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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 3 - Literature - Historical Fiction   
      
   > 1. To great acclaim, this British author's novel "I, Claudius",   
   >    about the ancient Roman emperor, was made into a BBC-TV   
   >    mini-series first broadcast in 1976.  He spent a great deal of   
   >    his life living on the Spanish island of Majorca ["ma-YORK-a"]   
   >    and was also renowned as a poet and interpreter of ancient   
   >    Greek myths.   
      
   Graves   
      
   > 2. Famed for his historical romantic novels set in medieval England,   
   >    this author who lived 1771-1832 was already well regarded when   
   >    he published "Ivanhoe" in 1820.  All told, he published dozens   
   >    of novels, short stories, and poems.   
      
   Scott   
      
   > 3. This British author died from a stroke in 2022.  She won the   
   >    Booker Prize for her novel "Wolf Hall" in 2009, and again for its   
   >    sequel "Bring Up the Bodies" in 2012.  Both novels, and a third,   
   >    "The Mirror and the Light", concern the machinations of Thomas   
   >    Cromwell, one of King Henry VIII's chief ministers.   
      
   Mantel   
      
   > 6. Like , this German writer wrote about many subjects   
   >    during his illustrious career.  In 1929, he, too, won the Nobel   
   >    Prize in Literature, and again like Pamuk, got into trouble with   
   >    his government, forcing him to flee Germany in 1933.  He often   
   >    wrote historical novels, the most famous being the four-part   
   >    "Joseph and His Brothers", published between 1926 and 1943,   
   >    which retells the biblical stories of Jacob and Joseph.   
      
   Grass; Hesse   
      
   > 7. Popular fiction writers often delve into history for subject   
   >    matter.  One of the biggest-selling contemporary authors   
   >    bases her novels in 18th-century Scottish history, spinning   
   >    fantasy tartan epics that include time travel.  The first novel,   
   >    "Outlander", has given its name to the series and to a cultish   
   >    TV adaptation.   
      
   Gabaldon   
      
   > 8. Set in New York City from 1902 until 1912, "Ragtime" is this US   
   >    author's most famous novel.  Like many historical works of   
   >    fiction, it features real personalities as characters -- in   
   >    this case, Booker T. Washington, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan,   
   >    Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit, and   
   >    Harry K. Thaw, among many others.   
      
   Doctorow   
      
   > 9. Another author with a cycle of novels, in this case dubbed his   
   >    "Asian Saga", published six books in that series, including   
   >    early ventures such as "King Rat" and "Tai-Pan" in the 1960s.   
   >    In 1975 he released "Shogun", which tells the tale of an English   
   >    sailor who travels in 1600 to feudal Japan and becomes immersed   
   >    in that isolated country's culture.   
      
   Clavell   
      
   > 10. This author, born in Wales, is known for writing spy thrillers,   
   >    but in 1989 he launched a series of historical novels with "The   
   >    Pillars of the Earth", set in medieval England and chronicling   
   >    the building of a cathedral in a small English village.  So   
   >    successful was that book that he went on to four more historical   
   >    novels, now known as the "Kingsbridge" series.  They take place   
   >    in various centuries, including the very recent "The Armour of   
   >    Light", set at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.   
      
   Follett   
      
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