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A few of the words

TWAIN
Samuel Clemens took the name from riverboat slang. Mark twain meant two fathoms deep, a safe depth for a steamboat on the Mississippi.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BRONTE
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne all published in 1847 under the male-sounding pen names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TOLSTOY
War and Peace first appeared in installments in the Russian Messenger in the 1860s, long before it became the famous doorstop.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ORWELL
Eric Blair chose the pen name George Orwell, borrowing the name of the River Orwell in Suffolk, England.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Authors word search, free and printable, with the surnames you'd find alphabetized on any library shelf, from Tolstoy to Twain.

About Authors on Every Shelf

Walk down the fiction aisle of nearly any public library and the spines read like a roll call: Austen, Hugo, Eliot, Steinbeck, shelved in strict alphabetical order. Some of these writers lived in drafty English parsonages, some in Russian country estates, and one learned the river from a pilot's wheel. Their names stay on the shelf because someone keeps checking the books out.

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