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It's time to put your literary knowledge to the test.

Can You Identify A Writer By Reading A Random Paragraph?

This is a paragraph from Stephen King's _The Stand_.

Who wrote this?

This is from Zadie Smith's _White Teeth._

This is from Jonathan Franzen's novel _Freedom_.

This is from Margaret Atwood's _The Handmaid's Tale._

This is from Joan Didion's _Play It As It Lays_.

This is from Ernest Hemingway's _The Sun Also Rises_.

This is from Bret Easton Ellis' _The Rules of Attraction._

This is from _Americanah_ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

This is from Donna Tartt's novel _The Secret History_.

This is from Alice Munro's short story collection _The Progress of Love._ Specifically, it's from "Miles City Montana."

This is from David Baldacci's _Zero Day._

This is from Jennifer Egan's _A Visit from the Goon Squad_.

This is from Junot Diaz's _The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao._

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Can You Identify A Writer By Reading A Random Paragraph?

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