Authors (card game)

Authors or, The Game of Authors is an educational game for three to five players. First published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861, The Game of Authors was in 1897 published by Parker Brothers, also located in Salem, Massachusetts at that time.^[2]

The Game of Authors

Cover of a 1890 edition
Other names	Authors
Designers	Anne W. Abbott [1]
Publishers	G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith Parker Brothers
Publication	1861; 164 years ago (1861)
Genres	Educational
Players	2–6 [1]
Playing time	5'–15'
Age range	7+
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Go Fish Quartets

The Game of Authors is one of the earliest versions of the family of Go Fish games, in which players call on each other to give up a named card.^[3] The play is based on a specialized deck of playing cards.

Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are:

• Louisa May Alcott
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Charles Dickens
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Washington Irving
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Sir Walter Scott
• William Shakespeare
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Mark Twain