travel accessory | James Baldwin | travel companion

File this under "Things We Wish We Had Taken With Us on Our Recent Trip" ...

Need a travel companion to help you pass the time and stimulate the gray matter? Pick up Notable Novelists of the 20th Century before you take off.

Notable Novelists is a game for book lovers, with rules similar to the card game Go Fish -- except you get to test your knowledge of literary giants. You get to compete and have fun, and along the way you learn new tidbits about some of the most gifted writers of the 20th century.

Some of the authors you'll meet as you play:

William Faulkner * F. Scott Fitzgerald * James Baldwin * Flannery O'Connor * James Joyce * Virginia Woolf * Ernest Hemingway * Vladimir Nabokov * Kurt Vonnegut * Willa Cather * Edith Wharton * D.H. Lawrence * Richard Wright * John Cheever * Saul Bellow

For $10.95, it's an affordable (and compact) travel accessory. And with school graduations and Father's Day coming up, it's a superb gift idea.