| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Her books include 1936's "Murder in Mesopotamia" & 1923's "Murder on the Links" Agatha Christie |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: In a book by Kate DiCamillo, young Opal goes to the local supermarket & comes home with this dog Winn-Dixie |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "Gathering Blue" is the second book in her "Giver" quartet Lois Lowry |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: Known for her "Magical Thinking", she wrote a short novel called "Democracy" & co-wrote the 1976 film "A Star Is Born" Joan Didion |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: Known for writing about old New York, she had some of her shorter work published in the 1924 collection "Old New York" Edith Wharton |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Swedish author Astrid Lindgren created strong characters like Ronja, the Robber's Daughter, & this redhead with braids (Pippi) Longstocking |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: In addition to creating & starring in "Abbott Elementary", she's published the essay collection "She Memes Well" Quinta Brunson |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This magazine contributor, short-story author & poet once said, "I can't write five words but that I change seven" Dorothy Parker |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: The author of more than 50 books including "The Golden Notebook", she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature (Doris) Lessing |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $8,000 (Daily Double): Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation Japan |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: In 1956, Kay Thompson, on the left, appeared in a TV production about this little girl of hers who lives at the Plaza Hotel Eloise |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Sadly, she died at the age of 30, just a year after her "Wuthering Heights" was published Emily Brontë |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: She set "Little Fires Everywhere" in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio Celeste Ng |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter Maya Angelou |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Chile, the University of Santiago, & Harvard, among others (Isabel) Allende |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: In 1918 Columbia U. student Minna Lewinson became the first woman to win this journalism award the Pulitzer |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: She wrote the screenplay to 7 of the 8 films she directed, including "You've Got Mail" & "Julie & Julia" Nora Ephron |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This Ayn Rand book ends with the line "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark" The Fountainhead |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,500 (Daily Double): An auction of this poet's possessions included her copy of "Joy of Cooking" with "Ted likes this" next to a veal recipe Sylvia Plath |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: For 10 years she wrote for Entertainment Weekly; since she published "Gone Girl", EW covers her Gillian Flynn |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Her book "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding & Other Stories" featured Miss Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot (Agatha) Christie |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: In 1950 she published her first kids' book, "Henry Huggins"; in 2016 she celebrated her 100th birthday (Beverly) Cleary |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Letter from Peking", she wrote of an American woman separated from her Chinese-American husband Pearl S. Buck |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: According to tradition, Plato referred to this female poet from Lesbos as "the tenth Muse" Sappho |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: J.K. Rowling wrote her first novel at a cafe in this Scottish capital Edinburgh |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Professor Bhaer, introduced in this 1868 novel, may have been based on William Rimmer, a teacher Louisa May Alcott knew Little Women |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: She departed from the theme of Chinese-American mothers & daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish From Drowning" Amy Tan |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: This author of "Orlando" based her 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" on the life & death of her brother Thoby (Virginia) Woolf |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Troubled by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, she wrote what became an immediate bestseller Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: This author created the Vampire Lestat, the "bad boy of the bloodsucking world" Anne Rice |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Recently published, "Suite Francaise" is by Irene Nemirovsky, who died in this concentration camp in 1942 Auschwitz |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: It was curtains for Hercule Poirot in her 1975 mystery "Curtain" Agatha Christie |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking" Joan Didion |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: She dedicated "Jane Eyre" to William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Brontë |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Memnoch The Devil" is the fifth book in this author's "Vampire Chronicles" Anne Rice |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: In "Emma" she wrote, "Half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" Jane Austen |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: 2 of her dramas are "Watch on the Rhine" & "The Children's Hour" Lillian Hellman |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $4,000 (Daily Double): She wrote for the Nebraska State Journal & the Pittsburgh Leader before penning "My Antonia" Willa Cather |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Milkman is the son of Ruth & Macon Dead in her novel "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: In 2004 Oprah picked this author's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for her book club Carson McCullers |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: Her 1997 bestseller "violin" might keep you up nights; not the playing of it, the reading of it Anne Rice |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is a 1968 collection of essays by her Joan Didion |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she wrote "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley" Patricia Highsmith |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: A sonnet by this poet ends, "And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a recent book by this Southern novelist & TV personality Fannie Flagg |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "The Window" & "Time Passes" are sections of her stream-of-consciousness novel "To the Lighthouse" Virginia Woolf |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: "Middlemarch" is one of her masterpieces George Eliot |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: Her 1899 book "The Awakening" shocked critics with its frankness about women's emotional lives Kate Chopin |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Her initials stand for Joanne Kathleen J.K. Rowling |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Some skeptics said that her novel "Wuthering Heights" must have been actually written by her brother Branwell Emily Bronte |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel is called "The Secret Life of" these insects Bees |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Her 1960 classic begins, "When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow" Harper Lee |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: The name of this Ann Patchett bestseller about a soprano is an Italian musical term Bel Canto |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Lydia & Kitty Bennett & Fitzwilliam Darcy are characters in a book by this woman Jane Austen |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: She intended her novel "Shirley" to be as "unromantic as Monday morning", as opposed to her previous novel "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Offred tells "The Handmaid's Tale" in a novel by this woman Margaret Atwood |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: This French author chose Audrey Hepburn to play Gigi onstage Colette |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Last name of Anne, sister of Emily & Charlotte, who wrote "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" Bronte |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Anne has been convinced not to marry Wentworth in this woman's novel "Persuasion" Jane Austen |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her "Black and Blue" was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998 Anna Quindlen |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Money & "A Room of One's Own" are needed if a woman is to be a writer, she asserted in a 1929 essay Virginia Woolf |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: In 1899 readers awakened to "The Awakening", written by this woman Kate Chopin |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: 10 years after this novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe was shocking again with "Lady Byron Vindicated" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: John Murray, Lord Byron's publisher, also put out this woman's "Emma" & "Mansfield Park" Jane Austen |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Virginia Woolf used this technique to convey the "river"like flow of a character's thoughts Stream of consciousness |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Hannah Arendt's book on Adolf Eichmann presented her theory known as "The Banality Of" this Evil |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: Offred is this title character whose "tale" is told in a Margaret Atwood novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Mary Chesnut's take on this U.S. war was part of a Ken Burns TV documentary the Civil War |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Her "Little House in the Big Woods" begins in Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: A young adult series by Madeleine L'Engle begins with the novel "A Wrinkle in" this Time |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Male pen name used by Danish baroness Karen Blixen for "Out Of Africa" Isak Dinesen |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In August 1996, Cross Creek, Florida & nearby Micanopy celebrated the 100th anniversary of her birth Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: In 1970 this Cosmopolitan editor offered her views on "Sex and the New Single Girl" Helen Gurley Brown |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: This bestselling author of "Jewels" & "Fine Things" has also written several children's books Danielle Steel |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: She began her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", while working at a hospital during WWI Agatha Christie |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: She dedicated the second edition of "Jane Eyre" to novelist William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Bronte |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: On winning his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest Hemingway said it should have gone to this "Beautiful" Danish writer instead Isak Dinesen |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: In 1909 Sweden's Selma Lagerlof became the 1st woman to win this award for Literature Nobel Prize |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Edna St. Vincent Millay was arrested for her vigil the night this pair was executed in 1927 Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Probably America's best known 19th c. female poet, she was dubbed the "Moth of Amherst" Emily Dickinson |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Anais Nin is famous for writing volumes of these, the 1st of which was published in 1966 diaries |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: Headmistress of a girl's school, she gained fame for writing "The Greek Way" at age 62 Edith Hamilton |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Related by marriage to Princess Diana, she's the queen of the romance novel Barbara Cartland |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Her collected stories won her '66 Pulitzer Prize, but her only novel, "Ship of Fools" won her fame Katherine Anne Porter |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: Short, dark creator of "Big Blonde", she was more famous for her wit around the Algonquin Round Table Dorothy Parker |
