| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: To write, a woman needs "money and a room of her own", declared this 20th century author (Virginia) Woolf |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Translated into French in 1936, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" influenced this man's spare prose in "The Stranger" (Albert) Camus |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too" A Room with a View |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States Being There |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Sick of this character who talks to animals, Hugh Lofting tried to end the series with him "in the Moon"; didn't work Doctor Dolittle |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" reports on these events that happened in those cities in 1968 national conventions (Democratic and Republican) |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: Chronicler of Broadway life Alfred Runyon went by this middle name; it has more of a ring to it Damon |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: Known primarily for his crime novels, he started out writing western tales like "Hombre" & "3:10 to Yuma" Elmore Leonard |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $2000: John Fowles interrupts himself in this novel he wrote, commenting on the lives of the 1867 lovers at the heart of the action The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | AUTHORS $1000: He saw a lot of 20th century innovations coming before anyone else H.G. Wells |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: Study this language at Bennington & you may take the class on "Svevo & Tozzi"--2 20th century authors Italian |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Ayn Rand once cited this late Mike Hammer author as her favorite popular writer Mickey Spillane |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: A friend since childhood, she helped Truman Capote research "In Cold Blood" before publishing her own novel (Harper) Lee |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables" Thomas Pynchon |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: It's no mystery that this Englishwoman wrote romantic fiction under the pen name Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: On publication in 1915, his "The Rainbow" was labeled obscene & banned, & unsold copies were destroyed D.H. Lawrence |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's 1956 Grand National Steeplechase when his horse gave out Dick Francis |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Her career took off after publishing "Fear of Flying" in 1973 Erica Jong |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: Sinclair Lewis dedicated "Babbitt" to this author of "The Age of Innocence" (Edith) Wharton |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: This doctor has made the rounds with such medical thrillers as "Coma", "Shock" & "Toxin" Robin Cook |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $2000: This author of the "Deadly Sin" novels also wrote several books featuring playboy sleuth Archy McNally Lawrence Sanders |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: It wasn't until 7 years after publishing "Lord of the Flies" that he retired from teaching in England William Golding |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Mrs. Morel in "Sons and Lovers" is based in part on his own mom D.H. Lawrence |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Let the trumpets sound! Bang "The Tin Drum"! He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature Gunter Grass |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament" Anthony Burgess |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Barbara Vine is a pseudonym of this leading British mystery writer of today Ruth Rendell |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | WORLD HODGEPODGE $300: Jorge Icaza, who was born in Quito, was one of this country's most famous 20th century authors Ecuador |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Danish writer Peter Hoeg had a bestseller about her "Sense of Snow" Smilla |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Active as a lawyer from age 21, he used a dictating machine to write his Perry Mason novels Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: In this Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montag doesn't put out fires, he starts them Fahrenheit 451 |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: The British born & bred Evelyn Waugh set this satirical 1948 novel in California The Loved One |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer & Nobel Prizes in 1976 Saul Bellow |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Like "Presumed Innocent", his novel "Burden Of Proof" is set in fictional Kindle County Scott Turow |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: This "Ragtime" author's initials stand for Edgar Laurence E.L. Doctorow |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: His WWII imprisonment in a Dresden slaughterhouse inspired "Slaughterhouse-Five" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: In his 1st book, "The Boo", Pat Conroy wrote about this South Carolina military academy, his alma mater The Citadel |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: "Letting Go" was the 1st full-length novel by this author of "Goodbye, Columbus" Philip Roth |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan" is a 1939 novel by this author of "Brave New World" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth", wrote this playwright in "The Little Foxes" (Lillian) Hellman |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: A collector of his novels would own copies of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" & "The Collector" John Fowles |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: She was only 19 when she published her first novel, "The Outsiders", in 1967 (S. E.) Hinton |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: He set his novel "The Tin Drum" in & around Danzig, his hometown (Günter) Grass |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: He published his first novel, "A Daughter of the Snows", the year before "The Call of the Wild" Jack London |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Sportswriter & "Poseidon Adventure" author Paul Gallico helped begin this amateur boxing event the Golden Gloves |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Her novel "Ship of Fools" was inspired by a 28-day voyage she made from Mexico to Germany in 1931 Katherine Anne Porter |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: In 1962, the year he published "Travels with Charley", he won the Nobel Prize for Literature John Steinbeck |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author of 1985's "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" was once a stage manager for the "Howdy Doody" show Dominick Dunne |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: He dedicated "For Whom the Bell Tolls" to wife Martha Gellhorn, a fellow Spanish Civil War correspondent Ernest Hemingway |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Called "Russia's Greatest Living Dissident", this Nobel Prize winner returned to his homeland in 1994 Solzhenitsyn |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: He studied at Glasgow Veterinary College & began practice in Yorkshire in 1940 (James) Herriot |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: He named Spenser, his famous detective, after English poet Edmund Spenser Robert Parker |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author of "A Clockwork Orange" wrote the lyrics to the 1973 musical "Cyrano" Anthony Burgess |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Shakespeare is a character in this "Fear of Flying" author's "Serenissima: A Novel of Venice" (Erica) Jong |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: She was a school bus driver in the Australian Outback before she wrote "The Thorn Birds" (Colleen) McCullough |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: His 1910 novel "Howards End" became a play in 1967 & a film in 1992 (E.M.) Forster |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: This "I, Claudius" novelist was the son of an Irish poet (Robert) Graves |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: In 1974 Professor Irwin Corey accepted this recluse's Nat'l Book Award for "Gravity's Rainbow" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: You could call Lorelei Lee a "Loos woman" since this author created her Anita Loos |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: William Styron grew up near the site of this man's revolt & later wrote a novel about his "confessions" Nat Turner |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: "Myra Breckinridge" author who was the model for Brinker Hadley in John Knowles' "A Separate Peace" Gore Vidal |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Thomas Wolfe was born in 1900 & entered the University of this, his native state, at age 15 North Carolina |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson Gertrude Stein |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $100: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road" Charles Kuralt |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: "The Old Gringo" fictionalizes Ambrose Bierce's last mysterious days in this country Mexico |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $300: "Darkness Visible" is "A Memoir of Madness" by this author of "Sophie's Choice" William Styron |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: The 3rd volume of Bruce Catton's "Army of the Potomac" trilogy was called "A Stillness at" this place Appomattox |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $500: This Tom Robbins' novel is dedicated in part to "all cowgirls everywhere" Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $100: "My lips are sealed, but my Underwood is indiscreet", is a line from "Tru", a one-man show about him Truman Capote |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author of "The Group" was born in 1912 & orphaned in 1918 when her parents died in a flu epidemic Mary McCarthy |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $300: First name shared by author Roth & a character in his 1990 novel "Deception" Philip |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: He hadn't written "Franny & Zooey" yet when Oona O'Neill spurned him for Charlie Chaplin Salinger |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $500: He dedicated "Texasville", his sequel to "The Last Picture Show", to Cybil Shepherd (Larry) McMurtry |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | 20th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS: He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes) |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends (Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962 John Steinbeck |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch Harper Lee |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1956 she published "Venice Observed" & her brother Kevin starred in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Mary McCarthy |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death Ernest Hemingway |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | AUTHORS: Once rejected as too far-fetched, his 1863 novel "Paris in the 20th Century" was published for the 1st time in 1994 Jules Verne |
