| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: The first of his 4, count 'em, 4 Pulitzers, was for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes & Grace Notes" Robert Frost |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: The Man Group sponsored this prestigious British literary prize from 2002 to 2019 the Booker Prize |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $600: Octavia Butler got the inaugural Infinity Award by the Science Fiction & Writers Association at these star-studded awards the Nebula Awards |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: This 18th century publisher who helped usher Mother Goose into the world is the namesake of a lauded medal Newbery |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1000: The Hugo Award isn't named after Victor Hugo, but this Hugo who founded the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories Hugo Gernsback |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Like the protagonist in the early part of Dumas' novel, the judges of the newly created Prix Monte-Cristo are these prisoners |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: No twist necessary in the short stories that since 1919 win the prize named for this short story author O. Henry |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: 2019 Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke is perhaps best known for the novel this player's "Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" the goalie |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: In 2019 the name of this prestigious prize became a little shorter when the Man Group stopped sponsoring it a Booker |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: The 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction went to Naomi Alderman for this sci-fi novel where women get shocking abilities The Power |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Not surprisingly, Selma Lagerlof of this country was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Sweden |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: In 1938 "Animals of the Bible" by Dorothy P. Lathrop became the first picture book to win this medal the Caldecott |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: Winners of Britain's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction include Lionel Shriver for her novel "We Need to Talk About" him Kevin |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: In 1881 a literary prize named for this "Eugene Onegin" author was established to honor Russian writers Pushkin |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: Awarded by Yale, this poetry prize was established by an admirer of Carl Jung, who named it for Jung's home in Switzerland the Bollingen |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: The Spur & the Lariat awards are given by the WWA, or these Writers of America Westerns |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: Medals from the American Library Assn. include the Caldecott, Newbery & one named for this "Little House" author Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: The first novel to win the Nebula Award was this one set on Arrakis Dune |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: Awarded by Yale, the Bollingen Prize is given for achievement in this literary form poetry |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $5,600 (Daily Double): Arthur Schlesinger Jr. won 2 National Book Awards for nonfiction for books about each of these 2 brothers John F. Kennedy and R. F. Kennedy |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe the Edgars |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: "Number the Stars" & "The Tale of Despereaux" are among the books to proudly display this medal on their covers the Newbery Medal |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: In 2001 this author of "Goodbye, Columbus" said hello to $10,000 & the first Franz Kafka Prize Philip Roth |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): An award at Yale for the most outstanding nonfiction book on slavery &/or abolition is named for this man Frederick Douglass |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: First awarded in 1969, it's Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the Man Booker Prize |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: This award for science fiction or fantasy is named for Mr. Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine the Hugo |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: This French writer was just 44 when he got the Nobel Prize for Literature for works like "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Albert) Camus |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $600: A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this "Pippi Longstocking" author Astrid Lindgren |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: The Man Group administers this prize now open to any novel written in English, not just by Brits Booker Prize |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Though dead almost 20 years, she won a 1982 Pulitzer for her "Collected Poems" (Sylvia) Plath |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre Western |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: Brian Selznick won a 2008 Caldecott Medal for Illustration for his book "The Invention of" this French boy Hugo Cabret |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: Vincent Bugliosi won a 1975 Edgar Award for this book that was subtitled "The True Story of the Manson Murders" Helter Skelter |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: A British sci-fi award named for this "Childhood's End" author consists of an engraved bookend Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: He won a Bram Stoker award for horror for "Lisey's Story" & also has a lifetime achievement award Stephen King |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: For Civil War works, winners of an award from Gettysburg College receive $50,000 & a bust of him Lincoln |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: In 1901, French poet Sully Prudhomme became the first recipient of this the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | LITERARY AWARDS $1000: Winners of this award include Scott O'Dell for "Island of the Blue Dolphins" & Lois Lowry for "Number the Stars" the Newbery |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | LITERARY AWARDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Poetry Book Society of the U.K. & the Truman State University Press of Missouri both give an award named for him Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: He won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children"; his "Satanic Verses" was nominated but didn't win Salman Rushdie |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Paul Mellon named the Bollingen Prize for a town where this Swiss psychoanalyst lived Carl Jung |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | LITERARY AWARDS $600: He "jockeyed" to win the 1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery with "Come to Grief" Dick Francis |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: Following this Russian's name on the Nobel Prize for Literature list is "declined the prize" & "1958" Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | LITERARY AWARDS $1000: This Russian literary prize was established in 1881 & named for the author of "Eugene Onegin" Aleksandr Pushkin |
