20 Questions

O-O that's impressive. Bigger than several breadboxes, I'd say.

Next game:

PERSON

(Hint: related to the previous game)

1. yes

(oh good, Lover and I aren't the only ones on just now)

2. yes--female

3. Alive?

5. fiction writer or poet?

5. yes--fiction (two forms, but one of them is not poetry)

6, yes--Great Britain

7. No, not Emily Bronte.

(hint: there are a handful of more general questions one might ask to narrow the field down)

(waves) Another Heathcliff crush over here!

8. She wrote for adults.

9. yes, she wrote exclusively in 20th century

10. That's what she's best known for now (mysteries).

11. No, not Christie (but right era)

You did get a far way into the guessing process!

12..Patricia Wentworth...

14.  Patricia Cromwell?

Brief recap before I crawl off to bed:

Author

Female

Not alive.

Born in Great Britain.

Wrote fiction (more than one form, though known for novels)

...for adults....

...crime/mystery genre

....in first half of twentieth century.

But not Christie, Sayers, Wentworth.

And next question up is #15.