What well-known writer penned Travels with Charley, about a roadtrip the author took with his dog in 1960?
Charley was Steinbeck's poodle. The trip was made in a specially built camper named Rocinante, after Don Quixote's horse.
A Moveable Feast (1964) is a memoir about life in 1920s Paris from this American writer.
Hemingway started the book in the 1950s after finding his old notebooks that had been left in the basement of the Hôtel Ritz 30 years prior. It would eventually published posthumously in 1964, following Hemingway's 1961 suicide.
Fill in the blank to complete the name of the novel by Ursula K. LeGuin that's set on a fictional island archipelago: A Wizard of ___ (1968).
LeGuin introduced the archipelago in her short story "The Word of Unbinding" (1964) and it would eventually become the setting for six novels.
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