Quiz campus novels

Creators of "Campus Novels": University In Fiction . Quiz.

This quiz is about the authors of ten campus (also called academic) novels. The distinguishing feature of the academic novel is that its action occurs in or around a college or university campus. Given all of the university English departments, it is not surprising that there are a plethora of campus novels or that many of these explore similar themes and have stock characters that represent academic types.

The ten novels in this quiz were published between approximately 1950, when modern academic novels started coming to market, and 2000. All of these novels were written by well regarded novelists who have had commercial success, albeit not necessarily for a campus novel.

I will give you the name of a campus novel and additional information about the book and/or its author. Based upon the clues, the task is to correctly identify each author. I think that question 6 is likely to be the hardest of the quiz. Thus, I introduce this quiz with a photo of the author who is the correct answer to question 6.

Sources: Showalter, "Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents" (University of Rennsylvania Press, 2005), "Benet's Third Edition Reader's Encyclopedia" (Harper & Row, 1987), and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.