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  • Who was the author of the best selling 1956 fiction book "Don't Go Near the Water"?

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  • 2. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1956 fiction book "Don't Go Near the Water"?

    • A.

      Mary Augusta Ward

    • B.

      William Brinkley

    • C.

      George Barr McCutcheon

    • D.

      Robert Ludlum

    Correct Answer
    B. William Brinkley
  • 3. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1956 nonfiction book "Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language"?

    • A.

      John Grisham

    • B.

      David B. Guralnik

    • C.

      Eugene O'Neill

    • D.

      Durk Pearson And Sandy Shaw

    Correct Answer
    B. David B. Guralnik
  • 4. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1957 fiction book "Rally Round the Flag, Boys"?

    • A.

      Harold Bell Wright

    • B.

      Emerson Hough

    • C.

      Max Shulman

    • D.

      Winston Churchill

    Correct Answer
    C. Max Shulman
  • 5. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1958 fiction book "Doctor Zhivago"?

    • A.

      Pearl S. Buck

    • B.

      Boris Pasternak

    • C.

      Alexander Woollcott

    • D.

      Winston Churchill

    Correct Answer
    B. Boris Pasternak
  • 6. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1959 nonfiction book "The Status Seekers"?

    • A.

      Martin Cruz Smith

    • B.

      Vance Packard

    • C.

      Marianne Williamson

    • D.

      Douglas Fairbanks

    Correct Answer
    B. Vance Packard
  • 7. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1960 fiction book "Ourselves To Know"?

    • A.

      Leo Buscaglia

    • B.

      Andre Maurois

    • C.

      Danielle Steel

    • D.

      John O'Hara

    Correct Answer
    D. John O'Hara
  • 8. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1961 fiction book "Mila 18"?

    • A.

      Leon Uris

    • B.

      Basil King

    • C.

      Colin Powell

    • D.

      Harvey And Marilyn Diamond

    Correct Answer
    A. Leon Uris
  • 9. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1962 fiction book "A Shade of Difference"?

    • A.

      Allen Drury

    • B.

      Walter D. Edmonds

    • C.

      Lin Yutang

    • D.

      Danielle Steel

    Correct Answer
    A. Allen Drury
  • 10. 

    Who was the author of the 1963 fiction book "The Shoes of the Fisherman"?

    • A.

      Morris L. West

    • B.

      John P. Marquand

    • C.

      Booth Tarkington

    • D.

      Robert W. Service

    Correct Answer
    A. Morris L. West
  • 11. 

    Who was the author of the 1963 nonfiction book "Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket"?

    • A.

      James Hilton

    • B.

      Emily Post

    • C.

      William J. Bennett

    • D.

      Charles M. Schulz

    Correct Answer
    D. Charles M. Schulz
  • 12. 

    Who was the author of the 1964 fiction book "Herzog"?

    • A.

      Saul Bellow

    • B.

      Richard Llewellyn

    • C.

      A. J. Cronin

    • D.

      Ellen Glasgow

    Correct Answer
    A. Saul Bellow
  • 13. 

    Who was the author of the 1964 nonfiction book "Christmas Is Together-Time"?

    • A.

      Tom Brokaw

    • B.

      Sinclair Lewis

    • C.

      Richard Paul Evans

    • D.

      Charles M. Schulz

    Correct Answer
    D. Charles M. Schulz
  • 14. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1965 nonfiction book "Folk Medicine"?

    • A.

      D. C. Jarvis

    • B.

      Harold Bell Wright

    • C.

      Frederick Lewis Allen

    • D.

      Marcia Davenport

    Correct Answer
    A. D. C. Jarvis
  • 15. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1966 fiction book "The Secret of Santa Vittoria"?

    • A.

      Richard Bachman

    • B.

      Tom Clancy

    • C.

      James Bryce

    • D.

      Robert Crichton

    Correct Answer
    D. Robert Crichton
  • 16. 

    Who was the author of the best selling 1968 fiction book "Christy"?

    • A.

      Danielle Steel

    • B.

      Catherine Marshall

    • C.

      Meredith Nicholson

    • D.

      Sinclair Lewis

    Correct Answer
    B. Catherine Marshall

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