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Do you know what came first in these literary awards, books, and people?
Across
With 31 Across, the first American writer to win the Man Booker prize in 2016.
Along with 34 Across and 18 Down, her first book was published when she was 64, about her childhood living on a prairie.
The first part of a sonnet, consisting of eight lines.
________ Rewarded: Also called Pamela, was the first popular novel about a courtship told from the perspective of the heroine.
He told the first story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Along with 30 Across, VCWC's first anthology (two words).
A is for _______ was the book that introduced Kinsey Millhone.
Written by Upton Sinclair, this royal title had its sequel, The Coal War, published 59 years later -- the current longest time between books (two words).
Along with 25 Down, the author whose books inspired A Trip to the Moon, considered to be the first science fiction movie.
Raymond Chandler’s first and most famous book, after he lost his job as an oil executive (three words).
The first book to win a Pulitzer Prize for Novels, awarded in 1918, about a widower and his daughters. (two words).
The ________: book with the same first and last lines, about a young boy's coming-of-age amidst a rivalry between the Greasers and Socs.
The paper that first published stories about Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (two words).
See 12 Across (two words).
See 5 Across.
The first word coined by Dr. Seuss, appearing in If I Ran the Zoo.
Joseph ________, the first American Consultant in Poetry, a title later known as the Poet Laureate.
See 7 Across.
Along with 3 Down and 16 Down, the oldest English publishing and printing house.
With 13 Down, the first book chronologically in the Chronicles of Narnia.
Down
Month when the first National Novel Writing Month was held, which was moved to November in the second year to take advantage of the “miserable weather.”
Iago's first word in Othello, hinting at his dark nature.
See 35 Across.
With New and 6 Down, America’s first officially-banned book, written by Thomas Morton and published in 1637.
Along with 21 Down, nickname of some of the earliest action books, lurid and sensationalized, named for their price.
See 4 Down.
Character featured in the first popular crossover in literature in an 1885 Mark Twain novel (two words).
See 36 Down.
The first dedicated e-book reader, created by NuvoMedia.
Along with 24 Down, The first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
See 35 Across.
See 7 Across.
The Epic of __________, the oldest known epic poem.
See 5 Down.
See 15 Down.
See 22 Across.
The Adventures of Obadiah _______ is considered the first comic book, and was originally published in several languages in Europe in 1837; also, an aged deer.
With the initials of AB, she has been credited with being the first woman writer to earn a living by her pen (two words).
Noun first appearing in Bleak House by Charles Dickens, though the root word, relating to being dull, had been in use for almost 100 years.