| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $800: A shout-out from "Best American" these literary works made Joyce Carol Oates abandon her Rice University PhD in favor of writing short stories |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $1600: This African American who sometimes lived in France wrote a 1965 collection called "Going to Meet the Man" James Baldwin |
| #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 |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Pen/Faulkner Award honors this category of American writing fiction |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | AMERICAN SHORT STORIES $200: In a Poe story, Madame L'Espanaye & her daughter were murder victims on this street Rue Morgue |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | AMERICAN SHORT STORIES $400: Jody named this Steinbeck title creature Gabilan Mountains "The Red Pony" |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | AMERICAN SHORT STORIES $600: A Frank R. Stockton tale ends with "Which came out of the opened door, the lady, or" this The tiger |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | AMERICAN SHORT STORIES $1000: Hazel Morse was her "Big Blonde" Dorothy Parker |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | AMERICAN SHORT STORIES $1,400 (Daily Double): The Edward Everett Hale title character known as this "Died on board U.S. Corvette Levant" "The Man Without a Country" (Philip Nolan) |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $500: The Gibbsville of many of his novels & short stories is based on his own hometown of Pottsville, Penn. John O'Hara |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: He wrote 4 volumes of short stories including "Tales of the Jazz Age" & "All the Sad Young Men" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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