Name the author of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", "Far from the Madding Crowd" , "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and the "Return of the Native".
Q1. Name the author of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", "Far from the Madding Crowd" , "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and the "Return of the Native".
Answer: Thomas Hardy
Explanation: Thomas Hardy, the Victorian novelist and poet, authored all four of these works, which are set in his fictional Wessex region of England.