| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1896, this author was named for his distant cousin who penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" Albany |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $800: Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871, wrote naturally & died Dec. 28, 1945, "An American Tragedy" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Born in Oklahoma City in 1914, he was named for the Transcendentalist author of "Self-Reliance" Ralph Ellison |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: He was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 & soon realized he wasn't in Kansas anymore (Frank) Baum |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: In 1975 an Oklahoma City library was named for this "Invisible Man" author who was born in the city in 1914 Ralph Ellison |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body" Stephen Vincent Benet |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: Claude Brown's best-known work is the 1965 autobiography "Manchild in" this place the Promised Land |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $100: Born of French-Canadian parents, this "On the Road" author spoke only French until he was 6 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | AUTHORS $200: This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi Mark Twain |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Claude McKay was a leading figure in this NYC area's "Renaissance" even though he was born in Jamaica Harlem |
| #1518, aired 1991-03-20 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: The author of "Miss Lonelyhearts", he was born Nathan Weinstein in 1903 Nathanael West |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "The Painted Bird", published in 1965, was this Polish-born American author's 1st novel Jerzy Kosinski |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: In "Reunion: A Memoir", this husband of Jane Fonda calls himself "a 'born-again middle American" Tom Hayden |
| #857, aired 1988-05-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $700 (Daily Double): Born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala., daughter of a Confederate officer, her autobiography inspired millions Helen Keller |
| #750, aired 1987-12-04 | AUTHORS $800: Though born & raised in Canada this author of "Herzog" is regarded as an American author Saul Bellow |
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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