WordsDay reader contest: name that wordsmith!

Posted on November 13, 2008 by under Arts & Literature [ Comments: 6 ]

We have a new WordsDay graphic because somebody *cough* Mackowski *cough* insisted that we needed one. So here it is.

Now, a little fun. The first S&R reader to accurately identify the 15 authors shown, in order from left to right, wins … well, our enduring admiration. It ain’t much, but what do you want for nothing?

Submit your answers in the comment box.


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6 Comments

  1. Lex, November 13, 2008 at 3:51 pm :

    Oh man, and such little pictures too…i’ll be back.


  2. Ilgattapardo, November 13, 2008 at 4:15 pm :

    1 WB Yeats
    2 Machiavelli
    3 Shakespeare
    4 Ian McEwan
    5 Alice Walker
    6 Papa Hemingway
    7 Garcia-Marquez
    8 Rumor Godden (big guess)
    9 JF Rowling
    10 TC Boyle
    11 Doris Lessing
    12 No fucking idea
    13 Evelyn Waugh
    14 Isabelle Allende
    15 Mary Shelley


  3. Dr. Slammy, November 13, 2008 at 4:24 pm :

    That’s not bad, Ilgattapardo. You got nine right.


  4. Ubertramp, November 13, 2008 at 5:01 pm :

    Bah. I tried cheating by using Ilgattapardo’s list, but all I can add is #4 is really William Gibson. #10 is Neal Stephenson.


  5. Dr. Slammy, November 13, 2008 at 5:07 pm :

    So this is a group exercise now, is it?


  6. Ubertramp, November 13, 2008 at 5:16 pm :

    Hey. I’m practically illiterate. I’m lucky to know half of those. heh. At least I didn’t post which ones on that other list I thought were right. I figured out 8 others. :)


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