| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $800: "B", 1956: Appropriately, "Giovanni's Room" by this man from Harlem is about an American living in Paris (James) Baldwin |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Guy Montag reads aloud from a book to his wife's shocked friends Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Canadian environmentalist Farley Mowat is best known for bringing sympathy to a predator in "Never Cry" this Wolf |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1991 novel by Canadian Douglas Coupland gave a name to a whole cohort born around the same time Generation X |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1947 play "All My Sons" is about a businessman whose substandard airplane parts cost young men their lives (Arthur) Miller |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Laura Esquivel bestseller refers to a sweet recipe but also a state of passion or anger Like Water for Chocolate |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale Rip Van Winkle |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska My Antonia |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $2000: In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Sinclair Lewis |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $2000: Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts (Ezra) Pound |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $400: A 1970s special Pulitzer winner: "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $200: Edward Lansdale, a U.S. officer in Asia, was a model for the novel "The Ugly" this & possibly for "The Quiet" this also American |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $800: Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay the Spanish-American War |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character "fell asleep on the mountain...and every thing's changed--and I'm changed" Rip Van Winkle |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: George & Nick are professors in the college town of New Carthage in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her alter ego Jo March gets $100 for a story she has written (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending "Gift of the Magi" |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: E.L. Doctorow's novel "The March" uses this general's 1864 trek through Georgia as its backdrop General Sherman |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: In a 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, Civil War vet John Carter is magically transported here Mars |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): In Oz she's the good witch who helps Dorothy get back to Kansas Glinda |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | EUGENE $600: He's seen here around the time he became only the 2nd American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $400: His "Green Hills of Africa" is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s Hemingway |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $800: "The Times They Are A-Changin"', from his 1964 album of the same name, became an instant anthem Bob Dylan |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2000: The 2nd & 3rd books in Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first the Snopes family |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part 3 of this novel by Ray Bradbury is called "Burning Bright" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The narrator & protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye" also appeared in other stories by J.D. Salinger Holden Caulfield |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Kidnapped & sold into slavery, Solomon Northup told of his experiences in this memoir that became a movie 12 Years a Slave |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: Originally published anonymously, his essay on "Nature" helped launch Transcendentalism Emerson |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $500 (Daily Double): Mario Vargas Llosa based "The Time of the Hero" on his harsh treatment in military school in this South American capital Lima |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 this author created the Kinte foundation Alex Haley |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state Iowa |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, this is Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark) Twain |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZES $800: The Literature Prize went to this American singer & songwriter Bob Dylan |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Pequod was the whalers' doomed ship in this classic Moby-Dick |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: With "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72", he went gonzo over the presidential election Hunter Thompson |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this 1997 play it's shampoo, set & socialize for a group of women passing time in a Louisiana beauty salon Steel Magnolias |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: He's the giant of American lit seen here near the end of his life Robert Frost |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "My Bondage and My Freedom" from 1855 is his second autobiography Frederick Douglass |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | LITERARY LATIN AMERICA $1200: Gauchesco is literature about the South American equivalent of this American job cowboy |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Holden Caulfield has an older brother named D.B. & a little sister named Phoebe The Catcher in the Rye |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Blanche) DuBois |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "The Luck of" this noisy-sounding "Camp" is a not-so-cheery story by Bret Harte Roaring |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Roots |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $1600: A classic of African-American literature, his 1940 novel "Native Son" was adapted into a play the following year Richard Wright |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" in this work Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1852 novel says, "It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This novel ends, "Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll save for noon. For noon... when we reach the city" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1906 novel was meant to be a companion piece to "The Call of the Wild" White Fang |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In a short story by this man, Percy says his father has "a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $2000: "Across the River & Into the Trees" was a 1950 bestseller by this giant of American literature Ernest Hemingway |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A poem of his says grass is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Walt) Whitman |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death "The Lottery" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 1882 story by Frank Stockton leaves its title question unanswered "The Lady, or the Tiger?" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $2000: Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | LITERATURE $800: Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son" James Baldwin |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The plot of Dubose Heyward's "Porgy" is Porgy meets her, Porgy gets her, Porgy loses her Bess |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt Daniel Webster |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific" Ishmael |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: His 1942 story "The Bear" relates the story of Ike McCaslin & his companions as they hunt a bear named Old Ben Faulkner |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: Her first publications were accounts of the travels of her & husband Almanzo in the De Smet News in South Dakota Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | LITERATURE $1200: The 2012 book "Portrait of a Novel" is about "Henry James & the Making of" this "American masterpiece" Portrait of a Lady |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Langston Hughes called this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "the most cussed & discussed book of its time" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Mark Twain book contains such chapters as "The Ogre's Castle" & "Merlin's Tower" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Mess officer Milo Minderbinder profits by working both sides during World War II in this 1961 novel Catch-22 |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: His 1949 collection of stories "Knight's Gambit" features Gavin Stevens, a county attorney from Yoknapatawpha Faulkner |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Ray Bradbury tale, the title character has tattoos that move & change, each telling a story The Illustrated Man |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | 17th CENTURY WORDS $400: The first printed reference to this North American marsupial was in promotional literature for the Jamestown Colony an opossum |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake An American Tragedy |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $2000: This 19th century American writer's scary short stories include "The Sphinx" & "The Oblong Box" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | SUMMER SCHOOL AT YALE $1000: "Modern American Literature, 1900-1950" looked at Cather, Eliot & this "Rose is a rose is a rose" writer, among others (Gertrude) Stein |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "The Deerslayer" was the last written, but first chronologically, of his "Leatherstocking Tales" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this J.D. Salinger novel, the main character asks a cab driver where the Central Park ducks go in the winter The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as "El Campeon" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1988 book "A Different Kind of Christmas" was based on a story outline for the TV film "Roots: The Gift" Alex Haley |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The manuscript for "Billy Budd" was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death Herman Melville |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This South American's "The General in His Labyrinth" is a fictional biography of Simon Bolivar Gabriel García Márquez |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the acclaimed "Roots", a 7-generation family chronicle (Alex) Haley |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He created the reluctant private eye Ezekiel Rawlins, nicknamed "Easy" Walter Mosley |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club (Richard) Wright |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1953 novel by James Baldwin is based on his own experiences as a teenaged preacher Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII Catch-22 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Old Stony Phiz in "The Great Stone Face" by this author of "Twice-Told Tales" is said to be based on Daniel Webster Hawthorne |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: A 1936 operetta, "The Headless Horseman", was based on this 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child's doctor bill pearl |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life" Look Homeward, Angel |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His 1841-42 South Pacific voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided the basis for his most famous novel (Herman) Melville |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire Grover's Corners |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, "The Murders" here in the Rue Morgue |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $400: Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 & this American literary prize in 1953 the Pulitzer |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $200: Stephen Crane subtitled this novel "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $800 (Daily Double): Alejo Carpentier used this term for Latin American literature that has elements of the fantastic & the mundane Magical Realism |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $400: 5 of the 7 American winners of this literary honor have been diagnosed as alcoholics the Nobel Prize (for Literature) |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1000: In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature Sinclair Lewis |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled "Hester and the Physician" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants The Color Purple |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Henry Fleming, the hero of "The Red Badge of Courage", reappeared in his short story "Lynx-Hunting" Stephen Crane |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot The Sound and the Fury |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This poet published her novel "The Bell Jar" using the pseudonym Victoria Lucas (Sylvia) Plath |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Song to" this liberator was a famous patriotic poem written by Ecuador's Jose Joaquin Olmedo in 1825 Bolivar |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic gauchos |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Alex Haley described this 1976 blockbuster as "faction", a combination of fact & fiction Roots |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This poet & author called the first volume of her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His autobiography "Black Boy" was originally the first section of a longer work called "American Hunger" Richard Wright |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: While serving time in prison, he wrote "Soul on Ice", a series of essays on prejudice & racism Eldridge Cleaver |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: It shouldn't take "100 Years" to figure out this Colombian wrote "News of a Kidnapping" Gabriel García Márquez |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Her 2003 memoir was titled "My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile" Isabel Allende |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Born Neftali Reyes, this Nobel-winning Chilean poet penned "Elementary Odes" in 1954 Pablo Neruda |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Shaw was "GBS"; this Argentine writer of "Ficciones" & "Labyrinths" could've gone by "JLB" Jorge Luis Borges |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: The first novel by "Kiss of the Spider Woman" author Manuel Puig was "Betrayed By" this screen siren Rita Hayworth |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel In Cold Blood |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A battle to keep a girl from the clutches of Satan takes place in this William Peter Blatty novel that turned heads in '71 The Exorcist |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this Tom Robbins novel, Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs & hitchhikes across America Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre) |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This American's stories like "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" are in a style some have called K-Mart Realism Raymond Carver |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | TURN ME LEWIS $600: He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Sinclair Lewis |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Perhaps he was just being modest when he said that his "Invisible Man" was "not an important novel" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Toni Morrison |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right Terry McMillan |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The Honor and Glory of Whaling" is a chapter in this American masterpiece Moby-Dick |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, "The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1894 Mark Twain took this character "Abroad"; 2 years later, he became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This Sinclair Lewis physician begins his practice in his wife's hometown, Wheatsylvania, North Dakota (Martin) Arrowsmith |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Pyncheon Street, previously called Maule's Lane, was the location of this title home The House of the Seven Gables |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In this 1940 novel, deaf-mute John Singer commits suicide when he learns his friend Spiros has died The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Sartoris" published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In England his 1950 science fiction novel "The Martian Chronicles" was titled "The Silver Locusts" Bradbury |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: 1926's top 2 fiction sellers were John Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" & this Anita Loos book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1925 novel contains the line "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy" The Great Gatsby |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 140-pound character in "The Call of the Wild" is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard Buck |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Books by this Nobel Prize winner include "Love", "Beloved" & "Tar Baby" Toni Morrison |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This Willa Cather novel is divided into 5 books, the first being "The Shimerdas" My Antonia |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,400 (Daily Double): Hemingway's epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, "One generation passeth away..." The Sun Also Rises |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time The Natural |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels Louis L'Amour |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This "Age of Innocence" author made her debut in society in 1879 (Edith) Wharton |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck) |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This Sinclair Lewis doctor attempts to halt an epidemic on a West Indian island with his anti-bacterial serum Martin Arrowsmith |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, "I am an invisible man" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | LITERATURE $1000: "I Married a Communist", "The Human Stain" & "American Pastoral" make up a recent trilogy by this novelist Philip Roth |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath" leaves this Dust Bowl state & heads to California Oklahoma |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In "Following the Equator", this humorist wrote, "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it" Mark Twain |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In one scene in this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with her car The Great Gatsby |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a "History of the Navy of the United States" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel "The Centaur" John Updike |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: A scientist tests poison on his own daughter in this American author's 1840s story "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: In December 1993 Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman awarded this international literature prize the Nobel Prize |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Like many of his works, Steinbeck's story "Flight" takes place along the coast of this state's Monterey County California |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A year before "Little Women" was published, she became editor of a juvenile magazine called Merry's Museum (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Herman Melville's 18-month voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided a factual basis for this 1851 novel Moby Dick |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" on glimpsing the title home in this Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: About this book Emerson wrote to Whitman, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy" Leaves of Grass |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His scary 1842 story "The Masque of the Red Death" begins, "The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jim Smiley kept this "celebrated" animal of a Mark Twain story in "a little lattice box" the jumping frog of Calaveras county |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This novel's widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: It's the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale Amontillado |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This 19th century female character "raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale's church" Hester Prynne |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1925 Anita Loos book was subtitled "The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 15-year-old E.L. Doctorow high school dropout joins gangster Dutch Schultz' mob Billy Bathgate |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi Huckleberry Finn |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley A Farewell to Arms |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey Cannery Row |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell "Studs" |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck Wolf Larsen |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This character once asked Becky Thatcher, "Do you love rats?" Tom Sawyer |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this Louisa May Alcott novel, Jo March writes a play, "The Witch's Curse" "Little Women" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The whaling ship in this classic novel had 3 harpooners: Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg "Moby Dick" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this 1952 Hemingway story, Santiago goes 84 days without catching a fish, then hooks a gigantic marlin "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this 1939 John Steinbeck novel was taken from a Julia Ward Howe song "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $800: The film seen here is an adaptation of this classic American novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: His novel "The Pioneers" has been called the "finest detailed portrait of frontier life in American literature" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $800: In the '30s this "Our Town" dramatist was a lecturer on literature at the University of Chicago Thornton Wilder |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | LITERATURE $800: A review said this 1979 William Styron novel "belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces" Sophie's Choice |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | LITERATURE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in New Orleans.) This author of the classic American novel "Winesburg, Ohio" once lived here in the Pontalba Apartments on Jackson Square Sherwood Anderson |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He complained to Tom Sawyer that the widow Douglas "makes me wash" Huck Finn |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Ishmael called him the incarnation of "all the subtle demonisms of life and thought" Moby Dick |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This Jack London title canine is tormented by one of his owners to make him savage enough to win dogfights White Fang |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Brom Bones tells the story of the Headless Horseman in "The Legend of" this place Sleepy Hollow |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | LITERATURE $400: This American novelist created the old fisherman Santiago & the young bullfighter Pedro Romero Hemingway |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature Chile |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This title character in an 1876 novel asks, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Tom Sawyer |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to "chase that white whale on both sides of land" "Moby Dick" |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He's the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone Washington Irving |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The one word uttered by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" "Nevermore" |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Sadly, in a James Fenimore Cooper novel Chingachgook was called "The Last of" this group the Mohicans |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | LITERATURE $1000: In 1981 American playwright Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize for this "criminal" play Crimes of the Heart |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Some of his stories of the Yukon were published in the 1910 collection "Lost Face" Jack London |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not" Ernest Hemingway |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Horseman, Pass By", the first novel by this Texan, was made into the movie "Hud" in 1963 Larry McMurtry |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1936 novel by Faulkner tells the story of Thomas Sutpen & bears the name of an Old Testament figure "Absalom, Absalom!" |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Her essays in "Against Interpretation" & "On Photography" call for an emotive response to creative works Susan Sontag |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: Urged to make his peace with God, this "Walden" author replied, "I did not know we had ever quarreled" Henry David Thoreau |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Clement C. Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is more popularly known by this title "Twas' the Night Before Christmas" |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" begins his poem "The Village Blacksmith" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In Fred Gipson's novel, this "colorful" dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s Old Yeller |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: One of his best known works was "The Man Without a Country", but he himself was a man from Boston Edward Everett Hale |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: This "Beloved" author was the first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | LITERATURE $1000: Balzac wrote "La Comedie Humaine" in the 1840s & this American wrote "The Human Comedy" in the 1940s William Saroyan |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23 "The Red Badge of Courage" |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Reading is out as books go up in smoke in this Ray Bradbury classic "Fahrenheit 451" |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Upton Sinclair expose of the meatpacking industry led to the passage of a Pure Food & Drug Act "The Jungle" |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Daisy Buchanan's cousin, he narrates "The Great Gatsby" Nick Carraway |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel "Beloved" |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He's best known for his "Cien Anos de Soledad", or "100 Years Of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Chilean poet to whom Massimo Troisi delivered mail as "The Postman" Pablo Neruda |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Aphrodite: A Memoir Of The Senses" is a 1998 novel from this "House Of The Spirits" author Isabel Allende |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck's harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel Moby-Dick |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This novel begins: "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony..." The Maltese Falcon |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The line "A dozen Hurons fell by a discharge from Chingachgook and his band" is from this novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Upton Sinclair novel that ends: "Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours!" The Jungle |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Novel in which Willa Cather wrote, "The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family" in the area My Ántonia |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $1000: Medal given for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" Newbery Medal |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "The Color Purple" |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "You Can't Go Home Again" until you name this author who wrote it Thomas Wolfe |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1991 Robert Pirsig published "Lila", a follow-up to his classic "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In titles of novels by John Updike, it precedes "Run", "is Rich" & "at Rest" Rabbit |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a follow-up to his "Black Boy" Richard Wright |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: To research "Airport", he spent hours in airports absorbing the atmosphere Arthur Hailey |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Hemingway took the title of this novel about journalist Jake Barnes from a passage in Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this 1946 novel, "There wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie" Stark All the King's Men |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Nature", an essay by this transcendentalist, was published anonymously in 1836 Emerson |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "Tom Sawyer" this newcomer to St. Petersburg is described as "a blue-eyed creature with yellow hair" Becky Thatcher |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: J.N. Reynolds' "Mocha Dick", about a white whale, was published 12 years before this man's "Moby Dick" Herman Melville |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: World leader who was the subject of David Halberstam's 1971 book "Ho" Ho Chi Minh |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Thomas Pynchon followed "V" with this novel about the V-2 rocket Gravity's Rainbow |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: If you read her new book "Sex & The Single Girl" at 21 you're 57 now (& no longer a girl) Helen Gurley Brown |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Olive Chancellor was into woman's lib in his 1886 novel "The Bostonians" Henry James |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb East of Eden |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights The Natural |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this 1985 novel, E.L. Doctorow recalled life & the Expo in NYC during the 1930s World's Fair |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: After he becomes wealthy, this Horatio Alger title character uses the name Richard Hunter, Esq. Ragged Dick |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Mark Twain used the tall tale form in his book about "Life on" this river Mississippi River |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He described the setting of "Cannery Row" as "A poem, a stink...a habit, a nostalgia, a dream" John Steinbeck |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The books of his "U.S.A." trilogy contain "newsreels" made up of headlines & catchphrases John Dos Passos |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote the short story "Nightfall", a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old Isaac Asimov |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,...appeared the letter A" The Scarlet Letter |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This vice president is the title character of a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal Aaron Burr |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a 1951 Pulitzer for his "Complete Poems" & one in 1940 for "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" (Carl) Sandburg |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: When featured on "Oprah", her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" returned to the bestseller list in 1996 Toni Morrison |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Francis Phelan an ex-baseball player, is the main character in this author's "Ironweed" William Kennedy |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was "told to" this deeply rooted author Alex Haley |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This legendary fruit tree planter was the subject of a work by Vachel Lindsay Johnny Appleseed |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: Title of Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about men he described as "single-combat warriors" The Right Stuff |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: As the first, it jump-started John Updike's series of novels about Harry Angstrom Rabbit, Run |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: This famous tale of Christmas presents isn't one in a million, but one in O Henry's book "The Four Million" "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: It begins, "'Tom!' No answer. 'Tom!' No answer. 'What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, Tom!'" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He published "Marjorie Morningstar" 16 years before "The Winds of War" Herman Wouk |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He set "The Last Picture Show" & "Texasville" in the fictional town of Thalia Larry McMurtry |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This novel of high society made Edith Wharton the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Age of Innocence |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this Ralph Ellison novel refers to its nameless narrator & protagonist Invisible Man |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Harpooneers in this novel include Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg, a cannibal Moby Dick |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This 1950 Ray Bradbury book collected 26 stories about Earth's colonization of Mars The Martian Chronicles |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1854 Thoreau work is subtitled "Or Life in the Woods" Walden |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", this character kills Dr. Robinson, a murder witnessed by Tom Injun Joe |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Sons", the second novel in her "House of Earth" trilogy, traces the lives of Wang Lung's 3 sons Pearl S. Buck |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In a Longfellow poem, Minnehaha marries this Indian hero Hiawatha |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His story "MS. Found in a Bottle" was the prize-winning entry in an 1833 newspaper contest Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "White Fang", Jack London reversed the theme of this earlier novel Call of the Wild |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1990 his "Stranger in a Strange Land" was reissued with 60,000 words that had been cut from the original Robert Heinlein |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: John Steinbeck first came to prominence with this 1935 novel about a group of Mexican-Americans Tortilla Flat |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | LITERATURE $500: In 1914, 146 of this late American's poems were published by her niece under the title "The Single Hound" Emily Dickinson |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His "Red Badge Of Courage" first appeared in shortened form in the Philadelphia press Stephen Crane |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924 Zane Grey |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Characters in this Hemingway novel include Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley & Pedro Romero, a bullfighter The Sun Also Rises |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Some of the names in this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work were taken from tombstones in a Lewiston, Illinois cemetery Spoon River Anthology |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This novel about love, marriage & regret earned Anne Tyler a 1989 Pulitzer Prize Breathing Lessons |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He took the title of his "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from a work by John Donne Ernest Hemingway |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Union soldier Henry Fleming is the hero of this 1895 Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage" |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Amy Tan novel tells the stories of 4 Chinese-born women & their American daughters "The Joy Luck Club" |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is a 1970 autobiography by this African-American poet Maya Angelou |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Rappaccini's Daughter" is one of the short stories featured in his "Mosses From An Old Manse" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | LITERATURE $800: Published in 1923, "The Prophet" is a book of 28 poetic essays by this Lebanese-American Kahlil Gibran |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | SINCLAIR LEWIS $400: Lewis was the 1st American to win this award; he received it 4 years after turning down a Pulitzer the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| #2770, aired 1996-09-20 | LITERATURE $600: Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" tells the story of an American writer in this European capital Paris |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: He became the first American to win the Literature Prize the year after his "Dodsworth" appeared Sinclair Lewis |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): An African-American woman named Sula Peace is the heroine of this "Beloved" author's novel "Sula" Toni Morrison |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | QUOTATIONS $400: Hemingway wrote, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called" this "Huckleberry Finn" |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Jo's Boys" was her second sequel to "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "George's Mother" is a lesser-known novel by this author of "The Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): Norman Mailer called book one, part seven of this "true life novel" "Death Row" The Executioner's Song |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He dedicated "Look Homeward, Angel" to his married lover Aline Bernstein Thomas Wolfe |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His "Growth" trilogy of novels includes "The Turmoil", "The Magnificent Ambersons" & "The Midlander" (Booth) Tarkington |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this book Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His 1840 novel "The Pathfinder" is subtitled "The Inland Sea" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "Of Mice and Men", he accidentally kills Curley's wife by breaking her neck Lennie (Small) |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His first collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems", was published in 1827 & credited to "A Bostonian" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Hemingway story, a writer dies from a gangrenous leg while on an African safari The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He first wrote about a woman doomed to wear the letter in his 1838 story "Endicott and the Red Cross" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Henry March in his novel "The Deerslayer" is nicknamed Hurry Harry because he's always on the move James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The storytelling characters in his book "Tales of a Wayside Inn" are based on real people (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This "Sophie's Choice" author set his 1st novel, "Lie Down in Darkness", in his native Virginia William Styron |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Book one of this Willa Cather novel is entitled "The Shimerdas" "My Antonia" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: It's the crime for which Hester Prynne is condemned to wear "The Scarlet Letter" Adultery |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Uncas, a young chieftain, is identified as this title character "The Last of the Mohicans" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In a John Steinbeck work, this title object found by Kino the fisherman is as big as a seagull's egg "The Pearl" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1941 Budd Schulberg novel chronicles the rise of Sammy Glick from office boy to film tycoon "What Makes Sammy Run?" |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis spent several months researching Midwestern Protestantism for this 1927 novel "Elmer Gantry" |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: This author of "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" was the first black American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A chapter from "Life on the Mississippi" was intended for this "Tom Sawyer" sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This "Magnificent" Booth Tarkington novel was the second book in his "Growth" trilogy The Magnificent Ambersons |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1930 this author dramatized her 1946 novel "The Member of the Wedding" Carson McCullers |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The middle name of this Sinclair Lewis title character is Follansbee (George F.) Babbitt |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "The Old Man and the Sea", this Cuban fisherman finally hooks a marlin after almost 3 months Santiago |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Alex Haley work is subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: James A. Michener used this war as a background for "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" & "Sayonara" Korean War |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This recent James Redfield novel tells of an ancient manuscript fround in Peru The Celestine Prophecy |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1939 James Thurber short story about a henpecked husband was first published in The New Yorker The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): John Updike has won 2 Pulitzer Prizes for novels about this title character Rabbit Angstrom |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | LITERATURE $1000: This American's 1860 novel "The Marble Faun" was published in England under the title "Transformation" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: She wrote what she called "rubbishy novels" before the success of "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Geo. Washington Cable's 1880 novel "The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life" is set in this city New Orleans |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Theodore Dreiser heroine is 18 when she leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago Sister Carrie |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Sherwood Anderson's 1st title for this 1919 collection of stories was "The Book of the Grotesque" Winesburg, Ohio |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: King David's lament for his third son inspired the title of this author's "Absalom, Absalom!" (William) Faulkner |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His famous story "The Premature Burial" is set "some miles down the banks of" the James River in Virginia Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "A Tree of Night" is a 1949 collection of short stories by this author of "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "The Same Door" is a collection of John Updike stories that appeared originally in this magazine The New Yorker |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Her 1940 novel "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" is a parable on Fascism (Carson) McCullers |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Henry Fleming, hero of a classic 1895 novel, is a grandfather in this author's 1896 story "The Veteran" (Stephen) Crane |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel the father of Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy is an Army chaplain in the Civil War Little Women |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this story a New Englander awakens to find himself at Camelot in 528 A.D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: After years of writing short stories, J.D. Salinger published this first novel The Catcher in the Rye |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His "The Long Valley" contained the short stories "Saint Katy the Virgin" & "The Red Pony" (John) Steinbeck |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This Emerson essay states, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" Self Reliance |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Lillian Hellman was the model for Nora Charles in his novel "The Thin Man" (Dashiell) Hammett |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His 1949 book "Knight's Gambit" is a collection of interrelated detective stories set in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This native of Salem, Mass. published his novel "Fanshawe" anonymously & never admitted that he wrote it Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Nick Adams is the hero of many of the stories in his 1925 collection "In Our Time" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Betty Smith novel tells us, "The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character falls asleep in the Catskills while hunting with his dog, Wolf Rip Van Winkle |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: After the death of St. Clare, Uncle Tom is sold to this drunken planter Simon Legree |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): This Hawthorne heroine has a beautiful, mischievous daughter named Pearl Hester Prynne |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Deerslayer Natty Bumppo received this nickname because of his long deerskin leggings Leatherstocking |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this essay Thoreau asserted, "that government is best which governs not at all" "Civil Disobedience" |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | LITERATURE $800: This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a nonfiction work entitled "Tragic America" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Among the scary stories he published in 1843 were "The Tell-Tale Heart" & "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Israel Potter" is an 1855 novel of the American Revolution by this author of "Moby-Dick" Herman Melville |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The high-living hero & heroine of his 1922 novel "The Beautiful and Damned" resemble him & his wife Zelda F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): He described his 1966 book "In Cold Blood" as a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: American poet who published "Dust of Snow" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1923 Robert Frost |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His 1938 collection "The Long Valley" includes one of his most famous stories, "The Red Pony" (John) Steinbeck |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Edgar Lee Masters' most famous book, it's a series of epitaphs written in free verse Spoon River Anthology |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1st Theodore Dreiser novel shocked the publisher's wife, who kept it from wide distribution Sister Carrie |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1957 he published "The Town", the second novel in his Snopes trilogy Faulkner |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams considered her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" a masterpiece Carson McCullers |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His novel "The Prairie" is set in 1804; Natty Bumppo is in his 80s James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Drums along the Mohawk" tells the story of this war from a farmer's point of view the American Revolution |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Adagio Dancer", a brief biography of Rudolph Valentino, appears in this John Dos Passos trilogy the U.S.A. Trilogy |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse" while living in a Massachusetts home called the Old Manse (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,700 (Daily Double): Bess is the heroine of this 1925 DuBose Heyward novel, but she isn't mentioned in the title Porgy |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | LITERATURE $1000: One of Shirley Jackson's best-known works is this story about a deadly ritual in a small American town "The Lottery" |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | WORLD LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In 1883 this American expatriate adapted his own novel "Daisy Miller" as a play Henry James |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He wrote good later novels like "Cass Timberlane", but earlier ones like "Babbitt" are more famous Sinclair Lewis |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The book "Bear, Man, and God" contains "Seven Approaches to" his famous story "The Bear" Faulkner |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This author of "All the King's Men" edited a 1971 book about John Greenleaf Whittier's poetry Robert Penn Warren |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Ice Palace", her last novel, was published in 1958, 10 years before her death Edna Ferber |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Bessie Rice bribes 16-year-old Dude Lester to marry her in this Erskine Caldwell novel Tobacco Road |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Steinbeck novel was based on articles on migrant workers he had written for the San Francisco News The Grapes of Wrath |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Booth Tarkington's story about this "Magnificent" family won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919 the Ambersons |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "The Scarlet Letter", Arthur Dimmesdale is her fellow sinner & fellow sufferer Hester Prynne |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this tale Washington Irving wrote, "There was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Jack London wolf dog's masters include Gray Beaver & Beauty Smith White Fang |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1853 she wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" to defend the accuracy of the earlier book Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this Hemingway novelette, Santiago was once an arm wrestler called "El Campeon" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Background for Dr. Kennicott in his 1920 novel "Main Street" was supplied by his father, a country doctor Sinclair Lewis |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His "The Great Stone Face" appeared in the 1851 collection "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This book by Sherwood Anderson tells 21 tales about the "grotesque" inhabitants of an Ohio town Winesburg, Ohio |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In his "For Whom the Bell Tolls", American Robert Jordan enters the Spanish Civil War on the Loyalist side Hemingway |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In "The Concord Hymn", Emerson wrote, "Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired" this "the shot heard round the world" |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "A Tramp Abroad", this author describes a walking tour through the Alps & the Black Forest Mark Twain |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Melville novelette, a young sailor is hanged for killing a jealous petty officer named Claggart Billy Budd |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,600 (Daily Double): Sequentially, "The Deerslayer" is the first of these tales, but it was the last written The Leatherstocking Tales |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This American known for his humorous poems wrote a 1951 children's book called "Parents Keep Out" Ogden Nash |
| #2153, aired 1994-01-05 | LITERATURE $600: Theodore Dreiser based this 1925 novel on a real-life murder case An American Tragedy |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: The setting for this Joseph Heller novel is the imaginary island of Pianosa Catch-22 |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", fireman Guy Montag's job is to do this to burn books |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: She referred to the many American writers in Paris after World War I as the "Lost Generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Sinclair Lewis title character studied medicine at the University of Winnemac Arrowsmith |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): He's the only man to survive the sinking of the Pequod by Moby Dick Ishmael |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This J.D. Salinger novel covers two days in the life of Holden Caufield Catcher in the Rye |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: At the end of "Moby Dick", this ship sinks & Ishmael is the lone survivor Pequod |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In a 1947 novelette, he told of a great pearl, how it was found & how it was lost again John Steinbeck |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part of this poet's autobiography was reprinted in 1955 as "Prairie-Town Boy" Carl Sandburg |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1936 Ernest Hemingway |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Characters in this Mark Twain novel include "The Dauphin", the Widow Douglas & Jim, a runaway slave Huck Finn |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this tale a sleepy Dutch colonist meets the spirits of Henry Hudson's crew playing ninepins Rip Van Winkle |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: While an editor of Graham's Magazine, he wrote "The Masque of the Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Jack London title animal is the offspring of a wolf & an Indian wolfdog White Fang |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1974 James A. Michener novel tells the story of a fictional Colorado town through the years Centennial |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Civil War historian Shelby Foote's favorite Civil War novel is this one by Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for", he wrote in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Hemingway |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Sinclair Lewis title character seduces a female evangelist named Sharon Falconer Elmer Gantry |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The narrator of a Poe story describes this title structure as a "mansion of gloom" the House of Usher |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His books "Daisy Miller" & "The Portrait of a Lady" are both about young American ladies in Europe (Henry) James |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Hemingway novella about an aging fisherman was based on a true story he'd heard from his Cuban boatman The Old Man and the Sea |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Among the pseudonyms this author used were Diedrich Knickerbocker & Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this Poe short story, a watch ticking beneath a floorboard drives a man to confess to murder "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1952 novel by John Steinbeck is based on the biblical story of Cain & Abel East of Eden |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In a story by Bret Harte, John Oakhurst & Mother Shipton are among "The Outcasts of" this mining town Poker Flat |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: One of the first American editions of this British book was titled "Schooldays at Rugby" Tom Brown's Schooldays |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This novel by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 some of his Nick Adams stories were published for the first time Hemingway |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Sons", about the children of Wang Lung, was a sequel to this Pearl Buck novel The Good Earth |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: The title of his 1847 novel "Omoo" is Polynesian for a person who wanders from island to island Melville |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Trying to repeat the success of his earlier anthology, he published "The New Spoon River" in 1924 (Edgar Lee) Masters |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Ernest Hemingway once claimed that "All modern American literature comes from this "Tom Sawyer" sequel" Huckleberry Finn |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He received only $10 for the first publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1985 Larry McMurtry made the bestseller list with this epic novel about the West Lonesome Dove |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Laura Ingalls Wilder was well into her 60s when she began this series of books about her early life Little House on the Prairie |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Set in the Reconstruction era, "Beloved" won this black American author a 1988 Pulitzer Prize Toni Morrison |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling novel "Andersonville" is set during this war the Civil War |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willie Stark in "All the King's Men" is said to have been modeled on this Louisiana governor Huey Long |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1929 novel about the Compson family is often considered WIlliam Faulkner's finest book The Sound and the Fury |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1952 work about baseball player Roy Hobbs was Bernard Malamud's first novel The Natural |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His 1853 short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street" Herman Melville |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: The same year his "The Last of the Mohicans" was published, he was named U.S. Consul at Lyon, France James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Thoreau work is sub-titled "Life in the Woods" "Walden" |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His first novel, "Typee", in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific Herman Melville |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He wrote "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" & "A History of New York" Washington Irving |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work, the former residents of a Midwestern town speak from their graves "Spoon River Anthology" |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | POETS $400: Gabriela Mistral of Chile was the 1st Latin American woman to win this prize for literature the Nobel Prize |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a Congregationalist minister in Litchfield, Connecticut Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This first & only novel by Harper Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The conceited architect in this Ayn Rand novel is said to be based on Frank Lloyd Wright The Fountainhead |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This William Shirer book is subtitled "A History of Nazi Germany" The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "I Sing the Body Electric" he said, "These are not the parts & poems of the body only, but of the soul" Walt Whitman |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1851 this Herman Melville classic was first published in England as "The Whale" Moby-Dick |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "White Fang", about a dog who is tamed, was Jack London's follow-up to this novel Call of the Wild |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Huck Finn is first mentioned in this, Mark Twain's memoir of his riverboat days Life on the Mississippi |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In a short novel by John Steinbeck, a fisherman named Kino finds this title object a pearl |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1922 Sinclair Lewis published this novel about an average American businessman Babbitt |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Thomas Nelson Page's novel "Red Rock" depicts the effects of this war on 2 old Southern families the Civil War |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This poet's collection, "Sequel to Drum Taps", contained "O Captain! My Captain!" Whitman |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: First name shared by title characters Brand & Frome Ethan |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Edward Albee dramatized her story "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" in 1963 Carson McCullers |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Like the hero of his novel "An American Tragedy", this author grew up in poverty (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | LITERATURE $800: While minister to France in 1865-66, John Bigelow discovered this American patriot's "Autobiography" Benjamin Franklin |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | LITERATURE $1000: Historian who won her second Pulitzer for "Stilwell and the American Experience in China" Barbara Tuchman |
| #1590, aired 1991-06-28 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: M. Atwood's 1972 work "Survival" is a study of the literature of this N. American country Canada |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | AUTHORS' NICKNAMES $800: This Knickerbocker earned himself the nickname "The Father of American Literature" Washington Irving |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Though it takes place first, "The Deerslayer" was the last published of his "Leatherstocking Tales" Cooper |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This 1939 James Thurber short story tells the fantasies of a mild man who imagines himself a hero The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Max Brand is best known for writing "Destry Rides Again" & a series of novels about this physician Doctor Kildare |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Herman Melville book is subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" Typee |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This N. Hawthorne collection contains the stories "The Gray Champion" & "The Celestial Railroad" Twice-Told Tales |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Raintree County" opens in this Hoosier State in 1892 & then flashes back to pre-Civil War days Indiana |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Mark Twain novel that feature Merlin & Morgan le Fay A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His novel "The Pathfinder" is subtitles "The Inland Sea" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "The Natural", his first novel, was first published in 1952 Bernard Malamud |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): This collection of short stories about life in a small town was S. Anderson's 4th book Winesburg, Ohio |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | THIRD WORLD $400: Octavio Paz, a poet from this North American country, won the 1990 Nobel Literature Prize Mexico |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: “Men in White”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934, is a Sidney Kingsley play about this profession medicine |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote “The Bells” & “Annabel Lee” at his farmhouse in the Bronx Edgar Allan Poe |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1976 this Canadian-born author of “Herzog” won the Nobel literature prize Saul Bellow |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Baltimore writer who coined the term “booboisie” & said Hoover was "a fat Coolidge" H.L. Mencken |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: She published “The Member of the Wedding” as a novel in 1946, then rewrote it as a play in 1950 Carson McCullers |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He was born in Salinas, California, the setting for his "East of Eden" John Steinbeck |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Her 2nd antislavery book was 1856's "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He was writing about his ancestors Miles Standish & Priscilla Mullins in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" Longfellow |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Greed & lust for power release vicious passions in a Southern family in her play "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, & Frederik Pohl are best known for writing in this genre science fiction |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: The Academic American Ency. calls this Dante work the greatest poem of the Middle Ages the Divine Comedy |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Author of 1987's "The Black Dahlia", he calls himself "the demon dog of American literature" James Ellroy |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "The House of the Seven Gables" is set in this New England town, about 150 years after the Witch Trials Salem, Massachusetts |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The Mystery of Marie Roget" followed this Poe story, both featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This first "Mike Hammer" novel is Mickey Spillane's top-selling paperback book I, the Jury |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1920 Sinclair Lewis novel told the story of Carol Milford & Dr. Will Kennicott "Main Street" |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Many consider his 1952 book "Invisible Man" the greatest post-war novel about black life in the U.S. Ralph Ellison |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | LITERATURE $400: Last name of American poets Laura, William Rose & Stephen Vincent Benét |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. were among the authors known collectively as this city's Brahmins Boston |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The title of this Erskine Caldwell novel refers to land whose income is supposed to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Hemingway's story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is set on this continent Africa |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This American who moved to Europe wrote about Americans in Europe in "The Ambassadors" (Henry) James |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Her 1927 novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is based on the lives of 2 French clerics (Willa) Cather |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | LITERATURE $200: "The Saga of King Olaf" is one of this American poet's "Tales of a Wayside Inn" Longfellow |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Drums of Jeopardy" author Harold MacGrath came up with "Perils" for this film heroine Pauline |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Adjective describing Lloyd Douglas' "Obsession" or Booth Tarkington's "Ambersons" Magnificent |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: John O'Hara's 1940 collection of short stories about a singing heel that became a hit musical Pal Joey |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Arrowsmith was a doctor, & this Sinclair Lewis title character was a realtor Babbitt |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Willa Cather wrote the novel "O Pioneers!", & he wrote the poem "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Walt Whitman |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In “Moby Dick” the narrator begins by telling the reader to call him this Ismael |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: C. Auguste Dupin is an amateur detective who appears in 3 of his short stories (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Nick Adams is the protagonist in many of the short stories in this author's “In Our Time” Hemingway |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Edith Wharton's tragic tale of a New England farmer who falls in love with his wife's cousin Mattie Ethan Frome |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Father of Pearl! He's the minister in Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter” (Arthur) Dimmesdale |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This author of the Perry Mason books was a lawyer himself Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Flowering Judas" & "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" are collections of short stories by this author Katherine Anne Porter |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days", JFK's story (Arthur) Schlesinger |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He won the National Book Award in 1956 fro his novel "Ten North Frederick" John O'Hara |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Her horror story "The Lottery", first published in the New Yorker, is now widely anthologized Shirley Jackson |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | AUTHORS $500 (Daily Double): In 1936 he became the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $500: Nationality of the woman who created Hans Brinker American (Mary Mapes Dodge) |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | "A" IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown in New York State An American Tragedy |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He went to the Klondike in 1897 & wrote magazine stories later collected in "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Eugene Gant is the name under which he appears in his autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel" Thomas Wolfe |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: She won a Pulitzer Prize for "So Big" but not for "Cimarron" Edna Ferber |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the name Washington Irving used for the area that's now Tarrytown. N.Y. Sleepy Hollow |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: A famous sea route, or Kenneth Roberts' novel of attempts to find an alternative overland route the Northwest Passage |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This clergyman who wrote "The Short History of New-England" in 1694 was the son of Increase Mather Cotton Mather |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "Cadillac Jack" & "Lonesome Dove" after "Terms of Endearment" Larry McMurtry |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name Herman Melville |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel about the adventures of Dean Moriarty & friends as they travel the U.S. On the Road |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: It was called "A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" before it was called this "Song of Myself" |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: "Jo's Boys" was her last novel in the saga of Jo March (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Author of "Space", "Chesapeake" & "Hawaii" Michener |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: "Gone with the Wind" was her only published novel (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the novel "The Enormous Room" & many poems such as "anyone lived in a pretty how town" E. E. Cummings |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: In a Stephen Vincent Benét short story this New Englander saves Jabez Stone from "Mr. Scratch" Daniel Webster |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | LITERATURE $400: Walter Edmonds' "Drums Along the Mohawk" is set during this war the American Revolution |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: Philip Nolan, who died on board the U.S. Corvette Levant, was called this by Edward Everett Hale "The Man Without a Country" |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1981 John Kennedy Toole was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this novel A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: "Other Voices, Other Rooms" was this author's 1st published novel Truman Capote |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: She based Little Lord Fauntleroy's costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Best known for "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight", he published at least a dozen volumes of poems Vachel Lindsay |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Among the books set on this river were "Mike FInk", "Tammy Out of Time" & "Huckleberry Finn" the Mississippi |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The full title of his 1947 book was "Tales of the South Pacific" James Michener |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Truman Capote's nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood" was written in an event that took place in this state Kansas |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: After a stint as a Hollywood screenwriter, Nathanael West wrote this Hollywood novel, his last The Day of the Locust |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Carson McCullers novel about a motherless 12-year-old & her thoughts on her brother's marriage Member of the Wedding |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He lost a N.Y. mayoral race but won the Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song" Norman Mailer |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this 1955 novel, Humbert Humbert marries widow Charlotte Haze just to be near her Nymphet daughter "Lolita" |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Jack London's "Call of the Wild" featured the exploits of this sledge dog & his master, John Thornton Buck |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Name of James Fenimore Cooper character introduced in "The Pioneers"; he appeared in 4 additional books Natty Bumppo |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Frederick Faust wrote "Destry Rides Again" & the "Dr. Kildare" series of books under this pseudonym Max Brand |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1605 Cervantes wrote about Don Quixote, & in 1969 Mario Puzo wrote about this Don Corleone |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Katherine Anne Porter got this title & plot device from a 1494 Sebastian Brant work Ship of Fools |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: American novelist & short story writer who created Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Title hero of Nathanael West's 1933 tale who ends up murdered by one of his correspondents Miss Lonelyhearts |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio Washington Irving |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | LITERATURE $800: His 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" was based on a real life murder case Theodore Dreiser |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem about this "Little Orphant" Annie |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His trip to the Arctic on a seal hunting ship provided background for "The Sea Wolf" Jack London |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: For Tom Braden "Eight is Enough", but in Frank Gilbreth's family, kids were "cheaper" this way by the dozen |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A Sinclair Lewis novel about the medical profession, it's a homophone of a heavy metal band Arrowsmith |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The 1985 movie "Smooth Talk" was based on her short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Completes the title of Walter D. Edmonds' 1936 historical novel, "Drums Along the ..." Mohawk |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: William Sydney Porter probably used this pseudonym to conceal the fact that he was in jail O. Henry |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Book in which Jody learns, when he kills his fawn, that "Love's got nothing to do with corn" The Yearling |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered" was 1 of this author's favorite quotes Truman Capote |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): In "The Sun Also Rises" Hemingway quotes this author as saying, "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Ask not which Hemingway book outsold all others; it was this novel whose hero was Robert Jordan For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: If his parents hadn't had 14 children, we couldn't read "The Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "The victor belongs to the spoils," he claimed in "The Beautiful & the Damned" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This author of "The Octopus" was the reader at Doubleday who accepted Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" Frank Norris |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | THE ADAMS FAMILY $1000: "The Education of" this "Adams" is considered a classic in American literature Henry Adams |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: An ex-football player who enters the ministry is the subject of this Sinclair Lewis novel Elmer Gantry |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: James M. Cain's first novel; think letters & bells for a clue to its title The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: J.P. Marquand, who won a Pulitzer for "The Late George Apley," created this Japanese spy/detective Mr. Moto |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Among his many books for boys are the Ragged Dick & Tattered Tom series Horatio Alger |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Richard Henry Dana's 1840 classic based on a voyage he took around Cape Horn Two Years Before the Mast |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In literature it's the American monetary equivalent to the British penny dreadful dime novel |
| #911, aired 1988-07-18 | LITERATURE $800: In this novel, an idealistic American teacher, Robert Jordan, fights in the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bells Tolls |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Hemingway claimed all modern American literature comes from this book by Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A grandnephew of Nathan Hale, Edward E. Hale wrote the story of Philip Nolan, the man without 1 of these a country |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot The Sound and the Fury |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: It was Tom Sawyer's testimony that got Muff Potter acquitted of this charge murder |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: James F. Cooper character also known as Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, Long Rifle & Deerslayer Natty Bumppo |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Wm. Dean Howell's novel, the title character "rise"s morally while falling financially The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Color of Henry James' "Bowl" or Clifford Odets' "Boy" Golden |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Wild Cargo" was Frank Buck's sequel to this popular book Bring 'Em Back Alive |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was based on this 1905 book by Thomas Dixon The Clansman |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Paul Fatout's biography of this writer was called, "The Devil's Lexicographer" Ambrose Bierce |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He came up with "A Guide to Confident Living" before his "The Power of Positive Thinking" Norman Vincent Peale |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Many consider this, Norman Mailer's 1st published novel, the best war novel to emerge from WWII The Naked and the Dead |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1920, Chas. Nordhoff & James Hall moved to Tahiti where they wrote this novel about a real event Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Giants in the Earth", a story of pioneer life in the Dakotas, was originally written in this language Norwegian |
| #614, aired 1987-04-16 | LITERATURE $200: This American epic was 1st published in Great Britain, but under the title, "The Whale" Moby-Dick |
| #571, aired 1987-02-16 | LITERATURE $800: 19th c. feminist Catharine Beecher wrote "The American Woman's Home" with this more famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: He wrote that "persons attempting to find a plot" in "Huck Finn" "will be shot" Mark Twain |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This author's son Jack wrote "Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With & Without Papa." Ernest Hemingway |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: So no one would read it, this Atlanta belle had her novella about interracial lovers destroyed Margaret Mitchell |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Encyclopedia Americana calls him the "1st great dramatist" in American literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: This short novel, Melville's last, wasn't published until 33 years after his death Billy Budd |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22" Joseph Heller |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Little Women" is set during this war the Civil War |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Author of "A Heap o' Livin'", listed in Avenel's companion to American Literature as "Famous Bad Poet" Edgar Guest |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: 1st American writer to achieve internat'l fame, he spent nearly 20 years writing, not sleeping, in Europe Washington Irving |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: 1976 Nobel prize-winner who wrote "Herzog" as an auto-biographical novel Saul Bellow |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In his "Sketches from Switzerland" he told of Arnold von Winkelried, a national hero, not a Mohican James Fenimore Cooper |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: T. Dreiser novel that went undistributed for 12 years since publisher's wife opposed its amoral heroine Sister Carrie |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This poet's epitaph reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world" Robert Frost |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Walden Pond rustic who advised us to "simplify, simplify" Thoreau |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Clarence Day followed "Life With Father" with this look at the distaff side Life With Mother |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Howard Hawks called it a "piece of junk", but got Hemingway to help adapt it for Bogey & Bacall To Have And Have Not |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Called "greatest intellectual in land", this prolific Puritan penned 459 books, none of them "fleecy" Cotton Mather |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Edgar Allan Poe character considered by many to be 1st modern detective C. Auguste Dupin |
| #351, aired 1986-01-13 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: In literature, it's described both a "duckling" & an "American" ugly |
| #285, aired 1985-10-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Angered by American piracies of his novels, he put down the U.S. in his “Martin Chuzzlewit” Charles Dickens |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Cheek color of Whittier's "Barefoot Boy" tan |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The Crucible", his 1953 play about Salem witchcraft trials drew a parallel to McCarthyism (Arthur) Miller |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His lovesick narrator begins, "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins" Nabokov |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Melville title sailor who personifies innocence Billy Budd |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Sport defined by Hemingway as "Death in the Afternoon" bullfighting |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1843, the Merriams took over the rights to his dictionary Webster |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her "Giant" grew into an epic movie Edna Ferber |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Death Comes for" him Willa Cather's classic the Archbishop |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Novelist & poet who went "Trout Fishing in America" (Richard) Brautigan |
| #133, aired 1985-03-13 | LITERATURE $200: American poet who spent his life adding to, not cutting his "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Under a spreading chestnut tree" it stands the village smithy |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: First name of authors Pene du Bois & Saroyan William |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Number of years Richard Henry Dana spent "Before the Mast" Two |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He went "On the Road" to find the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Dusk--of a summer night" is the first paragraph of his "An American Tragedy" Theodore Dreiser |
| #94, aired 1985-01-17 | LITERATURE $600: In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the 1st American author to win it the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: Melville's white whale tale Moby-Dick |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Lincoln called it "the book that caused the big war" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $300: Steinbeck novel dubbed "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Depression" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He gave Hester a scarlet "A" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Great-grand nephew of Francis Scott Key, he was the voice of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald |
