Brain Teaser: Unscramble the Best-Selling Authors
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Brain Teaser: Best-Selling Authors

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In this brain teaser, we mix the two pastimes to give you the best of both worlds: Using a few letters from the authors’ first and last names as clues, you’ll have to come up with the full names of six famous authors.

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Each item contains six letters from the names of best-selling authors. The first three letters are part of the first name and the second three letters are part of the last name, in order. Can you figure out who they are?  Answers are below the brain teaser.
  1. OHN   RIS
  2. EPH   KIN
  3. NOR   BER
  4. NNE   RIC
  5. MES   PAT
  6. ANI   STE
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Think you got them all? Keep scrolling for the answer key.
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Answers: 1. John Grisham 2. Stephen King 3. Nora Roberts 4. Anne Rice 5. James Patterson 6. Danielle Steel

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