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Happy birthday Charles Dickens! Take our Charles Dickens quiz.

By Carolyn Kellogg

Charles Dickens was born 202 years ago today in England. Raised mostly in London in circumstances that were alternately comfortable and difficult, Dickens rose to be one of the most-read living writers on both sides of the Atlantic in an age when crossing the Atlantic took some doing. His books are now classics. How well do you know Dickens and his works? Take our quiz.

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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