Authors (card game) explained

The Game of Authors
Other Names:	Authors
Designer:	Anne W. Abbott ^[1]
Publisher:	G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith Parker Brothers
Players:	2–6
Playing Time:	5'–15'
Ages:	7+
Related:	Go Fish Quartets

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 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

Notes and References

1. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11670/game-authors "The Game of Authors (1861)"
2. http://www.djmcadam.com/authors-card-game.html McAdam, D. J.. Authors Card Game. 2001-2004.
3. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11670/game-authors The Game of Authors (1861)