Which of the following authors is wrongly matched with their books?

The correct answer is Option (4) → Edmund Wilson - Paradise Lost

The question asks for the pair that is wrongly matched.

Option (1) Maxim Gorky - Mother — Correctly matched (Incorrect). The Russian writer Maxim Gorky wrote Mother (1906), a novel about factory workers turning to revolution.

Option (2) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Correctly matched (Incorrect). The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez wrote this short novel in 1981, about a murder that the whole town knew was coming.

Option (3) Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay - Pather Panchali — Correctly matched (Incorrect). The Bengali novel Pather Panchali (1929) is by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay; Satyajit Ray filmed it in 1955.

Option (4) Edmund Wilson - Paradise Lost — Wrongly matched (Correct). Paradise Lost (1667), the epic poem on the fall of Adam and Eve, is by John Milton. Edmund Wilson was an American critic, known for Axel’s Castle and To the Finland Station.