# Name That Author! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047 "2008-05-29T18:18:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/21 "2008-05-30T17:10:52Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] We’ll give a point for **Dead Cat** ’s unnecessarily thorough listing of all the people known to contribute to the Guide. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I really hope that wasn’t from memory. Heck I couldn’t even remember Ford. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/22 "2008-05-30T17:29:03Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] … previously Lig [forgets surname] … [/QUOTE] Lig Lury, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/23 "2008-05-30T17:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Death by Double Fault St John Lord Merridew, from Anthony Schaeffer’s **Sleuth**. **Stay Alive** ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/24 "2008-05-30T19:11:34Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] Here’s one to figure out: _The Books of Bokonon_ [/QUOTE] From Vonnegut’s _Cat’s Cradle_, I assume they were written by Bokonon, whose given name escapes me. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/25 "2008-05-30T19:19:46Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] St John Lord Merridew, from Anthony Schaeffer’s **Sleuth**. [/QUOTE] Half a point for **Cal**. Merridew was the detective within the fictional mysteries in _Sleuth_, but I don’t remember if he was the credited author. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/26 "2008-05-30T19:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] From Vonnegut’s _Cat’s Cradle_, I assume they were written by Bokonon, whose given name escapes me. [/QUOTE] Lionel Johnson, mispronounced in their dialect Spoiled in case someone else wants to chime in! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/27 "2008-05-30T21:05:38Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] Half a point for **Cal**. Merridew was the detective within the fictional mysteries in _Sleuth_, but I don’t remember if he was the credited author. [/QUOTE] So if **Cal** gets half a point, can I have half a point for post #18? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/28 "2008-05-31T20:01:31Z")
**The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism** by Emmanuel Goldstein. No, I didn’t Google. **Stay Alive** - James Bond. He is writing it near the beginning of _Goldfinger_. **The Rooster Crowed at Midnight**. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/29 "2008-05-31T20:20:02Z")
Yes: “Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” was from 1984, by Emmanuel Goldstein. “A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy’s Triumphant Story” was a real book that alleged to be the true life story of Anthony Godby Johnson, but which turned out to be a [hoax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Godby_Johnson). Biffy the Elephant Shrew = 3 Jonathan Chance, OtakuLoki, Shodan = 2 Oredigger77 = 1.5 Dead Cat, pravnik, cmkeller, surok, MadtheSwine, Signagirl, Robot Arm = 1 Cal Meacham, fachverwirrt, Scarlett67 = 0.5 > [@still remaining...](#): > > The Lonely Buddha (hint: the book was Dana Scully’s favorite) > Samuel’s Castle (hint: the author was played by Diane Varsi) > Anslem (hint: the author lived on a space station) > Babes in Babylon (hint: the author was voiced by Orson Welles) > Deep Six (hint: the author is a special agent in a current police procedural TV show) > Love Hurts (hint: the author was the villainess in a movie) > Carnovsky > The Green Enemy > The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick (hint: the author is a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little) > The Rooster Crowed at Midnight (submitted by Shodan) ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/30 "2008-05-31T21:25:36Z")
I can’t solve any of the remaining ones, but I still want to add my own: _Yojimbo’s Japanese-English Dictionary_ ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/31 "2008-06-01T04:42:09Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] **The Rooster Crowed at Midnight**. [/QUOTE] Isn’t that the one that they were all reading on an episode of MASH? ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/32 "2008-06-01T08:30:02Z")
Two to add: **Blood On The Badge** **Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt** ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/33 "2008-06-01T09:00:04Z")
Blood on the Badge was the book Ron Glass’s character on Barney Miller was always working on. (can’t remember the character’s name, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/34 "2008-06-01T13:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] Isn’t that the one that they were all reading on an episode of MASH? [/QUOTE] You guys are _good_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/35 "2008-06-02T05:20:02Z")
All right, it looks like these are too tough. So: The Lonely Buddha, by Jose Chung, played by Charles Nelson Reilly on _X-Files_ and on _Millenium_. Samuel’s Castle, by Allison MacKenzie in _Return to Peyton Place_. The character was played by Diane Varsi in the first film, Carol Lynley in the sequel, and by Mia Farrow in the first serial. Anslem was by Jake Sisko, son of Benjamin Sisko of _Deep Space Nine_. He wrote the book under the influence of yet another brain-sucking alien on the episode “The Muse.” Babes in Babylon was by Robin Masters of _Magnum P.I._ Deep Six was by Timothy McGee of the TV show NCIS. The book was written under the pseudonym Thorn E. Gemcity. Love Hurts was by Catherine Tramell, villainess of _Basic Instinct_, played by Sharon Stone. The book was written under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf. Carnovsky, a ribald, coming-of-age romp, was by Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth’s alter-alter-ego in _Zuckerman Unbound_. It was a parallel to Roth’s real-life book _Portnoy’s Complaint_. The Green Enemy was by John Frederick Morlar, referenced in the novel _The Medusa Touch_ by Peter Van Greenaway. The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick was by Rosie M. Banks, of the “Jeeves” and “Drones Club” books by P.G. Wodehouse. Hmm… looks like I have to make a new list! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/36 "2008-06-02T13:11:14Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] I really hope that wasn’t from memory. Heck I couldn’t even remember Ford. [/QUOTE] It was - it’s my all-time favourite novel, I’ve read it about 10 times. > [@MHaye](#): > > Lig Lury, Jr. That’s the one, thanks! It could also be argued that Vann Harl contributed nothing to the _Guide_, except perhaps its downfall, but I won’t hijack this [del]building[/del] thread any more. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/37 "2008-06-02T21:09:54Z")
Another for the list - Grate Expectations ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/38 "2008-06-03T02:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Another for the list - Grate Expectations [/QUOTE] Edmund Wells (but he’s not very popular) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/39 "2008-06-03T03:29:37Z")
Correct. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047/40 "2008-06-03T23:43:36Z")
Another for the list The Marylandiad [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-author/451047.md?page=1)