| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $400: In "Return to Ithaca", Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson retold this ancient epic & set it in the 20th century The Odyssey |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | DUNCAN $1600: Artist Duncan Grant was a member of this London-named group of the 20th century writers & artists of whom he painted portraits the Bloomsbury Group |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800: A group of mid-20th century British writers were these "Young Men"--it's not "Jolly" Angry |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: He popularized the term "The Jazz Age" in a 1922 book title Fitzgerald |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: World Book says this "Main Street" author "died lonely and unhappy in Italy on Jan. 10, 1951" Sinclair Lewis |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1200: In 2005 Britain's National Portrait Gallery acquired the only known drawing of Ted Hughes by this writer, his wife Sylvia Plath |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1962 until his death in 1967, he was Poet Laureate of Illinois Carl Sandburg |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $2000: 3's the charm for this playwright whose "Three Tall Women" earned him his third Pulitzer Edward Albee |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $1200: Derenik Demirjyan & Hrant Matevosyan are 20th century writers from this former Soviet republic Armenia |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $400: 20th century American critic & novelist Carol Joyce Carol Oates |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: It reportedly took him about 10 years to write "The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: In 1905 this "Call of the Wild" author ran for mayor of Oakland, California as a Socialist Jack London |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $600: This poet's annual Christmas greeting for 1949 featured "On a tree fallen across the road" Robert Frost |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: He was admonished by the LAPD in 1971 for not getting permission to publish "The New Centurions" Joseph Wambaugh |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: "The Godwulf Manuscript" in 1974 was his first book about Boston policeman-turned-private eye Spenser Robert Parker |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: During WWII this author of 'The Naked and the Dead" was an infantry rifleman Norman Mailer |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: In 1965 he was overheard telling mafia stories & was offered $5,000 for a book about the underworld (Mario) Puzo |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $600: His "The Carpetbaggers" has gone through over 80 printings, selling over 10 million copies (Harold) Robbins |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: This author of "North and South" wrote the lyrics to the 1970 musical comedy "Dracula, Baby" John Jakes |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: As of 1994, 5 of his novels had been filmed, 4 with Helena Bonham Carter, including "A Room with a View" (E.M.) Forster |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: 1 of 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize 1 of ("A Streetcar Named Desire" or "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof") |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: Katherine Anne Porter book based on a journey she took from Veracruz to Bremerhaven in 1931 "Ship of Fools" |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $600: He created crossword puzzles for a Russian newspaper in Berlin before writing "Lolita" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1943 Daphne de Maurier moved into Menabilly, the manor this fictional place was based on Manderley |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: Writer whose "merry pranks" are detailed in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Ken Kesey |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: "Claudius the God" was the sequel to this novel by Robert Graves I, Claudius |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: Tennessee Williams called this "Virginia Woolf" writer "The only great playwright we've ever had in America" Edward Albee |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: This author of "A Bell for Adano" was at one time private secretary to Sinclair Lewis (John) Hersey |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: Of this, his magnum opus, Lawrence Durrell said, "Ideally, all 4 volumes should be read simultaneously" The Alexandria Quartet |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A critic called her "A major existentialist, not merely... a carbon copy of Sartre" Simone de Beauvoir |
