Literary Geography Bee
1.Thornton Wilder wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1927. It’s the story of several people who die in the collapse of a rope bridge in what country?
2.Alan Paton wrote Cry the Beloved Country in 1948 about an Anglican priest searching for
his son. What country was Alan Paton from?
3.Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast is a memoir of his years in what European city?
4.Pearl Buck won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1938 for her depictions of peasant life
in what country?
5.Isabelle Allende’s The House of the Spirits follows four generations of the Trueba family
of what South American country?
6.Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia is set in what Great Plains state?
7.Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional
town of Maycomb, in what Southern state?
8.Where is James Michener’s novel Caravans set?
9.Where does Ira Levin’s 1972 novel The Stepford Wives take place?
10.Where in England do James Herriot’s stories of life as a country veterinarian take
place? (The books include All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and
Beautiful.
11. Where is Jack London’s 1903 novella, Call of the Wild set?
12.Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle exposed the meatpacking industry in what city?
13.In what country are the Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters set?
14.The Big Sleep, featuring Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective Phillip Marlowe, is
set in what city?
15.In Katherine Ann Porter’s novel, Ship of Fools, to what country is the cruise ship
heading?
16.Where is John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden set?
17.Where does the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe take place?
18.On what river does Marlow travel in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness?
19.Dorothy Gale is swept away from her home in what state in L. Frank Baum’s fantasy
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
20.One Hundred Years of Solitude author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a native of what
country?