| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Guy Montag reads aloud from a book to his wife's shocked friends Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Canadian environmentalist Farley Mowat is best known for bringing sympathy to a predator in "Never Cry" this Wolf |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1991 novel by Canadian Douglas Coupland gave a name to a whole cohort born around the same time Generation X |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1947 play "All My Sons" is about a businessman whose substandard airplane parts cost young men their lives (Arthur) Miller |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Laura Esquivel bestseller refers to a sweet recipe but also a state of passion or anger Like Water for Chocolate |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale Rip Van Winkle |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska My Antonia |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character "fell asleep on the mountain...and every thing's changed--and I'm changed" Rip Van Winkle |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: George & Nick are professors in the college town of New Carthage in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her alter ego Jo March gets $100 for a story she has written (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending "Gift of the Magi" |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: E.L. Doctorow's novel "The March" uses this general's 1864 trek through Georgia as its backdrop General Sherman |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: In a 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, Civil War vet John Carter is magically transported here Mars |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): In Oz she's the good witch who helps Dorothy get back to Kansas Glinda |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $400: His "Green Hills of Africa" is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s Hemingway |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $800: "The Times They Are A-Changin"', from his 1964 album of the same name, became an instant anthem Bob Dylan |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2000: The 2nd & 3rd books in Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first the Snopes family |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part 3 of this novel by Ray Bradbury is called "Burning Bright" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The narrator & protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye" also appeared in other stories by J.D. Salinger Holden Caulfield |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Kidnapped & sold into slavery, Solomon Northup told of his experiences in this memoir that became a movie 12 Years a Slave |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: Originally published anonymously, his essay on "Nature" helped launch Transcendentalism Emerson |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 this author created the Kinte foundation Alex Haley |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Pequod was the whalers' doomed ship in this classic Moby-Dick |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: With "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72", he went gonzo over the presidential election Hunter Thompson |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this 1997 play it's shampoo, set & socialize for a group of women passing time in a Louisiana beauty salon Steel Magnolias |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: He's the giant of American lit seen here near the end of his life Robert Frost |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "My Bondage and My Freedom" from 1855 is his second autobiography Frederick Douglass |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Holden Caulfield has an older brother named D.B. & a little sister named Phoebe The Catcher in the Rye |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Blanche) DuBois |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "The Luck of" this noisy-sounding "Camp" is a not-so-cheery story by Bret Harte Roaring |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Roots |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" in this work Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1852 novel says, "It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This novel ends, "Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll save for noon. For noon... when we reach the city" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1906 novel was meant to be a companion piece to "The Call of the Wild" White Fang |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In a short story by this man, Percy says his father has "a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A poem of his says grass is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Walt) Whitman |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death "The Lottery" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 1882 story by Frank Stockton leaves its title question unanswered "The Lady, or the Tiger?" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The plot of Dubose Heyward's "Porgy" is Porgy meets her, Porgy gets her, Porgy loses her Bess |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt Daniel Webster |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific" Ishmael |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: His 1942 story "The Bear" relates the story of Ike McCaslin & his companions as they hunt a bear named Old Ben Faulkner |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: Her first publications were accounts of the travels of her & husband Almanzo in the De Smet News in South Dakota Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Langston Hughes called this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "the most cussed & discussed book of its time" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Mark Twain book contains such chapters as "The Ogre's Castle" & "Merlin's Tower" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Mess officer Milo Minderbinder profits by working both sides during World War II in this 1961 novel Catch-22 |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: His 1949 collection of stories "Knight's Gambit" features Gavin Stevens, a county attorney from Yoknapatawpha Faulkner |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Ray Bradbury tale, the title character has tattoos that move & change, each telling a story The Illustrated Man |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "The Deerslayer" was the last written, but first chronologically, of his "Leatherstocking Tales" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this J.D. Salinger novel, the main character asks a cab driver where the Central Park ducks go in the winter The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as "El Campeon" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1988 book "A Different Kind of Christmas" was based on a story outline for the TV film "Roots: The Gift" Alex Haley |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The manuscript for "Billy Budd" was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death Herman Melville |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the acclaimed "Roots", a 7-generation family chronicle (Alex) Haley |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He created the reluctant private eye Ezekiel Rawlins, nicknamed "Easy" Walter Mosley |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club (Richard) Wright |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1953 novel by James Baldwin is based on his own experiences as a teenaged preacher Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII Catch-22 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Old Stony Phiz in "The Great Stone Face" by this author of "Twice-Told Tales" is said to be based on Daniel Webster Hawthorne |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: A 1936 operetta, "The Headless Horseman", was based on this 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child's doctor bill pearl |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life" Look Homeward, Angel |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His 1841-42 South Pacific voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided the basis for his most famous novel (Herman) Melville |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire Grover's Corners |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, "The Murders" here in the Rue Morgue |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled "Hester and the Physician" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants The Color Purple |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Henry Fleming, the hero of "The Red Badge of Courage", reappeared in his short story "Lynx-Hunting" Stephen Crane |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot The Sound and the Fury |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This poet published her novel "The Bell Jar" using the pseudonym Victoria Lucas (Sylvia) Plath |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Song to" this liberator was a famous patriotic poem written by Ecuador's Jose Joaquin Olmedo in 1825 Bolivar |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic gauchos |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Alex Haley described this 1976 blockbuster as "faction", a combination of fact & fiction Roots |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This poet & author called the first volume of her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His autobiography "Black Boy" was originally the first section of a longer work called "American Hunger" Richard Wright |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: While serving time in prison, he wrote "Soul on Ice", a series of essays on prejudice & racism Eldridge Cleaver |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: It shouldn't take "100 Years" to figure out this Colombian wrote "News of a Kidnapping" Gabriel García Márquez |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Her 2003 memoir was titled "My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile" Isabel Allende |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Born Neftali Reyes, this Nobel-winning Chilean poet penned "Elementary Odes" in 1954 Pablo Neruda |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Shaw was "GBS"; this Argentine writer of "Ficciones" & "Labyrinths" could've gone by "JLB" Jorge Luis Borges |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: The first novel by "Kiss of the Spider Woman" author Manuel Puig was "Betrayed By" this screen siren Rita Hayworth |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel In Cold Blood |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A battle to keep a girl from the clutches of Satan takes place in this William Peter Blatty novel that turned heads in '71 The Exorcist |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this Tom Robbins novel, Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs & hitchhikes across America Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre) |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This American's stories like "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" are in a style some have called K-Mart Realism Raymond Carver |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Perhaps he was just being modest when he said that his "Invisible Man" was "not an important novel" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Toni Morrison |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right Terry McMillan |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, "The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1894 Mark Twain took this character "Abroad"; 2 years later, he became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This Sinclair Lewis physician begins his practice in his wife's hometown, Wheatsylvania, North Dakota (Martin) Arrowsmith |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Pyncheon Street, previously called Maule's Lane, was the location of this title home The House of the Seven Gables |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In this 1940 novel, deaf-mute John Singer commits suicide when he learns his friend Spiros has died The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Sartoris" published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In England his 1950 science fiction novel "The Martian Chronicles" was titled "The Silver Locusts" Bradbury |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: 1926's top 2 fiction sellers were John Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" & this Anita Loos book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1925 novel contains the line "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy" The Great Gatsby |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 140-pound character in "The Call of the Wild" is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard Buck |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Books by this Nobel Prize winner include "Love", "Beloved" & "Tar Baby" Toni Morrison |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This Willa Cather novel is divided into 5 books, the first being "The Shimerdas" My Antonia |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,400 (Daily Double): Hemingway's epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, "One generation passeth away..." The Sun Also Rises |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time The Natural |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels Louis L'Amour |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This "Age of Innocence" author made her debut in society in 1879 (Edith) Wharton |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck) |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This Sinclair Lewis doctor attempts to halt an epidemic on a West Indian island with his anti-bacterial serum Martin Arrowsmith |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, "I am an invisible man" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath" leaves this Dust Bowl state & heads to California Oklahoma |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In "Following the Equator", this humorist wrote, "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it" Mark Twain |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In one scene in this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with her car The Great Gatsby |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a "History of the Navy of the United States" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel "The Centaur" John Updike |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Like many of his works, Steinbeck's story "Flight" takes place along the coast of this state's Monterey County California |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A year before "Little Women" was published, she became editor of a juvenile magazine called Merry's Museum (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Herman Melville's 18-month voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided a factual basis for this 1851 novel Moby Dick |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" on glimpsing the title home in this Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: About this book Emerson wrote to Whitman, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy" Leaves of Grass |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His scary 1842 story "The Masque of the Red Death" begins, "The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jim Smiley kept this "celebrated" animal of a Mark Twain story in "a little lattice box" the jumping frog of Calaveras county |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This novel's widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: It's the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale Amontillado |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This 19th century female character "raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale's church" Hester Prynne |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1925 Anita Loos book was subtitled "The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 15-year-old E.L. Doctorow high school dropout joins gangster Dutch Schultz' mob Billy Bathgate |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi Huckleberry Finn |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley A Farewell to Arms |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey Cannery Row |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell "Studs" |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck Wolf Larsen |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This character once asked Becky Thatcher, "Do you love rats?" Tom Sawyer |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this Louisa May Alcott novel, Jo March writes a play, "The Witch's Curse" "Little Women" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The whaling ship in this classic novel had 3 harpooners: Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg "Moby Dick" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this 1952 Hemingway story, Santiago goes 84 days without catching a fish, then hooks a gigantic marlin "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this 1939 John Steinbeck novel was taken from a Julia Ward Howe song "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He complained to Tom Sawyer that the widow Douglas "makes me wash" Huck Finn |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Ishmael called him the incarnation of "all the subtle demonisms of life and thought" Moby Dick |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This Jack London title canine is tormented by one of his owners to make him savage enough to win dogfights White Fang |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Brom Bones tells the story of the Headless Horseman in "The Legend of" this place Sleepy Hollow |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This title character in an 1876 novel asks, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Tom Sawyer |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to "chase that white whale on both sides of land" Moby-Dick |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He's the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone Washington Irving |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The one word uttered by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" "Nevermore" |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Sadly, in a James Fenimore Cooper novel Chingachgook was called "The Last of" this group the Mohicans |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Some of his stories of the Yukon were published in the 1910 collection "Lost Face" Jack London |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not" Ernest Hemingway |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Horseman, Pass By", the first novel by this Texan, was made into the movie "Hud" in 1963 Larry McMurtry |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1936 novel by Faulkner tells the story of Thomas Sutpen & bears the name of an Old Testament figure "Absalom, Absalom!" |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Her essays in "Against Interpretation" & "On Photography" call for an emotive response to creative works Susan Sontag |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: Urged to make his peace with God, this "Walden" author replied, "I did not know we had ever quarreled" Henry David Thoreau |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Clement C. Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is more popularly known by this title "Twas' the Night Before Christmas" |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" begins his poem "The Village Blacksmith" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In Fred Gipson's novel, this "colorful" dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s Old Yeller |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: One of his best known works was "The Man Without a Country", but he himself was a man from Boston Edward Everett Hale |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23 "The Red Badge of Courage" |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Reading is out as books go up in smoke in this Ray Bradbury classic "Fahrenheit 451" |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Upton Sinclair expose of the meatpacking industry led to the passage of a Pure Food & Drug Act "The Jungle" |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Daisy Buchanan's cousin, he narrates "The Great Gatsby" Nick Carraway |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel "Beloved" |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He's best known for his "Cien Anos de Soledad", or "100 Years Of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Chilean poet to whom Massimo Troisi delivered mail as "The Postman" Pablo Neruda |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Aphrodite: A Memoir Of The Senses" is a 1998 novel from this "House Of The Spirits" author Isabel Allende |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck's harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel Moby-Dick |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This novel begins: "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony..." The Maltese Falcon |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The line "A dozen Hurons fell by a discharge from Chingachgook and his band" is from this novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Upton Sinclair novel that ends: "Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours!" The Jungle |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Novel in which Willa Cather wrote, "The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family" in the area My Ántonia |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "The Color Purple" |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "You Can't Go Home Again" until you name this author who wrote it Thomas Wolfe |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1991 Robert Pirsig published "Lila", a follow-up to his classic "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In titles of novels by John Updike, it precedes "Run", "is Rich" & "at Rest" Rabbit |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a follow-up to his "Black Boy" Richard Wright |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: To research "Airport", he spent hours in airports absorbing the atmosphere Arthur Hailey |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Hemingway took the title of this novel about journalist Jake Barnes from a passage in Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this 1946 novel, "There wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie" Stark All the King's Men |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Nature", an essay by this transcendentalist, was published anonymously in 1836 Emerson |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "Tom Sawyer" this newcomer to St. Petersburg is described as "a blue-eyed creature with yellow hair" Becky Thatcher |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: J.N. Reynolds' "Mocha Dick", about a white whale, was published 12 years before this man's "Moby Dick" Herman Melville |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: World leader who was the subject of David Halberstam's 1971 book "Ho" Ho Chi Minh |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Thomas Pynchon followed "V" with this novel about the V-2 rocket Gravity's Rainbow |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: If you read her new book "Sex & The Single Girl" at 21 you're 57 now (& no longer a girl) Helen Gurley Brown |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Olive Chancellor was into woman's lib in his 1886 novel "The Bostonians" Henry James |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb East of Eden |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights The Natural |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this 1985 novel, E.L. Doctorow recalled life & the Expo in NYC during the 1930s World's Fair |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: After he becomes wealthy, this Horatio Alger title character uses the name Richard Hunter, Esq. Ragged Dick |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Mark Twain used the tall tale form in his book about "Life on" this river Mississippi River |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He described the setting of "Cannery Row" as "A poem, a stink...a habit, a nostalgia, a dream" John Steinbeck |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The books of his "U.S.A." trilogy contain "newsreels" made up of headlines & catchphrases John Dos Passos |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote the short story "Nightfall", a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old Isaac Asimov |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,...appeared the letter A" The Scarlet Letter |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This vice president is the title character of a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal Aaron Burr |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a 1951 Pulitzer for his "Complete Poems" & one in 1940 for "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" (Carl) Sandburg |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: When featured on "Oprah", her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" returned to the bestseller list in 1996 Toni Morrison |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Francis Phelan an ex-baseball player, is the main character in this author's "Ironweed" William Kennedy |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was "told to" this deeply rooted author Alex Haley |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This legendary fruit tree planter was the subject of a work by Vachel Lindsay Johnny Appleseed |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: Title of Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about men he described as "single-combat warriors" The Right Stuff |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: As the first, it jump-started John Updike's series of novels about Harry Angstrom Rabbit, Run |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: This famous tale of Christmas presents isn't one in a million, but one in O Henry's book "The Four Million" "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: It begins, "'Tom!' No answer. 'Tom!' No answer. 'What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, Tom!'" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He published "Marjorie Morningstar" 16 years before "The Winds of War" Herman Wouk |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He set "The Last Picture Show" & "Texasville" in the fictional town of Thalia Larry McMurtry |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This novel of high society made Edith Wharton the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Age of Innocence |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this Ralph Ellison novel refers to its nameless narrator & protagonist Invisible Man |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Harpooneers in this novel include Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg, a cannibal Moby Dick |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This 1950 Ray Bradbury book collected 26 stories about Earth's colonization of Mars The Martian Chronicles |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1854 Thoreau work is subtitled "Or Life in the Woods" Walden |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", this character kills Dr. Robinson, a murder witnessed by Tom Injun Joe |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Sons", the second novel in her "House of Earth" trilogy, traces the lives of Wang Lung's 3 sons Pearl S. Buck |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In a Longfellow poem, Minnehaha marries this Indian hero Hiawatha |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His story "MS. Found in a Bottle" was the prize-winning entry in an 1833 newspaper contest Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "White Fang", Jack London reversed the theme of this earlier novel Call of the Wild |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1990 his "Stranger in a Strange Land" was reissued with 60,000 words that had been cut from the original Robert Heinlein |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: John Steinbeck first came to prominence with this 1935 novel about a group of Mexican-Americans Tortilla Flat |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His "Red Badge Of Courage" first appeared in shortened form in the Philadelphia press Stephen Crane |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924 Zane Grey |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Characters in this Hemingway novel include Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley & Pedro Romero, a bullfighter The Sun Also Rises |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Some of the names in this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work were taken from tombstones in a Lewiston, Illinois cemetery Spoon River Anthology |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This novel about love, marriage & regret earned Anne Tyler a 1989 Pulitzer Prize Breathing Lessons |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He took the title of his "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from a work by John Donne Ernest Hemingway |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Union soldier Henry Fleming is the hero of this 1895 Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage" |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Amy Tan novel tells the stories of 4 Chinese-born women & their American daughters "The Joy Luck Club" |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is a 1970 autobiography by this African-American poet Maya Angelou |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Rappaccini's Daughter" is one of the short stories featured in his "Mosses From An Old Manse" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Jo's Boys" was her second sequel to "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "George's Mother" is a lesser-known novel by this author of "The Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): Norman Mailer called book one, part seven of this "true life novel" "Death Row" The Executioner's Song |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He dedicated "Look Homeward, Angel" to his married lover Aline Bernstein Thomas Wolfe |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His "Growth" trilogy of novels includes "The Turmoil", "The Magnificent Ambersons" & "The Midlander" (Booth) Tarkington |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this book Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His 1840 novel "The Pathfinder" is subtitled "The Inland Sea" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "Of Mice and Men", he accidentally kills Curley's wife by breaking her neck Lennie (Small) |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His first collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems", was published in 1827 & credited to "A Bostonian" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Hemingway story, a writer dies from a gangrenous leg while on an African safari The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He first wrote about a woman doomed to wear the letter in his 1838 story "Endicott and the Red Cross" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Henry March in his novel "The Deerslayer" is nicknamed Hurry Harry because he's always on the move James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The storytelling characters in his book "Tales of a Wayside Inn" are based on real people (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This "Sophie's Choice" author set his 1st novel, "Lie Down in Darkness", in his native Virginia William Styron |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Book one of this Willa Cather novel is entitled "The Shimerdas" "My Antonia" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: It's the crime for which Hester Prynne is condemned to wear "The Scarlet Letter" Adultery |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Uncas, a young chieftain, is identified as this title character "The Last of the Mohicans" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In a John Steinbeck work, this title object found by Kino the fisherman is as big as a seagull's egg "The Pearl" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1941 Budd Schulberg novel chronicles the rise of Sammy Glick from office boy to film tycoon "What Makes Sammy Run?" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis spent several months researching Midwestern Protestantism for this 1927 novel "Elmer Gantry" |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A chapter from "Life on the Mississippi" was intended for this "Tom Sawyer" sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This "Magnificent" Booth Tarkington novel was the second book in his "Growth" trilogy The Magnificent Ambersons |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1930 this author dramatized her 1946 novel "The Member of the Wedding" Carson McCullers |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The middle name of this Sinclair Lewis title character is Follansbee (George F.) Babbitt |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "The Old Man and the Sea", this Cuban fisherman finally hooks a marlin after almost 3 months Santiago |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Alex Haley work is subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: James A. Michener used this war as a background for "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" & "Sayonara" Korean War |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This recent James Redfield novel tells of an ancient manuscript fround in Peru The Celestine Prophecy |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1939 James Thurber short story about a henpecked husband was first published in The New Yorker The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): John Updike has won 2 Pulitzer Prizes for novels about this title character Rabbit Angstrom |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: She wrote what she called "rubbishy novels" before the success of "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Geo. Washington Cable's 1880 novel "The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life" is set in this city New Orleans |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Theodore Dreiser heroine is 18 when she leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago Sister Carrie |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Sherwood Anderson's 1st title for this 1919 collection of stories was "The Book of the Grotesque" Winesburg, Ohio |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: King David's lament for his third son inspired the title of this author's "Absalom, Absalom!" (William) Faulkner |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His famous story "The Premature Burial" is set "some miles down the banks of" the James River in Virginia Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "A Tree of Night" is a 1949 collection of short stories by this author of "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "The Same Door" is a collection of John Updike stories that appeared originally in this magazine The New Yorker |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Her 1940 novel "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" is a parable on Fascism (Carson) McCullers |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Henry Fleming, hero of a classic 1895 novel, is a grandfather in this author's 1896 story "The Veteran" (Stephen) Crane |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel the father of Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy is an Army chaplain in the Civil War Little Women |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this story a New Englander awakens to find himself at Camelot in 528 A.D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: After years of writing short stories, J.D. Salinger published this first novel The Catcher in the Rye |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His "The Long Valley" contained the short stories "Saint Katy the Virgin" & "The Red Pony" (John) Steinbeck |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This Emerson essay states, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" Self Reliance |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Lillian Hellman was the model for Nora Charles in his novel "The Thin Man" (Dashiell) Hammett |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His 1949 book "Knight's Gambit" is a collection of interrelated detective stories set in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This native of Salem, Mass. published his novel "Fanshawe" anonymously & never admitted that he wrote it Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Nick Adams is the hero of many of the stories in his 1925 collection "In Our Time" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Betty Smith novel tells us, "The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character falls asleep in the Catskills while hunting with his dog, Wolf Rip Van Winkle |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: After the death of St. Clare, Uncle Tom is sold to this drunken planter Simon Legree |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): This Hawthorne heroine has a beautiful, mischievous daughter named Pearl Hester Prynne |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Deerslayer Natty Bumppo received this nickname because of his long deerskin leggings Leatherstocking |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this essay Thoreau asserted, "that government is best which governs not at all" "Civil Disobedience" |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Among the scary stories he published in 1843 were "The Tell-Tale Heart" & "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Israel Potter" is an 1855 novel of the American Revolution by this author of "Moby-Dick" Herman Melville |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The high-living hero & heroine of his 1922 novel "The Beautiful and Damned" resemble him & his wife Zelda F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): He described his 1966 book "In Cold Blood" as a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: American poet who published "Dust of Snow" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1923 Robert Frost |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His 1938 collection "The Long Valley" includes one of his most famous stories, "The Red Pony" (John) Steinbeck |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Edgar Lee Masters' most famous book, it's a series of epitaphs written in free verse Spoon River Anthology |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1st Theodore Dreiser novel shocked the publisher's wife, who kept it from wide distribution Sister Carrie |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1957 he published "The Town", the second novel in his Snopes trilogy Faulkner |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams considered her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" a masterpiece Carson McCullers |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His novel "The Prairie" is set in 1804; Natty Bumppo is in his 80s James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Drums along the Mohawk" tells the story of this war from a farmer's point of view the American Revolution |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Adagio Dancer", a brief biography of Rudolph Valentino, appears in this John Dos Passos trilogy the U.S.A. Trilogy |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse" while living in a Massachusetts home called the Old Manse (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,700 (Daily Double): Bess is the heroine of this 1925 DuBose Heyward novel, but she isn't mentioned in the title Porgy |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He wrote good later novels like "Cass Timberlane", but earlier ones like "Babbitt" are more famous Sinclair Lewis |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The book "Bear, Man, and God" contains "Seven Approaches to" his famous story "The Bear" Faulkner |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This author of "All the King's Men" edited a 1971 book about John Greenleaf Whittier's poetry Robert Penn Warren |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Ice Palace", her last novel, was published in 1958, 10 years before her death Edna Ferber |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Bessie Rice bribes 16-year-old Dude Lester to marry her in this Erskine Caldwell novel Tobacco Road |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Steinbeck novel was based on articles on migrant workers he had written for the San Francisco News The Grapes of Wrath |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Booth Tarkington's story about this "Magnificent" family won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919 the Ambersons |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "The Scarlet Letter", Arthur Dimmesdale is her fellow sinner & fellow sufferer Hester Prynne |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this tale Washington Irving wrote, "There was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Jack London wolf dog's masters include Gray Beaver & Beauty Smith White Fang |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1853 she wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" to defend the accuracy of the earlier book Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this Hemingway novelette, Santiago was once an arm wrestler called "El Campeon" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Background for Dr. Kennicott in his 1920 novel "Main Street" was supplied by his father, a country doctor Sinclair Lewis |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His "The Great Stone Face" appeared in the 1851 collection "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This book by Sherwood Anderson tells 21 tales about the "grotesque" inhabitants of an Ohio town Winesburg, Ohio |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In his "For Whom the Bell Tolls", American Robert Jordan enters the Spanish Civil War on the Loyalist side Hemingway |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In "The Concord Hymn", Emerson wrote, "Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired" this "the shot heard round the world" |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "A Tramp Abroad", this author describes a walking tour through the Alps & the Black Forest Mark Twain |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Melville novelette, a young sailor is hanged for killing a jealous petty officer named Claggart Billy Budd |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,600 (Daily Double): Sequentially, "The Deerslayer" is the first of these tales, but it was the last written The Leatherstocking Tales |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: The setting for this Joseph Heller novel is the imaginary island of Pianosa Catch-22 |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", fireman Guy Montag's job is to do this to burn books |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: She referred to the many American writers in Paris after World War I as the "Lost Generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Sinclair Lewis title character studied medicine at the University of Winnemac Arrowsmith |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): He's the only man to survive the sinking of the Pequod by Moby Dick Ishmael |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This J.D. Salinger novel covers two days in the life of Holden Caufield Catcher in the Rye |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: At the end of "Moby Dick", this ship sinks & Ishmael is the lone survivor Pequod |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In a 1947 novelette, he told of a great pearl, how it was found & how it was lost again John Steinbeck |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part of this poet's autobiography was reprinted in 1955 as "Prairie-Town Boy" Carl Sandburg |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1936 Ernest Hemingway |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Characters in this Mark Twain novel include "The Dauphin", the Widow Douglas & Jim, a runaway slave Huck Finn |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this tale a sleepy Dutch colonist meets the spirits of Henry Hudson's crew playing ninepins Rip Van Winkle |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: While an editor of Graham's Magazine, he wrote "The Masque of the Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Jack London title animal is the offspring of a wolf & an Indian wolfdog White Fang |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1974 James A. Michener novel tells the story of a fictional Colorado town through the years Centennial |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Civil War historian Shelby Foote's favorite Civil War novel is this one by Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for", he wrote in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Hemingway |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Sinclair Lewis title character seduces a female evangelist named Sharon Falconer Elmer Gantry |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The narrator of a Poe story describes this title structure as a "mansion of gloom" the House of Usher |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His books "Daisy Miller" & "The Portrait of a Lady" are both about young American ladies in Europe (Henry) James |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Hemingway novella about an aging fisherman was based on a true story he'd heard from his Cuban boatman The Old Man and the Sea |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Among the pseudonyms this author used were Diedrich Knickerbocker & Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this Poe short story, a watch ticking beneath a floorboard drives a man to confess to murder "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1952 novel by John Steinbeck is based on the biblical story of Cain & Abel East of Eden |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In a story by Bret Harte, John Oakhurst & Mother Shipton are among "The Outcasts of" this mining town Poker Flat |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This novel by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 some of his Nick Adams stories were published for the first time Hemingway |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Sons", about the children of Wang Lung, was a sequel to this Pearl Buck novel The Good Earth |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The title of his 1847 novel "Omoo" is Polynesian for a person who wanders from island to island Melville |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Trying to repeat the success of his earlier anthology, he published "The New Spoon River" in 1924 (Edgar Lee) Masters |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Ernest Hemingway once claimed that "All modern American literature comes from this "Tom Sawyer" sequel" Huckleberry Finn |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He received only $10 for the first publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1985 Larry McMurtry made the bestseller list with this epic novel about the West Lonesome Dove |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Laura Ingalls Wilder was well into her 60s when she began this series of books about her early life Little House on the Prairie |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Set in the Reconstruction era, "Beloved" won this black American author a 1988 Pulitzer Prize Toni Morrison |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling novel "Andersonville" is set during this war the Civil War |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willie Stark in "All the King's Men" is said to have been modeled on this Louisiana governor Huey Long |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1929 novel about the Compson family is often considered WIlliam Faulkner's finest book The Sound and the Fury |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1952 work about baseball player Roy Hobbs was Bernard Malamud's first novel The Natural |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His 1853 short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street" Herman Melville |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: The same year his "The Last of the Mohicans" was published, he was named U.S. Consul at Lyon, France James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Thoreau work is sub-titled "Life in the Woods" "Walden" |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His first novel, "Typee", in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific Herman Melville |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He wrote "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" & "A History of New York" Washington Irving |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work, the former residents of a Midwestern town speak from their graves "Spoon River Anthology" |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a Congregationalist minister in Litchfield, Connecticut Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This first & only novel by Harper Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The conceited architect in this Ayn Rand novel is said to be based on Frank Lloyd Wright The Fountainhead |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This William Shirer book is subtitled "A History of Nazi Germany" The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "I Sing the Body Electric" he said, "These are not the parts & poems of the body only, but of the soul" Walt Whitman |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1851 this Herman Melville classic was first published in England as "The Whale" Moby-Dick |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "White Fang", about a dog who is tamed, was Jack London's follow-up to this novel Call of the Wild |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Huck Finn is first mentioned in this, Mark Twain's memoir of his riverboat days Life on the Mississippi |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In a short novel by John Steinbeck, a fisherman named Kino finds this title object a pearl |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1922 Sinclair Lewis published this novel about an average American businessman Babbitt |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Thomas Nelson Page's novel "Red Rock" depicts the effects of this war on 2 old Southern families the Civil War |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This poet's collection, "Sequel to Drum Taps", contained "O Captain! My Captain!" Whitman |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: First name shared by title characters Brand & Frome Ethan |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Edward Albee dramatized her story "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" in 1963 Carson McCullers |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Like the hero of his novel "An American Tragedy", this author grew up in poverty (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Though it takes place first, "The Deerslayer" was the last published of his "Leatherstocking Tales" Cooper |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This 1939 James Thurber short story tells the fantasies of a mild man who imagines himself a hero The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Max Brand is best known for writing "Destry Rides Again" & a series of novels about this physician Doctor Kildare |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Herman Melville book is subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" Typee |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This N. Hawthorne collection contains the stories "The Gray Champion" & "The Celestial Railroad" Twice-Told Tales |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Raintree County" opens in this Hoosier State in 1892 & then flashes back to pre-Civil War days Indiana |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Mark Twain novel that feature Merlin & Morgan le Fay A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His novel "The Pathfinder" is subtitles "The Inland Sea" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "The Natural", his first novel, was first published in 1952 Bernard Malamud |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): This collection of short stories about life in a small town was S. Anderson's 4th book Winesburg, Ohio |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: “Men in White”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934, is a Sidney Kingsley play about this profession medicine |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote “The Bells” & “Annabel Lee” at his farmhouse in the Bronx Edgar Allan Poe |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1976 this Canadian-born author of “Herzog” won the Nobel literature prize Saul Bellow |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Baltimore writer who coined the term “booboisie” & said Hoover was "a fat Coolidge" H.L. Mencken |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: She published “The Member of the Wedding” as a novel in 1946, then rewrote it as a play in 1950 Carson McCullers |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He was born in Salinas, California, the setting for his "East of Eden" John Steinbeck |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Her 2nd antislavery book was 1856's "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He was writing about his ancestors Miles Standish & Priscilla Mullins in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" Longfellow |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Greed & lust for power release vicious passions in a Southern family in her play "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, & Frederik Pohl are best known for writing in this genre science fiction |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "The House of the Seven Gables" is set in this New England town, about 150 years after the Witch Trials Salem, Massachusetts |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The Mystery of Marie Roget" followed this Poe story, both featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This first "Mike Hammer" novel is Mickey Spillane's top-selling paperback book I, the Jury |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1920 Sinclair Lewis novel told the story of Carol Milford & Dr. Will Kennicott "Main Street" |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Many consider his 1952 book "Invisible Man" the greatest post-war novel about black life in the U.S. Ralph Ellison |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. were among the authors known collectively as this city's Brahmins Boston |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The title of this Erskine Caldwell novel refers to land whose income is supposed to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Hemingway's story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is set on this continent Africa |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This American who moved to Europe wrote about Americans in Europe in "The Ambassadors" (Henry) James |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Her 1927 novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is based on the lives of 2 French clerics (Willa) Cather |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Drums of Jeopardy" author Harold MacGrath came up with "Perils" for this film heroine Pauline |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Adjective describing Lloyd Douglas' "Obsession" or Booth Tarkington's "Ambersons" Magnificent |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: John O'Hara's 1940 collection of short stories about a singing heel that became a hit musical Pal Joey |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Arrowsmith was a doctor, & this Sinclair Lewis title character was a realtor Babbitt |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Willa Cather wrote the novel "O Pioneers!", & he wrote the poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Walt Whitman |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In “Moby Dick” the narrator begins by telling the reader to call him this Ismael |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: C. Auguste Dupin is an amateur detective who appears in 3 of his short stories (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Nick Adams is the protagonist in many of the short stories in this author's “In Our Time” Hemingway |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Edith Wharton's tragic tale of a New England farmer who falls in love with his wife's cousin Mattie Ethan Frome |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Father of Pearl! He's the minister in Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter” (Arthur) Dimmesdale |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This author of the Perry Mason books was a lawyer himself Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Flowering Judas" & "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" are collections of short stories by this author Katherine Anne Porter |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days", JFK's story (Arthur) Schlesinger |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He won the National Book Award in 1956 fro his novel "Ten North Frederick" John O'Hara |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Her horror story "The Lottery", first published in the New Yorker, is now widely anthologized Shirley Jackson |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He went to the Klondike in 1897 & wrote magazine stories later collected in "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Eugene Gant is the name under which he appears in his autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel" Thomas Wolfe |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: She won a Pulitzer Prize for "So Big" but not for "Cimarron" Edna Ferber |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the name Washington Irving used for the area that's now Tarrytown. N.Y. Sleepy Hollow |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: A famous sea route, or Kenneth Roberts' novel of attempts to find an alternative overland route the Northwest Passage |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This clergyman who wrote "The Short History of New-England" in 1694 was the son of Increase Mather Cotton Mather |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "Cadillac Jack" & "Lonesome Dove" after "Terms of Endearment" Larry McMurtry |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name Herman Melville |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel about the adventures of Dean Moriarty & friends as they travel the U.S. On the Road |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: It was called "A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" before it was called this "Song of Myself" |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: "Jo's Boys" was her last novel in the saga of Jo March (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Author of "Space", "Chesapeake" & "Hawaii" Michener |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: "Gone with the Wind" was her only published novel (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the novel "The Enormous Room" & many poems such as "anyone lived in a pretty how town" E. E. Cummings |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: In a Stephen Vincent Benét short story this New Englander saves Jabez Stone from "Mr. Scratch" Daniel Webster |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: Philip Nolan, who died on board the U.S. Corvette Levant, was called this by Edward Everett Hale "The Man Without a Country" |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1981 John Kennedy Toole was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this novel A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: "Other Voices, Other Rooms" was this author's 1st published novel Truman Capote |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: She based Little Lord Fauntleroy's costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Best known for "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight", he published at least a dozen volumes of poems Vachel Lindsay |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Among the books set on this river were "Mike FInk", "Tammy Out of Time" & "Huckleberry Finn" the Mississippi |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The full title of his 1947 book was "Tales of the South Pacific" James Michener |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Truman Capote's nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood" was written in an event that took place in this state Kansas |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: After a stint as a Hollywood screenwriter, Nathanael West wrote this Hollywood novel, his last The Day of the Locust |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Carson McCullers novel about a motherless 12-year-old & her thoughts on her brother's marriage Member of the Wedding |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He lost a N.Y. mayoral race but won the Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song" Norman Mailer |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this 1955 novel, Humbert Humbert marries widow Charlotte Haze just to be near her Nymphet daughter "Lolita" |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Jack London's "Call of the Wild" featured the exploits of this sledge dog & his master, John Thornton Buck |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Name of James Fenimore Cooper character introduced in "The Pioneers"; he appeared in 4 additional books Natty Bumppo |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Frederick Faust wrote "Destry Rides Again" & the "Dr. Kildare" series of books under this pseudonym Max Brand |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1605 Cervantes wrote about Don Quixote, & in 1969 Mario Puzo wrote about this Don Corleone |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Katherine Anne Porter got this title & plot device from a 1494 Sebastian Brant work Ship of Fools |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: American novelist & short story writer who created Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Title hero of Nathanael West's 1933 tale who ends up murdered by one of his correspondents Miss Lonelyhearts |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio Washington Irving |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem about this "Little Orphant" Annie |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His trip to the Arctic on a seal hunting ship provided background for "The Sea Wolf" Jack London |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: For Tom Braden "Eight is Enough", but in Frank Gilbreth's family, kids were "cheaper" this way by the dozen |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A Sinclair Lewis novel about the medical profession, it's a homophone of a heavy metal band Arrowsmith |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The 1985 movie "Smooth Talk" was based on her short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Completes the title of Walter D. Edmonds' 1936 historical novel, "Drums Along the ..." Mohawk |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: William Sydney Porter probably used this pseudonym to conceal the fact that he was in jail O. Henry |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Book in which Jody learns, when he kills his fawn, that "Love's got nothing to do with corn" The Yearling |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered" was 1 of this author's favorite quotes Truman Capote |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): In "The Sun Also Rises" Hemingway quotes this author as saying, "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Ask not which Hemingway book outsold all others; it was this novel whose hero was Robert Jordan For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: If his parents hadn't had 14 children, we couldn't read "The Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "The victor belongs to the spoils," he claimed in "The Beautiful & the Damned" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This author of "The Octopus" was the reader at Doubleday who accepted Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" Frank Norris |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: An ex-football player who enters the ministry is the subject of this Sinclair Lewis novel Elmer Gantry |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: James M. Cain's first novel; think letters & bells for a clue to its title The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: J.P. Marquand, who won a Pulitzer for "The Late George Apley," created this Japanese spy/detective Mr. Moto |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Among his many books for boys are the Ragged Dick & Tattered Tom series Horatio Alger |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Richard Henry Dana's 1840 classic based on a voyage he took around Cape Horn Two Years Before the Mast |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A grandnephew of Nathan Hale, Edward E. Hale wrote the story of Philip Nolan, the man without 1 of these a country |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot The Sound and the Fury |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: It was Tom Sawyer's testimony that got Muff Potter acquitted of this charge murder |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: James F. Cooper character also known as Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, Long Rifle & Deerslayer Natty Bumppo |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Wm. Dean Howell's novel, the title character "rise"s morally while falling financially The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Color of Henry James' "Bowl" or Clifford Odets' "Boy" Golden |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Wild Cargo" was Frank Buck's sequel to this popular book Bring 'Em Back Alive |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was based on this 1905 book by Thomas Dixon The Clansman |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Paul Fatout's biography of this writer was called, "The Devil's Lexicographer" Ambrose Bierce |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He came up with "A Guide to Confident Living" before his "The Power of Positive Thinking" Norman Vincent Peale |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Many consider this, Norman Mailer's 1st published novel, the best war novel to emerge from WWII The Naked and the Dead |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1920, Chas. Nordhoff & James Hall moved to Tahiti where they wrote this novel about a real event Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Giants in the Earth", a story of pioneer life in the Dakotas, was originally written in this language Norwegian |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: He wrote that "persons attempting to find a plot" in "Huck Finn" "will be shot" Mark Twain |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This author's son Jack wrote "Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With & Without Papa." Ernest Hemingway |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: So no one would read it, this Atlanta belle had her novella about interracial lovers destroyed Margaret Mitchell |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Encyclopedia Americana calls him the "1st great dramatist" in American literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: This short novel, Melville's last, wasn't published until 33 years after his death Billy Budd |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22" Joseph Heller |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Little Women" is set during this war the Civil War |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Author of "A Heap o' Livin'", listed in Avenel's companion to American Literature as "Famous Bad Poet" Edgar Guest |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: 1st American writer to achieve internat'l fame, he spent nearly 20 years writing, not sleeping, in Europe Washington Irving |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: 1976 Nobel prize-winner who wrote "Herzog" as an auto-biographical novel Saul Bellow |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In his "Sketches from Switzerland" he told of Arnold von Winkelried, a national hero, not a Mohican James Fenimore Cooper |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: T. Dreiser novel that went undistributed for 12 years since publisher's wife opposed its amoral heroine Sister Carrie |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This poet's epitaph reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world" Robert Frost |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Walden Pond rustic who advised us to "simplify, simplify" Thoreau |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Clarence Day followed "Life With Father" with this look at the distaff side Life With Mother |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Howard Hawks called it a "piece of junk", but got Hemingway to help adapt it for Bogey & Bacall To Have And Have Not |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Called "greatest intellectual in land", this prolific Puritan penned 459 books, none of them "fleecy" Cotton Mather |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Edgar Allan Poe character considered by many to be 1st modern detective C. Auguste Dupin |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Cheek color of Whittier's "Barefoot Boy" tan |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The Crucible", his 1953 play about Salem witchcraft trials drew a parallel to McCarthyism (Arthur) Miller |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His lovesick narrator begins, "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins" Nabokov |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Melville title sailor who personifies innocence Billy Budd |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Sport defined by Hemingway as "Death in the Afternoon" bullfighting |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1843, the Merriams took over the rights to his dictionary Webster |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her "Giant" grew into an epic movie Edna Ferber |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Death Comes for" him Willa Cather's classic the Archbishop |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Novelist & poet who went "Trout Fishing in America" (Richard) Brautigan |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Under a spreading chestnut tree" it stands the village smithy |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: First name of authors Pene du Bois & Saroyan William |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Number of years Richard Henry Dana spent "Before the Mast" Two |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He went "On the Road" to find the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Dusk--of a summer night" is the first paragraph of his "An American Tragedy" Theodore Dreiser |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: Melville's white whale tale Moby-Dick |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Lincoln called it "the book that caused the big war" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: Steinbeck novel dubbed "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Depression" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He gave Hester a scarlet "A" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Great-grand nephew of Francis Scott Key, he was the voice of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald |
