And NBCC/Paris Review “Name That Author” Contest Winner # 3 Is…
by NBCC | Nov-13-2008
Tommy Saboda of Plymouth, Minnesota clocked in at 9:40 am EST on Wednesday, November 12, first into the in-box with the correct answer to the third installment: Joan Didion.
Some of the other quick responders guessed Harold Pinter, Norman Mailer, Sam Shepard, Philip Gourevich, Salman Rushdie, Truman Capote.
Runners-up who sent the correct answer, Joan Didion: Jaime Guerrero in Monterrey, Mexico, who came in second at 9:54 am EST; Elizabeth McCullough of Charlottesville, Va, at 10:12 am EST; Andy Shelden, also of Charlottesville, at 10:27 am EST: David Abrams of Forest, VA, at 10:33 am EST; Joseph Dinan at 10:54 am EST; Eric Smith at 11:43 am EST;Dawn Rennert of Concord, MA, at 11:51 am EST. And shortly after noon, at 12:03, Tao Lin of Brooklyn; Dennis Loney at 12:19, and Noreen Tomassi, who directs the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction in NYC, at 12:432.
Congrats to all for correct answers, and to Tommy Saboda for being first.
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