Car Games

Yes he did.

 

Vladimir Nabokov The annotated Lolita

 

If I die in a combat zone; box me up and ship me home by Tim O'Brien

 

Edgar Allan Poe Nantucket, 1838 (novel)

 

Amanda Quick (pen name of Jayne Ann Krentz) - Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

 

Ayn Rand Atlas shrugged. NY: The New American Library, 1957

 

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

 

John Updike The Witches Of Eastwick, 1984

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.Welcome to the monkey house. NY: Dell, 1970.

 

Tom Wolfe The bonfire of the vanities. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987

 

Xenophon (431- c. 360 BC)

Biographical note

Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 BCE. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 BCE. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times.
Works

Historical and Biographical works

• Anabasis [The Persian Expedition]
• Cyropaedia [The Education of Cyrus]
• Hellenica
• Agesilaus

(An author of note, and the only X to come to mind.)

 

Richard Yates Revolutionary Road

 

Emile Zola

 

Guns?

Automag in .44

 

Bersa .380

 

Colt Peacemaker