Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (47 results returned)

#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: In 1836 she married theologian Calvin Stowe, who encouraged her writing, saying she "must be a literary woman" Harriet Beecher Stowe
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Before writing "The Hunger Games", she wrote for children's TV shows, including "Clarissa Explains It All" (Suzanne) Collins
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Some say the phrase, "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to the family of this upper-class author of "The House of Mirth" (Edith) Wharton (born Edith Jones)
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson
#8251, aired 2020-10-05LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $400: Describing a book he was writing in 1881: "it's all about a map, and a treasure, and a mutiny, and a derelict ship" Robert Louis Stevenson
#7880, aired 2018-12-07ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: In 1855 he published an autobiography, "The Fairy Tale of My Life" (Hans Christian) Andersen
#7880, aired 2018-12-07ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Bill Clinton teamed with this man who's sold 350 mil. books to write the 2018 thriller "The President is Missing" (James) Patterson
#7880, aired 2018-12-07ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: This South Carolinian was the oldest son of an authoritarian Marine he depicted in "The Great Santini" (Pat) Conroy
#7880, aired 2018-12-07ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Hunter S. Thompson didn't coin this word; editor Bill Cardoso did, to describe Hunter's style of journalism gonzo
#7880, aired 2018-12-07ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Featured in several novels, a writer named Nathan Zuckerman was this author's fictional alter ego Philip Roth
#6566, aired 2013-03-18ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: On Dec. 1, 1859 he was laid to rest at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Washington) Irving
#6566, aired 2013-03-18ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: Former adman Jack Finney wrote this novel to which Hollywood added "Invasion of" The Body Snatchers
#6566, aired 2013-03-18ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: At Walt Disney's request, in 1945 this "Brave New World" author did some preliminary work on "Alice in Wonderland" (Aldous) Huxley
#6566, aired 2013-03-18ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): A narrator in this French author's multivolume work says, "The materials of my work consisted of my own past" Marcel Proust
#6566, aired 2013-03-18ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: He was born in Czechoslovakia but moved to England; his play "Rock 'N' Roll" is set in both places (Tom) Stoppard
#6543, aired 2013-02-13FROM ZORBA THE GREEK $800: Authors, take note: "All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to" do this write about it
#5649, aired 2009-03-12ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Parties at her Atlanta home--now a museum--serve martinis in Mason jars, a favorite of hers (Margaret) Mitchell
#5649, aired 2009-03-12ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" looked a bit like Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle when she wore a frilled white cap Beatrix Potter
#5649, aired 2009-03-12ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: This author who set "The Return of the Native" in Wessex had a terrier named Wessex (Thomas) Hardy
#5649, aired 2009-03-12ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend (Franklin) Pierce
#5649, aired 2009-03-12ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: She co-authored a book about "The Decoration of Houses" before writing "The House of Mirth" Edith Wharton
#5382, aired 2008-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: In the early 1920s she scandalized Atlanta society by doing a provocative dance at a debutante ball Margaret Mitchell
#5382, aired 2008-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed Halley's Comet
#5382, aired 2008-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: This seafaring author had a lot to "wail" about: his somber 1852 novel "Pierre" is semi-autobiographical Herman Melville
#5382, aired 2008-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: This novelist who wrote about gorillas in "Congo" is on the board of the Gorilla Foundation Michael Crichton
#5382, aired 2008-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: His father disapproved of his poetry writing, so Chile's Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto adopted this pen name Pablo Neruda
#4864, aired 2005-11-03ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum" P.G. Wodehouse
#4864, aired 2005-11-03ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the JFK Library & Museum.) The Kennedy Library has a fine collection of the papers & mementos of this writer, including an antelope that he shot on safari Hemingway
#4864, aired 2005-11-03ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: In his youth, this author of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" played the fiddle at weddings & dances Thomas Hardy
#4864, aired 2005-11-03ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: This author of "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" spent his last years with the former proprietress of a Florida brothel (Stephen) Crane
#4864, aired 2005-11-03ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: He was eventually buried in the Illinois cemetery that inspired his "Spoon River Anthology" Edgar Lee Masters
#3421, aired 1999-06-21AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: He tells you all about Fern, Wilbur & a certain spider when he reads his own "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White
#2873, aired 1997-02-12WOMEN AUTHORS $300: You'll find all you need to know about Anne, Emily & Charlotte in Juliet Barker's 1,000-page bio of this family The Brontes
#2626, aired 1996-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: It was the profession of Poe's mother & father & both his maternal grandparents—how dramatic actor
#2626, aired 1996-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Milan Kundera wrote his novel "The Unbearable Lightness of" this in Czech, his native language Being
#2626, aired 1996-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: He created the first crossword puzzles written in Russian before he wrote "Lolita" Nabokov
#2626, aired 1996-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): He had "The Right Stuff" to illustrate his own book about art criticism, "The Painted Word" (Tom) Wolfe
#2626, aired 1996-01-22ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Among this Baltimore wit's pseudonyms were Amelia Hatteras, Raoul Della Torre & The Ringmaster (H.L.) Mencken
#2513, aired 1995-07-05ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: He dedicated "Moby Dick" to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville
#2513, aired 1995-07-05ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: "The Remains of the Day" author Kazuo Ishiguro was a grouse beater for this grandmother of Prince Charles the Queen Mother
#2513, aired 1995-07-05ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: These brothers studied law at the University of Marburg before they started collecting folk tales the Brothers Grimm
#2513, aired 1995-07-05ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: This author of "Gorky Park" once wrote Western novels under the pseudonym Jake Logan Martin Cruz Smith
#2513, aired 1995-07-05ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: He managed the publicity for such films as "Pinocchio" before he wrote "The Manchurian Candidate" (Richard) Condon
#2418, aired 1995-02-22AUTHORS $800: Wounded during WWI, he later wrote about the war's horrors in "All Quiet on the Western Front" Remarque
#1986, aired 1993-04-05WILL SHAKESPEARE $200: It's believed Will was part of a group of authors who wrote a play about this "Man for All Seasons" Sir Thomas More
#1217, aired 1989-12-12AUTHORS $200: Welsh poet whose widow, Caitlin, wrote a tell-all book about him in 1987 Dylan Thomas

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (3 results returned)

#8792, aired 2023-01-24FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" (Vladimir) Nabokov
#7831, aired 2018-10-01WORLD LITERATURE: In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time Anna Karenina
#4632, aired 2004-10-26AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien

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