SOME NOVELISTS HIT the jackpot with their first publication: J. K. Rowling and her debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), for example. Other first novels that are still widely read today include William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954), Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (1920). But how many of these overlooked or lesser-known first published novels can you pair with their authors?
1. Crome Yellow (1921)
2. Poor Folk (1846)
3. Player Piano (1952)
4. The Voyage Out (1915)
5. Grimus (1975)
6. Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934)
7. The Town and the City (1950)
8. Cup of Gold (1929)
ANSWERS
1. Aldous Huxley.
2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
3. Kurt Vonnegut.
4. Virginia Woolf.
5. Salman Rushdie.
6. Zora Neale Hurston.
7. Jack Kerouac.
8. John Steinbeck.