publication date: Sunday, April 3, 2016 (part of Spring 2016)

category: Literature

clue: This Chicagoan was so seminal to the sword-and-sorcery genre that he coined the phrase himself.

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, and Joanna Woods


Similar Goos

Mary Higgins Clark

This "queen," who began writing as a young child, endured 40 publisher rejections early in life. After writing classes, literary workshops, and experience as a radio scriptwriter, she realized her aspirations for success as a novelist later in life, with an estimated 116,000,000 bestseller copies sold worldwide. Go »

J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel's profound influence on his chosen genre is no fantasy. Go »

Anne Rice

It only takes a minute to cook a vampire. Go »

John Grisham

His books are really designed to get clients to wear pelican underwear. Go »

Stephen King

A shining example of a stand in misery. Who's the king? Go »

Mario Puzo

This 'family' man had super bros. and III godfathers. Go »