ROUND 7: "Black" literature

All questions in this round in some way involve the word "black".


1. Name the Scottish Booker Prize winner who wrote the novel Black Dogs.

A. Ian McEwen


2. Who wrote the children's novel Black Beauty?

A. Anna Sewell


3. What 19th-century French novelist wrote "The Red and the Black"? His 
   novels cover the period during and just after the Napoleonic Wars.

A. Stendhal (pen-name of Henri Beyle; accept either)


4. Who wrote the memoir and exposé "Black Like Me"?

A. John Howard Griffin


5. "Black's" is the name of the standard dictionary in which profession?

A. the law


6. What book on a recent military event, since made into a movie 
   did journalist Mark Bowden publish in 1999?

A. Black Hawk Down


7. Name the Quebec premier whose biography Conrad Black published in 1977.

A. Maurice Duplessis


8. What novelist and essayist wrote the autobiographical book "Black Boy"?

A. Richard Wright


9. "The Souls of Black Folk", published in 1903, is a major study of black
   history and culture in the US. Name the academic and activist who 
   wrote it.

A. W.E.B. DuBois


10. Name the James Ellroy novel that retells the 1947 murder of a Hollywood
    actress. The title mentions the flower that was her nickname.

A. The Black Dahlia