Answers To: Author! Author! By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved A, 3; B, 1; C, 2 True. The Western tales of Karl May outsell such world-renown German authors as G&uumlnter Grass, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann. A, 3; B, 5; C, 4; D, 1; E, 2 True. Although, V.S. Naipaul left his Trinidad birthplace in 1950. D. Isabel Allende's father, Salvador Allende, was the first and only Marxist elected as head of state in Latin America. He died during a coup in 1973. False. B. Wongar's ancestry is even more unlikely -- he is of Serbian descent. A, 2; B, 3; C, 1. Of these authors, Edna O'Brien is the only one who writes about Ireland. However, her work was often banned in Ireland, so she moved to London. C. The best example of a flyting match is in the sixteenth-century Scots poem Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie. False. The impulsive Simenon was quite different from Maigret. A notorious roué, Simenon was married twice and claimed to have slept with 10,000 women! C. The author of such haunting works as Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness and A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe has often written fictionalized versions of his tribulations in raising his mentally impaired son, who is a musical prodigy.