| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: Paul Gallico began as a sportswriter but is remembered for the "Adventure" of this capsized ocean liner The Poseidon Adventure |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This 19th century author of coming of age novels was featured on a 1940 postage stamp Louisa May Alcott |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1200: Including "The New Centurions", Joseph Wambaugh has written many bestsellers about folks in this profession police |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: This Nobel Prize winner's novel "Jazz" is her meditation on life in Harlem in the 1920s Toni Morrison |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $2000: This Nathaniel West novel was a satiric take on the "buggy" nature of 1930s Hollywood Day of the Locust |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: Tired of whaling, he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in July 1842 & lived there for a month (Herman) Melville |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In 1961 the ban on his "Tropic of Cancer" was lifted in the U.S., & soon many of his other banned books were issued (Henry) Miller |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $600: In the early 1920s he briefly served as a scoutmaster for an Oxford, Mississippi Boy Scout troop Faulkner |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This author of "The Bone Bed" once worked as a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond (Patricia) Cornwell |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1000: This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, & "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd Donna Tartt |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: Having to support 5 kids prompted him to write something to bring in some bucks--"The Godfather" (Mario) Puzo |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: In 1906 & 1907 this "Main Street" author worked as a janitor at Upton Sinclair's socialist commune Helicon Hall Sinclair Lewis |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1200: Harper Lee portrayed this author, a childhood friend, as Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Truman) Capote |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: This ex-minister's first novel for boys, "Ragged Dick", told the story of a poor shoeshine boy who rises to wealth Horatio Alger |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $2000: He found success with "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", but less when he co-scripted "John Carter" Michael Chabon |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: He wrote much of "The Great Gatsby" in France & then revised it while he wintered in Rome (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: She wrote a piece of Jane Austen fan fiction called "The Beautiful Cassandra", inspiring her pen name Cassandra Clare |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1200: "I never get scared", says this author of the "Fear Street" books R.L. Stine |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: Ernest Gaines made high school reading lists with this novel about a man awaiting execution A Lesson Before Dying |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $2000: This author called his 1966 masterpiece "In Cold Blood" a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: While collecting material for "The Fountainhead", she worked without pay as a typist for a New York City architect (Ayn) Rand |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In 1992 this "Cider House Rules" author was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame John Irving |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $600: John Ehle is the author of "The Winter People", which became a film, & the father of this woman, who went into film Jennifer Ehle |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: Having served on a mine-sweeper during World War II, he wrote about one in "The Caine Mutiny" Herman Wouk |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1000: In the 1950s he won $10,000 on "You Bet Your Life", allowing him time off to write a novel... "The Exorcist" William Peter Blatty |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $400: While writing "Little Women", she served as editor of a juvenile magazine, "Merry's Museum" Alcott |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $800: In the 1880s her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, where her father opened an insurance & real estate office Willa Cather |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $1200: With money earned from "The Yearling", she bought a beach cottage just south of St. Augustine, Florida Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $1600: The author of "A Stranger is Watching", she's been called "America's Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $2000: Highly successful under her real name, as J.D. Robb she's written over 25 books about N.Y. Police Lt. Eve Dallas Nora Roberts |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: Emerson was a pallbearer for this "Scarlet Letter" author Hawthorne |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: He wrote "Carrie" while teaching high school English at Hampden Academy in Maine (Stephen) King |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $600: He co-wrote "Sea of Cortez" with marine biologist Edward Ricketts, the model for Doc in "Cannery Row" (John) Steinbeck |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This author of "The Good Earth" wrote 5 books using the pseudonym John Sedges Pearl Buck |
| #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 |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $100: In 1896, 20 years after the original work, he wrote "Tom Sawyer, Detective" Mark Twain |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: In the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", he wrote of his experiences as a customs official Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $300: In 1932 his wife Zelda published the novel "Save Me the Waltz", her version of their life together F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In the 1930s this "Main Street" author served as book editor for Newsweek Sinclair Lewis |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $500: Shortly after the release of "Sister Carrie", his publisher withdrew it due to the book's "amorality" Theodore Dreiser |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: A "Giant" among American women novelists, she wrote the play "Stage Door" with George S. Kaufman Edna Ferber |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $100: As a teenager he wrote copy for his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal Mark Twain |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: When this author of "The Scarlet Letter" began getting published, he added a "W" to his last name (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $300: This "Color Purple" author was once an editor of Ms. Magazine Alice Walker |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In 1969 his "Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters" was published posthumously Steinbeck |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $500: His 1980 work "Of Women and Their Elegance" is an imaginary memoir by Marilyn Monroe Norman Mailer |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel "The Women of" this "Place" won an American Book Award & became a TV miniseries Brewster Place |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: Ole E. Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth" is set on the American frontier but was 1st published in this language Norwegian |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: From 1859 to 1861 he served as a licensed riverboat pilot on the Mississippi Mark Twain |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: This author discussed the horror genre in his 1981 work "Danse Macabre" Stephen King |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $600: This author of "The Good Earth" wrote 5 novels under the pseudonym John Sedges Pearl Buck |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: Arthur Mizener's 1951 work "The Far Side of Paradise" is a biography of this author F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1846 he was appointed surveyor of customs in his native Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: Bruce Gold is the title character of this Joseph Heller satire on American values Good as Gold |
