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Biographies of Literary Agents

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Which literary agent represented J.R.R. Tolkien?

  1. Christopher Tolkien

  2. Stanley Unwin

  3. Rayner Unwin

  4. C.S. Lewis


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Stanley Unwin was the literary agent who represented J.R.R. Tolkien and helped him publish his famous works, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Who was the literary agent for Charles Dickens?

  1. John Forster

  2. William Makepeace Thackeray

  3. Charlotte Brontë

  4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

John Forster was the literary agent and friend of Charles Dickens who helped him negotiate contracts and manage his literary career.

Which literary agent represented Ernest Hemingway?

  1. Maxwell Perkins

  2. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. Gertrude Stein

  4. Ezra Pound


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Maxwell Perkins was the literary agent who discovered and edited Ernest Hemingway's early works, including The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.

Who was the literary agent for Virginia Woolf?

  1. Leonard Woolf

  2. T.S. Eliot

  3. Vita Sackville-West

  4. Roger Fry


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Leonard Woolf was the literary agent and husband of Virginia Woolf who helped her publish her works and manage her literary career.

Which literary agent represented James Joyce?

  1. Sylvia Beach

  2. Ezra Pound

  3. Harriet Weaver

  4. Samuel Beckett


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sylvia Beach was the literary agent and owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris who helped James Joyce publish his controversial novel Ulysses.

Who was the literary agent for F. Scott Fitzgerald?

  1. Maxwell Perkins

  2. Ernest Hemingway

  3. Zelda Fitzgerald

  4. Edmund Wilson


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Maxwell Perkins was the literary agent who discovered and edited F. Scott Fitzgerald's early works, including This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.

Which literary agent represented D.H. Lawrence?

  1. Jessie Chambers

  2. Katherine Mansfield

  3. John Middleton Murry

  4. Bertrand Russell


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Jessie Chambers was the literary agent and friend of D.H. Lawrence who helped him publish his early works, including Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow.

Who was the literary agent for Ezra Pound?

  1. T.S. Eliot

  2. Harriet Weaver

  3. William Carlos Williams

  4. Hilda Doolittle


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

T.S. Eliot was the literary agent and friend of Ezra Pound who helped him publish his early works, including The Waste Land and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.

Which literary agent represented Gertrude Stein?

  1. Sylvia Beach

  2. Alice B. Toklas

  3. Carl Van Vechten

  4. Sherwood Anderson


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Carl Van Vechten was the literary agent and friend of Gertrude Stein who helped her publish her early works, including Three Lives and The Making of Americans.

Who was the literary agent for William Faulkner?

  1. Malcolm Cowley

  2. Robert Penn Warren

  3. Caroline Gordon

  4. Hart Crane


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Malcolm Cowley was the literary agent and friend of William Faulkner who helped him publish his early works, including The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.

Which literary agent represented John Steinbeck?

  1. Elizabeth Otis

  2. Pascal Covici

  3. Bennett Cerf

  4. Alfred A. Knopf


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Elizabeth Otis was the literary agent and wife of John Steinbeck who helped him publish his early works, including Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

Who was the literary agent for Ernest Hemingway?

  1. Maxwell Perkins

  2. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. Gertrude Stein

  4. Ezra Pound


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Maxwell Perkins was the literary agent who discovered and edited Ernest Hemingway's early works, including The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.

Which literary agent represented James Joyce?

  1. Sylvia Beach

  2. Ezra Pound

  3. Harriet Weaver

  4. Samuel Beckett


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sylvia Beach was the literary agent and owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris who helped James Joyce publish his controversial novel Ulysses.

Who was the literary agent for F. Scott Fitzgerald?

  1. Maxwell Perkins

  2. Ernest Hemingway

  3. Zelda Fitzgerald

  4. Edmund Wilson


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Maxwell Perkins was the literary agent who discovered and edited F. Scott Fitzgerald's early works, including This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.

Which literary agent represented D.H. Lawrence?

  1. Jessie Chambers

  2. Katherine Mansfield

  3. John Middleton Murry

  4. Bertrand Russell


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Jessie Chambers was the literary agent and friend of D.H. Lawrence who helped him publish his early works, including Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow.

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