Literary riddles

I am trying to import a game, forgive me PB, which is very popular on another forum I am on. It consists in proposing a riddle about an known author(poetry or prose writer), work or anything related to both. For example, one can ask about a known literary figure or event or have to guess the name of the author by a given biographical detail.

The challenge for the author of the riddle is to propose a riddle that is neither to difficult nor to easy for its readers.

The challenge for the readers is to ask good questions.

Winner is the one who with the definitive answer( there maybe partial solutions)

I´ll start with what I think is a very easy riddle.

I am looking for an author with a pen name derived of a nautical reference. There is also a river that is emblematic for some of his fiction.

I am looking for

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Originally Posted by Danik 2016

I am trying to import a game, forgive me PB

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Not at all, Danik. It smacks of fun. I can tell the answer already, though, so I'll let others guess for now. If they get stumped, I'll take my shot.

Thanks PB. I'm sure that you know the answer.

I forgot to say that the winner proposes the next riddle. Unfortunately it is impossible to edit the text above.

Questions anyone?

Let's model this for then, Danik.

Mystery guest, did you write any novels?

(Do they have to be yes/no questions, by the way?).

Mark Twain?

Of course it's Mark Twain! :) Okay, Ennison, your turn. (See how easy that was, Danik?).

And he's gone. People don't even read the thread. :)

Okay, under the circumstances, in the interests of furthering Danik's game, and because I already knew the previous answer was Mark Twain ("mark twain " is a measurement on a sounding plumb), I will usurp Ennison's position as Riddler. (I'll pay him back later if he wants).

Well loved taxman of days gone past;
Play with fire and you'll get these fast.

That's the hint. Remember you don't have to know right away. You're just supposed to ask questions. For now, let's say they have to be yes/no questions.
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Originally Posted by Pompey Bum

Let's model this for then, Danik.

Mystery guest, did you write any novels?

(Do they have to be yes/no questions, by the way?).

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Sorry, I was away, people.

Any kind of more general questions can be asked, unless we make our own rules, which is also possible.

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Originally Posted by Pompey Bum

Of course it's Mark Twain! :) Okay, Ennison, your turn. (See how easy that was, Danik?).

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Congrats, Ennison!This first riddle was meant to be easy!

Thanks for substituting me, PB and for furthering the game. But shouldn´t we have waited a bit more for ennison? Things go slowly on LitNet these days.

Anyway, your riddle is next.

Let's keep it to yes/no questions. Open-ended ones make it too easy. What books have you written? Animal Farm, 1984. See what I mean?

OK, so it´s a rule.

Good, now ask me a question. :)

No idea yet. Is the author from US?

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Originally Posted by Pompey Bum

And he's gone. People don't even read the thread. :)

Okay, under the circumstances, in the interests of furthering Danik's game, and because I already knew the previous answer was Mark Twain ("mark twain " is a measurement on a sounding plumb), I will usurp Ennison's position as Riddler. (I'll pay him back later if he wants).

Well loved taxman of days gone past;
Play with fire and you'll get these fast.

That's the hint. Remember you don't have to know right away. You're just supposed to ask questions. For now, let's say they have to be yes/no questions.
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My question disapeared so here is it again: Is the author from US?

Apparently no is too short an answer, so I will simply respond in the negative.

Lol. Any relation to biblical times?

Negative.

Mathew is still my only guess. Well, I´ll have now to be off for a while now. Hopefully some else chimes in. If not, don´t worry PB. Some of this riddles go on for days.

No, as I said, this is not a Biblical author (although you are right that Matthew is supposed to have been a tax collector).

Okay, come on the rest of you. This one is easy. But remember you don't need to know the answer. Just ask a (yes/no) question.

There is this novel The Taxman Cometh, but the author is American.

So, is the author from an English speaking country?

Yes, they speak a sort of English there. :)

Still no idea.Is this a poet?

Good question! Yes.

I'm still in the dark but maybe one of our poet hunters can help.

Is it Robert Burns ?

Of course it's Burns. What do you think you get if you play with fire, hickies? :)

Good job, tailor. Your turn!

Congrats, tailor! I would never have guessed it, being not familar with his poetry!

Now hoping for your riddle.

Yo tailor! You're up, man!

Thanks !

ok... give me a bit...

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

This druggist was no zero
convicted member of the choir

adroit at sketching on canvas and page

in a banana republic wrote
of what the walrus said

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

A sophisticated and graceful innovation of LitNet, riddles in verses or with verses.
" The time has come,' the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings."

But he is not Lewis Carroll, is he?

So what's the answer to Danik's question, tailor? :)

HOT !!!... but, nay, that would have been too easy...
a riddle within the riddle; a key
within the verse you found once turned
will lead you to your literary her-o !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Well, let´s sum up:
Said hero is also a painter
The country a sub-developed one
Overseas America or Africa (from an European perspective).

I pass.

Alas, too soon a pass
(for at worst)
perhaps the perp was abroad
from hearth and home
when penned the tome
within your verse

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Well, now I have to be away
But maybe PB or others,
Can make the day!

I´ll be back later.

John Lennon?