Thursday, July 12th, 2007 11:14 am
OK, picking up from [livejournal.com profile] coyotegestalt(and Ellen Datlow), here's another round of everyone's favorite game.
Yes, I'm lazy, and I'm going to copy this from [livejournal.com profile] coyotegestalt.

A game of Botticelli.

The complete rules are here, but the basic idea: I'm thinking of someone whose name begins with a particular letter, and who is somehow associated with literature or the written word (whether as a creator thereof, or a character, or any number of other possibilities). Someone will take a guess as to my identity in the form of a question, such as "Did you write a book about a scholar who makes a deal with a devil?" To this I might reply "Yes, I am Johann Wolfgang von Goethe," or "No, I am not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe." If you guessed correctly, you win; if you guessed wrong, but I knew who you were thinking of, it's someone else's turn. The third possibility would be that I reply something like "No, and I'm not sure who did," at which point you could ask a more general question to narrow down the possible candidates, such as "Are you from Europe?", at which point I would give an answer and it becomes someone else's turn.
Please, be sure to wait until the last person's turn finishes before starting yours. It gets confusing otherwise. If these instructions seem unclear, read Kat's much longer and coherent explanation above, or see recent games here or here.

So, my name begins with "O." I am not O Henry, George Orwell, Ozymandias, or Ben Okri, nor am I Marc Okrand or Arthur O'Shaughnessy. I am not Patrick O'Brian or Robert C. O'Brien.
I am not fictional, and I have an apostrophe in my name. I am male. I was born after 1900, outside the U.S.

Bravo! [livejournal.com profile] chickenfeet2003 wins it with a correct guess of Flann O'Brien - author of The Third Policeman, made recently famous with a mention on Lost.
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 06:34 pm (UTC)

Do people remember you for a classic Christmas story?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 06:52 pm (UTC)
Were you nearly killed during the Spanish Civil War?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 07:27 pm (UTC)
Are you an ancient king held up as an example of the folly of hubris?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 08:08 pm (UTC)
Did you captain the Irish rugby team?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 10:30 pm (UTC)
Are you a Nigerian Booker Prize winner?
Friday, July 13th, 2007 03:51 pm (UTC)
Are you a linguist famous for work on fictional alien languages?
Friday, July 13th, 2007 04:52 pm (UTC)
Was your most famous work was set to music by Elgar?
Friday, July 13th, 2007 05:23 pm (UTC)
Was one of your better known works a thinly disguised version of Cochrane's "Memoirs of a Fighting Captain"?
Friday, July 13th, 2007 05:49 pm (UTC)

Is the movie version of one of your books a poor, pale shadow of your award-winning book?