Books and their Authors Important General Knowledge

Books and their Authors 

Important from Indian GK prospective

Who published the " Red Data Book" containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Who is the author of " Tarikh-i-Alai" containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
- Amir Khusrau

Who wrote the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"?
- John Keats

Who is the author of book "Speed Post"?
- Shobha De

Who wrote the book "Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother"?
- Saeed Mirza

Who is the author of the book "Unto the Last" which influenced Gandhi ji?
- John Ruskin

Who wrote the immortal song "Vande Mataram"?
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

Whose autobiography is "India Wins Freedom"?
- Abul Kalam Azad

Who is the author of the book "The Exile"?
- Navtej Saran

Who wrote the book "The Namesake"?
- Jhumpa Lahiri

Who is the author of novel "The White Tiger"?
- Aravind Adiga

Who said   "Child is the father of Man"?
- William Wordsworth

Who is the author of the  book "My Experiments with Truth"?
- Mahatma Gandhi

What is the original name of Mahabharata?
- Jai Samhita

Who is the author of the  book " We Indians"?
- Khushwant Singh

A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
- Jane Austen

Who said, "God helps those who helps themselves"?
- Algernon Sidney

Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
- Jaya Dev

Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
- Mahatma Gandhi

Who is called Father of English Poetry?
- Chaucer

'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Who wrote   the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
- Jonathan Swift

Who wrote ' One Day Wonders'?
- Sunil Gavaskar

'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
- Nayantara Sahgal

Who wrote the first history book?
- Herodotus

Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
- Rabindranath Tagore

Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
- Jules Verne

Who said " I have nothing to offer except blood, sweat and tears"?
- Churchill

Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
- Das Kapital

Who wrote Panchatantra?
- Vishnu Sharma

Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
- William Shakespeare