| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Henry James once thought that this "Jungle Book" author "contained the seeds of an English Balzac" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: This horror master didn't sugarcoat it: "(J.K.) Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn" (Stephen) King |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald said this author's "inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy" Hemingway |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night" Mark Twain |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $400: "When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'" (Joseph) Heller |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $800: "Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $1600: "I choose to be a... New Hampshire farmer with an income in cash of say a thousand (from...a publisher in New York City)" Robert Frost |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $2000: Not the modest type, in 1882 he told a U.S. Customs official, "I have nothing to declare except my genius" Oscar Wilde |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $5,000 (Daily Double): "Somewhere in Germany is a stream called the Vonne, that is the source of my curious name" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Charles Dickens wrote that a visit by this "Fairy Tales" scribe had been "five weeks which seemed to the family ages" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: After reading this book, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" Leaves of Grass |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: When reviewing "Dawn" in the New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: In 1974, a decade after her suicide, James Dickey called her "the Judy Garland of American poetry" Sylvia Plath |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Conan Doyle wrote, "Where was the detective story until" this author "breathed the breath of life into it?" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: In a sonnet Wordsworth told this "Paradise Lost" poet "Thou should'st be living at this hour" (John) Milton |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: In 1922 Virginia Woolf wrote of his "Ulysses", "Never have I read such tosh" (James) Joyce |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: Herman Melville wrote that this "is a sweet flower; may it flourish in every hedge" the Hawthorne |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1600: E.M. Forster said "Most of human life has to disappear" from the work of this "Portrait of a Lady" author (Henry) James |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: This author was also a friend of Shakespeare but called his pal Donne "the first poet in the world in some things" Ben Jonson |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: His "A Moveable Feast" calls Fitzgerald's talent as natural as the pattern of the dust on a butterfly's wings Hemingway |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them" Mark Twain |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: T.S. Eliot wrote that this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author was "unhampered by any ideas" (Thomas) Hardy |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing "An Ideal Husband", G.B. Shaw said this fellow Irishman "has the property of making his critics dull" Oscar Wilde |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: Byron on this poet: "Strange, the mind, that very fiery particle / Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article" Keats |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $400: Nicole Kidman (in a prosthetic nose) portrayed "The Hours" of this author Virginia Woolf |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $800: Meryl Streep played this author of "Shadows on the Grass" in 1985's "Out of Africa" Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $1200: Meryl Streep played this author of "The Orchid Thief" in 2002's "Adaptation" Susan Orlean |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $1600: "Cross Creek" is a biography of this author of "The Yearling" Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $2000: 1995's "Carrington" also portrays the life & loves of this Bloomsbury Group member who wrote "Eminent Victorians" Lytton Strachey |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $200: Danny Kaye sang "Inchworm" & "Thumbelina" in a delightful musical about this children's author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $400: In the movie "In Love & War", Chris O'Donnell played this American author wounded in Italy during WWI Hemingway |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $600: His relationship with his wife & with Anais Nin was the basis for the movie "Henry & June" Henry Miller |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $800: Bette Midler got all "dolled up" to play this '60s bestselling author in "Isn't She Great" Jacqueline Susann |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $1000: In "Julia", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover Dashiell Hammett |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $100: He's heard here "Ranting Again"
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, except, of course, for the Doc Martens & the purple hair; of course, that's my opinion, I could be wrong." Dennis Miller |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $200: This sitcom star reads his own "Dirty Jokes and Beer", subjects he might have learned about in Cleveland Drew Carey |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $300: "Comical" candidate heard here
"I've decided to take a humorous look at my campaign for president of the United States & my subsequent 144 days in office..." Al Franken |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: He tells you all about Fern, Wilbur & a certain spider when he reads his own "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Jonathan Swift called this Crusoe creator "So...dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enduring him" Daniel Defoe |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: When she died, Edward Fitzgerald sniped, "No more Aurora Leighs, Thank God!", not counting the ways to love her Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $600: Amy Lowell wrote that this "Prufrock" poet "lives like a snail in his shell, pen protruding" T.S. Eliot |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: D.H. Lawrence said this writer of "The Bells" "sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1000: Ironically, it was Gertrude Stein who observed of this Irishman, "People like him because he is incomprehensible" James Joyce |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Ogden Nash rhymed, "I'm fond of women, also wine, but not the song of" this Toklas pal Gertrude Stein |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: In 1922 this novelist said of Ezra Pound, "He's teaching me to write, and I'm teaching him to box" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $600: Longfellow said this "Pride And Prejudice" author's writings "Are a capital picture of real life" Jane Austen |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: To Robert Greene, Shakespeare was "An upstart" one of these black birds, "beautified with our feathers" Crow |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1000: Yeats described this "Arms And The Man" playwright as "An athiest who trembles in the haunted corridor" George Bernard Shaw |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Saul Bellow said this "Jazz Age" author "couldn't distinguish between innocence and social climbing" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Ambrose Bierce described this "Earnest" playwright as "That sovereign of insufferables" Oscar Wilde |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $600: This poet said of Ezra Pound, "mr. pound is humane, but not human" E.E. Cummings |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1931 issue of The New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1000: Sean O'Casey sniped that this author of "Jeeves" was "English literature's performing flea" P.G. Wodehouse |
