#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 |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | AMERICAN LAW $1200: The Supreme Court says, "The law has long forbidden routine use" of these hand &/or leg chains on defendants shackles |
#8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This 3-named author of "Them" & "We Were the Mulvaneys" is a professor of creative writing, emerita at Princeton Joyce Carol Oates |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $400: This word for pretending to be white is the title of a 1929 novel & the subject of the 2020 bestseller "The Vanishing Half" passing |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $800: "Singin' and Swingin and "Gettin' Merry like Christmas" is the title of her third autobiography Maya Angelou |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1200: He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1600: A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula" Morrison |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $2000: The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, this Chicago poet was featured on a 2012 stamp Gwendolyn Brooks |
#8236, aired 2020-09-14 | PRESIDENT & ACCOUNTED FOR $400: Writing about immigration in 2019, Mexico's President López Obrador said this American landmark "is not an empty symbol" the Statue of Liberty |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $400: He wrote pamphlets like "American Crisis" & "Common Sense" in support of the American Revolution Paine |
#8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $600: He drew from his own background when writing "The Prince of Tides" Pat Conroy |
#7535, aired 2017-05-19 | NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $800: This Native American leader is depicted here along with a Cherokee writing system he devised Sequoyah |
#7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AMERICAN POETS $2000: "Omaha" is a poem in the 1920 collection "Smoke and Steel" by this man better known for writing about Chicago (Carl) Sandburg |
#7085, aired 2015-06-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $1200: Not Rachel Lindsay but this man was famous in the early 1900s for writing & reciting "The Congo" Vachel Lindsay |
#6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: 1944:
Carleton Mabee, writing about this "American Leonardo", master of the dot & dash Morse |
#6818, aired 2014-04-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Her indignation over the Fugitive Slave Act led to the writing of her most famous novel, published in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
#6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NATIONALITEASE $800: A lot of wall writing right here in the United States? American graffiti |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children the Newbery |
#6679, aired 2013-10-03 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $1,000 (Daily Double): "A Winter Walk" & "Slavery in Massachusetts" are essays by this 19th century American Thoreau |
#6346, aired 2012-04-02 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $1200: Magic moments for this composer & Hal David included writing the 1958 Perry Como hit "Magic Moments" (Burt) Bacharach |
#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 |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | CONTEMPORARIES $400: In the 1850s, while Gregor Mendel was playing with his peas, this American woman was writing the first of her 1,775 poems (Emily) Dickinson |
#5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $800: Because he was "drinking a case of 16-ounce tallboys a night", he said, he barely remembers writing "Cujo" Stephen King |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORDS ABOUT WRITING $2,000 (Daily Double): In his 1954 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this American called "writing, at its best... a lonely life" Ernest Hemingway |
#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 |
#4472, aired 2004-02-03 | AMERICAN SONGS $1600: Undistinguished congressman Joseph Hopkinson is remembered for writing "Hail" this, now the VP's intro music Columbia |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $400: In Jan. 1851 he had his first known piece published: "A Gallant Fireman", in Hannibal's Western Union Mark Twain |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $800: Hello! He wrote "Farewell, My Lovely" & "The Long Goodbye" Raymond Chandler |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $1200: "Stupid White Man" is a 2002 rant from this "TV Nation" host Michael Moore |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $1600: This 1935 novel by Horace McCoy is a tale of murder & marathon dancing "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $2000: Old Ben is this title character of a Faulkner novelette "The Bear" |
#3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Pen/Faulkner Award honors this category of American writing fiction |
#3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $200: She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved" Toni Morrison |
#3139, aired 1998-04-02 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $300: When he began writing "Catch-22", he was an advertising writer for TIME magazine Joseph Heller |
#2992, aired 1997-09-09 | CARRYING ON $600: She wrote her & her mother's speeches for the American Comedy Awards & was on the 1997 Oscar writing staff Carrie Fisher |
#2659, aired 1996-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1963 this Black leader began writing his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on the margin of a newspaper Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#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 |
#2468, aired 1995-05-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: She never finished the Jazz Age novel she started writing before "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell |
#2027, aired 1993-06-01 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Lord Byron contributed to this American trailblazer's fame by writing about him in "Don Juan" Daniel Boone |
#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 |
#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 $2,000 (Daily Double): Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, & Frederik Pohl are best known for writing in this genre science fiction |
#1432, aired 1990-11-20 | AWARDS $1000: The American Library Association awards the Newbery Medal for writing children's books & this medal for illustration the Caldecott Medal |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Disgusted with novels of his time, this "Deerslayer" author took up writing to show he could do better James Fenimore Cooper |
#869, aired 1988-05-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Claiming it wasn't in his vein, Hawthorne turned over the task of writing "Evangeline" to him Longfellow |
#482, aired 1986-10-14 | AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: Having helped incite the revolution by writing "Common Sense", he later went back to England Thomas Paine |
#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 |
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