Literature Pavlov Question - Complete Literary Canons

[Leander]

Another perspective on this would be, outside of native English language authors, who would be likely to end up as a Jeopardy question? I'd be willing to bet half of those mentioned so far have very little chance of coming up.

I disagree. A good rule of thumb is, a non-English-language novelist has little chance of coming up in a Jeopardy clue unless there is a Hollywood movie based on one of his or her novels.

I think this is a good rule of thumb too, but it still rules out almost all the Latin American, Asian, and African authors mentioned in the thread so far, and a couple of European ones too, which is the same point I was trying to make in a different way.

[ElendilPickle]

Spoiler for 6/28 episode...

Spoiler

After today's FJ, it looks like it would be helpful to know something about John Updike's novels.

Whoops! Sorry, y'all.

[MinnesotaMyron]

I'd add Carson McCullers to this list. Although (according to the j-archive) her last work Clock without Hands hasn't been asked about, her other three novels and a short story collection all have been.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)
The Member of the Wedding (1946)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951) [short story collection]
Clock Without Hands (1961)

-M

[iowabelle]

May I say... John Updike?
Kerouac?

And, from time to time, usually associated with Mississippi, Mr. Faulkner and Miss Eudora Welty.

by the way, I'd like to learn more about poetry, so I'd really like to write and post a poetry pavlov.

about Shakespeare, I reviewed the Idiot's (or Dummy's) Guide to Shakespeare, and it really helped.

[MinnesotaMyron]

by the way, I'd like to learn more about poetry, so I'd really like to write and post a poetry pavlov.

No time like the present!

[opusthepenguin]

Has anyone assembled a Pavlovian list for foreign authors, roughly along the lines of

Colombia = Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Argentina = Jorge Luis Borges
Chile = Pablo Neruda or Isabel Allende
Russian dramatist = Chekhov
etc.

Norwegian playwright/author = Henrik Ibsen
Swedish Playwright = August Strindberg
Russian Poet = Alexander Pushkin
Irish novelist = James Joyce
Irish poet = William Butler Yeats (except once it was Seamus Heaney for his Beowulf translation)
Irish playwright = Shaw or Beckett or Wilde or O'Casey or Yeats (but not Joyce), so don't get tripped up.
Scottish poet = Rrrrrrrrrrrobbie Burns (except once in JEOPARDY BOOBY TRAPS where it was Walter Scott)
Danish philosopher = Søren Kierkegaard