Identify the author by their biography detail/fact/episode. Write the full name of the person. The first letter of the name and surname are already given. Write the full name with the first letter. You get 2 scores for each correct answer and 0 for the wrong one. 1. She was the granddaughter of novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. V__________ W__________ 2. He accidentally shot his common-law wife Joan Vollmer dead at a party during a drunken game of ‘William Tell’. W__________ B__________ 3. He invented the name Vanessa. J__________ S__________ 4. In 1974, he predicted the internet of the year 2001. A__________ C. C__________ 5. He once stayed up all night composing this anagram of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone L__________ C__________ 6. He joined the army under the name Silas Tomkyn Cumberbatch. S__________ T__________ C__________ 7. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. In his books he opposed philosophy of heart to the philosophy of mind. C__________ D__________ 8. She disliked her creation, calling him ‘a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep’. A__________ C__________ 9. He was so moved by the novel “Jane Eyre” that he broke down in tears in front of his butler. W__________ M__________ T__________ 10. His true name was William Sydney Porter. O’_________________