Literary scavenger hunt, questions and answers

I promised answers, and so, without further ado: 

Week 1: What was the name of the restaurant housed in St. Paul's storied Hungry Mind bookstore?
Table of Contents

Week 2: Name the author who has been known to write longhand drafts of a popular mystery series at the St. Clair Broiler in St. Paul.
William Kent Krueger

Week 3: In 1898, a 13-year-old boy named Harry ran away from his Minnesota home to serve as a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. He didn't make it out of Sauk Centre that day, but later, as the first American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, he traveled widely. What was his name?
Sinclair Lewis

Week 4: Which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet wrote a poem that references the Walker Art Center, the Guthrie Theater, and the former Minneapolis Artificial Limb Exchange, and what is the name of the poem?
James Wright, The Minneapolis Poem

Week 5: Which rock band, whose lead singer grew up in Minnesota, has songs populated with literary figures from William Butler Yeats to Nelson Algren to Minnesota's own John Berryman?
The Hold Steady

Week 6: Which Minnesota poet ran for president five times and once said, "If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency?"
Eugene McCarthy

Week 7: Name the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with deep Minnesota ties, described by this rhyme:
      Pianos, trains, and a guy named Joe,
      All brought to a stage of lust and woe;
      They seized on this life, and it took a toll,
      But learning and laughter warmed the soul.
August Wilson

Week 8: Most of Alison McGhee's Julia Gillian stories take place in which Twin Cities neighborhood?
Uptown

Week 9: This Twin Cities novelist, poet, and professor is known for teaching a course on the "Poetry of Rap." Nationally, his talents are more notably recognized for his work alongside Steven Spielberg for the movie Amistad.
Alexs Pate

Week 10: In a beloved series of books, which author chronicled growing up in "Deep Valley" (Mankato, Minnesota) from the age of five to the time she was married in Minneapolis?
Maud Hart Lovelace (the Betsy-Tacy books)

Week 11: Name at least two great Minnesota authors and their famous works from the following initials: TGG by FSF; MS by SL; GITE by OER; LM by LE; GAC by TO.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Main Street by Sinclair Lewis; Giants in the Earth by Ole Rolvaag; Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich; Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

Now go forth and READ!

Amy Rea

Flyover Land , by Amy Rea, is about the best of Minnesota, and why you shouldn't just fly over.