Quiz! Hot Authors

Curious quiz, May 2025

May Day marks the season of frivolity and fertility so here’s a silly quiz where you have to guess the name of the author by their sexiest portrait/photograph.

Some of these might be slightly stretching the definition of ‘hot’ but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and remember that this is relative to other writers not the Henry Cavills of the world. I’m a heterosexual woman so these are all men, but there’s a bonus homoerotic question at the end.

Enjoy!

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BONUS HOMEOEROTIC QUESTION:

One of these authors wrote the following lines about another of the authors in this list. Who was the author and who were they writing about?

“I feel that this [x] has dropped germinous seeds into my soul. He expands and deepens down, the more I contemplate him; and further, and further, shoots his strong New England roots into the hot soil of my Southern soul.”

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Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, Diego Velázquez (1630)

Answers

1. Jack Kerouac

2. John Keats

3. Anton Chekhov

4. Ralph Ellison

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne

6. Christopher Marlowe

7. Hanif Kureishi

8. Herman Melville

9. Charles Dickens

10. George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Bonus homoerotic question:

This is Herman Melville writing about Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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