Book of Answers: Tom Brown’s School Days

“Who wrote Tom Brown’s School Days (1857)? Thomas Hughes, English jurist. The book for boys tells of  young Tom Brown’s adventures at Rugby. Hughes also wrote a sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).”

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.