Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (39 results returned)

#8830, aired 2023-03-17IRISH AUTHORS $1600: This 3-named Irish author was a goner for actress Maud Gonne, who starred in his play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (William Butler) Yeats
#8543, aired 2021-12-29AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This 3-named author of "Them" & "We Were the Mulvaneys" is a professor of creative writing, emerita at Princeton Joyce Carol Oates
#8333, aired 2021-02-103-NAMED AUTHORS $400: This 19th century New England thinker penned the "Concord Hymn" & the essay "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8333, aired 2021-02-103-NAMED AUTHORS $800: In the 1830s, before she was a bestselling author, she lived in Cincinnati, across from a slave-holding community Harriet Beecher Stowe
#8333, aired 2021-02-103-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: His poems like "Kubla Khan" are celebrated for their lyricism Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#8333, aired 2021-02-103-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yentl creator's "Shadows on the Hudson" is about Jewish refugees in the aftermath of World War II Isaac Bashevis Singer
#8333, aired 2021-02-103-NAMED AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Simon & Schuster sponsors an award for suspense fiction named for this female author of "A Stranger is Watching" Mary Higgins Clark
#7605, aired 2017-10-0619th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess" Frances Hodgson Burnett
#7513, aired 2017-04-193-NAMED AUTHORS $400: Following the success of "Little Women", she wrote in her journal, "Paid up all the debts... thank the Lord!" (Louisa May) Alcott
#7513, aired 2017-04-193-NAMED AUTHORS $800: Tarzana, in California's San Fernando Valley, is named for this resident's most famous creation Edgar Rice Burroughs
#7513, aired 2017-04-193-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: His "The General in His Labyrinth" is a historical novel about Simon Bolivar's last days Gabriel García Marquez
#7513, aired 2017-04-193-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: "Here I Am"--that's the 2016 novel by this "Everything Is Illuminated" author, & here he is (Jonathan Safran) Foer
#7513, aired 2017-04-193-NAMED AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a 1902 novel he wrote, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
#6872, aired 2014-07-013-NAMED AUTHORS $400: On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder
#6872, aired 2014-07-013-NAMED AUTHORS $800: In 1966 Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of this defense lawyer, appeared as a judge in the final episode of the TV series Perry Mason
#6872, aired 2014-07-013-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: In 1936 he published an autobiography titled "Across Spoon River" Edgar Lee Masters
#6872, aired 2014-07-013-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: In 2014 she celebrated her 50th year as a novelist with the release of "Carthage" Joyce Carol Oates
#6872, aired 2014-07-013-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" was translated into English in 1953 Isaac Bashevis Singer
#6559, aired 2013-03-07LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $2000: This 3-named poet maintained his successful Chicago law practice while penning works like "Spoon River Anthology" Edgar Lee Masters
#6381, aired 2012-05-213-NAMED AUTHORS $200: He followed up "Kidnapped" with a sequel called "Catriona" that didn't fare quite as well Robert Louis Stevenson
#6381, aired 2012-05-213-NAMED AUTHORS $400: In 1917, 3 years after "Tarzan of the Apes", he wrote "A Princess of Mars", the first of 11 John Carter novels Edgar Rice Burroughs
#6381, aired 2012-05-213-NAMED AUTHORS $600: In 1985 he published the South America-set "Love in the Time of Cholera" Gabriel García Márquez
#6381, aired 2012-05-213-NAMED AUTHORS $800: Sadly, in 2008, this author of "Infinite Jest" took his own life David Foster Wallace
#6381, aired 2012-05-213-NAMED AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Her final resting place is a Missouri cemetery where she shares a headstone with husband Almanzo Laura Ingalls Wilder
#5784, aired 2009-11-053-NAMED AUTHORS $200: She followed up "Little Women" with "An Old-Fashioned Girl" & "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag" Louisa May Alcott
#5784, aired 2009-11-053-NAMED AUTHORS $400: Britannica says her 1852 novel helped "solidify both pro- and antislavery sentiment" Harriet Beecher Stowe
#5784, aired 2009-11-053-NAMED AUTHORS $600: One of his most famous heroes was an Ojibwa Indian who married Minnehaha Longfellow
#5784, aired 2009-11-053-NAMED AUTHORS $800: This pal of Emerson was known for a little "Civil Disobedience" Henry David Thoreau
#5784, aired 2009-11-053-NAMED AUTHORS $1000: This Devonshire-born man rhymed about an "Ancient Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#4220, aired 2002-12-273-NAMED AUTHORS $400: His novels include "The Prairie", "The Pioneers", & "The Pathfinder" James Fenimore Cooper
#4220, aired 2002-12-273-NAMED AUTHORS $800: She wrote "Jo's Boys" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel Louisa May Alcott
#4220, aired 2002-12-273-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This "Ship of Fools" author won a Pulitzer & the National Book Award for her 1965 "Collected Stories" Katherine Anne Porter
#4220, aired 2002-12-273-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: The movie "Yentl" was based on a story by him Isaac Bashevis Singer
#4220, aired 2002-12-273-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In 2001 this novelist & short story writer's "We Were the Mulvaneys" was chosen for Oprah's Book Club Joyce Carol Oates
#4126, aired 2002-07-083-NAMED AUTHORS $400: When this "Paul Revere's Ride" author was born in what's now Portland, Maine, the city was part of Massachusetts Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#4126, aired 2002-07-083-NAMED AUTHORS $800: His preface to the play "Saint Joan" says, "Not one of Joan's comrades...ever claimed that she was pretty" George Bernard Shaw
#4126, aired 2002-07-083-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: (Jeff Probst in the Marquesas.) In 1888 this adventure author & his wife Fanny spent about three weeks on Nuku Hiva Robert Louis Stevenson
#4126, aired 2002-07-083-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: In 1917, after almost 30 years in love with Maud Gonne, this Irish poet proposed to her daughter William Butler Yeats
#4126, aired 2002-07-083-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: A rhyme says he, "by a mighty effort of will, overcame his...bonhomie & wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'" John Stuart Mill

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#6269, aired 2011-12-15AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes Washington Irving

Players (1 result returned)

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