Quiz: Which book came first?

By Carolyn Kellogg

Feb. 25, 2014 3 PM PT

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? If there’s no good answer to that riddle, we do have clear answers when it comes to books. Books have definite publication dates; one classic definitely came after another. But do you know which is which? Take our quiz.

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

Quiz: Which book came first?

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