| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking Dublin |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $200: Several of this author's works like "A Time to Kill" take place in Clanton, Mississippi John Grisham |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He wrote, "'It is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother... you are pure man... the offspring of highly bred... parents' " Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $600: The name of this "Wicked" character comes from the initials of "The Wizard of Oz" author Elphaba |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BABY TALK $800: TV host & author Art Linkletter was one of these, a baby abandoned by its parents & adopted & raised by others a foundling |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart Tim O'Brien |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit Quo Vadis |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Chilean author of "The Savage Detectives" has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003 Roberto Bolaño |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 4-LETTER HOMOPHONES $800: To quote an author
&
the location of a proposed building cite/site |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | ON THE NOSE $2000: In "The Nose" by this 19th century Russian author, a civil servant chases his schnozz around St. Petersburg Gogol |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $400: We'll keep you in suspense... Jack Ryan Jr. is on the campus in "The Teeth of the Tiger" from this author Clancy |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This author born Lula Carson Smith earned fame at the keyboard as a novelist under this married name Carson McCullers |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Max Brod edited this author's letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him Kafka |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $1600: Loving a good sequel like the rest of us, this author completed "The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2" around 1684 Bunyan |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $400: In 1861, 3 years after the publication of this classic medical textbook, its author died of smallpox at age 34 Gray's Anatomy |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $400: This author & Pulitzer Prize winner's best-known work is subtitled "The Saga of An American Family" Alex Haley |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NEW U.S. STAMPS FOR 2024 $2000: This Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Adventures of Augie March" wears a jaunty hat on his 2024 stamp Bellow |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $1600: The screenwriting credits on the "Godfather" films are shared by these 2 men, the director & the original book's author Coppola & Puzo |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $400: Author Ira Levin claimed credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow as the lead in this 1968 adaptation of his horror novel Rosemary's Baby |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $2000: "The Turning" is a 2020 film adaptation of an 1898 supernatural story by this author Henry James |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 2023 this author of "Jazz" & "The Bluest Eye" was honored on a U.S. stamp, unveiled at Princeton, where she taught Morrison |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: She's the author of "The Kitchen God's Wife" & "The Bonesetter's Daughter" Amy Tan |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Early in his career, this author of "The Corrections" earned extra money working in a seismology lab at Harvard Franzen |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This alliterative author of Western novels wrote several Hopalong Cassidy books under the pen name Tex Burns Louis L'Amour |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $1000: This British author kept 2 initials & a 5-letter last name as N.W. Clerk to write "A Grief Observed" about his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $800: This "Invisible Man" author made his first appearance March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City Ellison |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The unexpected death of a small town council member is a mystery at the heart of "The Casual Vacancy" by this author J.K. Rowling |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Author Ralph Ellison was a music student at this Alabama institute the Tuskegee Institute |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: In Switzerland, you can visit the schoolhouse of little Johanna Spyri, best known as the author of this novel Heidi |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $100: Never heard of his 1847 novel "Omoo"? Well, maybe you know "Moby-Dick", the novel this author published four years later Melville |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $300: The 1929 novel "Cup of Gold" isn't on your Kindle? You might be more familiar with "The Grapes of Wrath", also by this author John Steinbeck |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $1600: Lee Israel forged & sold hundreds of letters purportedly from the likes of Edna Ferber & this "Blithe Spirit" author Coward |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $2000: The striking miners have the sympathy of this French realist author in his 1885 novel "Germinal" Émile Zola |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: Gogol is the author of works like "Dead Souls"; googol is 10 raised to this power 100 |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $400: In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865 Charles Dickens |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1000: If the author of "Push" had chosen her birthstone instead of this pseudonym, she would be Peridot Sapphire |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $800: The book that started it all, 1993's "Along Came a Spider", was this author's first novel to feature detective Alex Cross (James) Patterson |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $1200: Cathy Queen of Cats is a character in "The House on Mango Street" by this author Sandra Cisneros |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat" (E.B.) White |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $600: This famous author isn't a character in Edward Albee's best-known play, but her name is in the title Virginia Woolf |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $800: His 2018 obit described him as a physicist and author "who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair" Hawking |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $2000: In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", this author writes, "You are what you eat... & if this is true, then what we mostly are is corn" (Michael) Pollan |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Some say the phrase, "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to the family of this upper-class author of "The House of Mirth" (Edith) Wharton (born Edith Jones) |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1000: Joel Osteen's résumé includes author, pastor & this 13-letter word televangelist |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $2000: Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with a Blake painting in "Red Dragon" by this author Thomas Harris |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1600: "City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city Detroit |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $600: This author created Tik-Tok of Oz, a mechanical man who ran on clockworks L. Frank Baum |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PANCHO VILLAGE $2000: This "Devil's Dictionary" author disappeared after going to Mexico, reportedly to write about Pancho Villa Ambrose Bierce |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $200: This country diva serenades this "Huck Finn" author with her hit "You're Still The One" Mark & Shania Twain |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | TRAILER PARK $400: A "Mansfield Park" trailer noted that this author valued the story above "Emma" & "Sense and Sensibility" Jane Austen |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $800: This author has written Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman (David) McCullough |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $1200: Part of the "Foundation" of the life of this prolific sci-fi author was being honorary vice president of Mensa Isaac Asimov |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing":
He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field... and don't notice it" (Alice) Walker |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Now We Are Six" is a collection of rhymes from this "Winnie-the-Pooh" author Milne |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | READING RAINBOW $1000: Julien Sorel is the amoral hero of this novel by French author Stendhal The Red and the Black |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $600: If you read "If—", you'll be taking a look / At a poem by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $800: As a mycologist, this author's studies included spore germination; Jemima Puddle-Duck would have to wait a few years Beatrix Potter |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $800: Successful "Little" author seen here Alcott |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $800: In the 1820s, this author introduced his character Leatherstocking as an old man, depicting his youth in later novels James Fenimore Cooper |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $1200: After this author's death on January 13th, 1941, the wake wasn't for Finnegan, but for him Joyce |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $1,000 (Daily Double): This title character becomes a successful author & marries Dora Spenlow David Copperfield |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $1000: "The best is the enemy of the good"--no dolt, there / It must be the enlightened author, monsieur... Voltaire |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $500: Pioneering journalist Martha Gellhorn made a brief home in Cuba during the '40s as the third wife of this author Hemingway |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $400: Aptly, this author of "Tropic of Capricorn" was, in fact, a Capricorn Henry Miller |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $400: This prolific author used the name Paul French for some sci-fi works (Isaac) Asimov |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $1600: "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was brought to life by this author; a response of "42" won't help you Douglas Adams |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $2000: This author's "Things Fall Apart" is set in an Igbo village (Chinua) Achebe |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "I, Claudius" author Robert Graves expressed the disillusion of many in "Goodbye to All That", his memoir of this war World War I |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Harry Bertram of Ellangowan is the actual hero of the 1815 "Waverley" tale "Guy Mannering" by this author Sir Walter Scott |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled "I Am" this Malala |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): On display at the Newark Public Librarv is the copy of "Portnoy's Complaint" this author inscribed to his parents Philip Roth |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $1000: A 13-year-old boy is drawn into the underworld of art in "The Goldfinch" by this author Donna Tartt |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $600: The 2000 opera "In the Penal Colony" is based on a gruesome 1914 story by this author of "The Metamorphosis" Kafka |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1600: Honoré was the first name of this French "Human Comedy" author Balzac |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $800: The pseudonym he used for "The Running Man" in 1982 came to this author as he listened to a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive Stephen King (Richard Bachman) |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: Wilde said this "Man and Superman" author didn't have "an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | 'ROUND MIDNIGHT $2000: "The Other Side of Me" is a memoir by this author of "The Other Side of Midnight" Sidney Sheldon |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $1000: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "The story had held us round the fire, sufficiently breathless", is how this author began "The Turn of the Screw", about a governess trying to protect children from the effects of malevolent spirits (Henry) James |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $200: Like her father and Atticus Finch, Alice Lee, sister of author Harper Lee, was one of these professionals lawyer |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $400: This author of "The Giving Tree" gave us the poem "Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda", a fun-size lesson in just doing it Shel Silverstein |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $400: Before becoming a prolific author, he taught biochemistry Asimov |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $2000: "Drummer Hodge", a poem by this "Mayor of Casterbridge" author, recounts a young soldier's burial Thomas Hardy |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $5,400 (Daily Double): An around-the-world yacht race that requires sailors to round Cape Horn awards a trophy named for this author Jules Verne |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | "M"USICALS $800: In this Lerner & Loewe show, Colonel Pickering, author of "Spoken Sanskrit", makes a dare to a colleague My Fair Lady |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $1500: A 1988 New York Times review counted over 275 diverse characters in "Alaska", the "latest huge novel" by this author Michener |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover Ayn Rand |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | MAY WE QUOTE YOU? $1200: In his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize speech, this author & Holocaust survivor said, "If we forget we are guilty, we are accomplices" (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $2000: He's the 18th century author of the farce "The Barber of Seville" & the comedy "The Marriage of Figaro" Beaumarchais |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $400: In addition to her successful children's books about animals, this author was a committed conservationist (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $800: This American author had a beloved pet named Catterina, who we hope was not the inspiration for his horror tale "The Black Cat" Poe |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $400: In "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" , André 3000 says the drama at the club is "reminiscent of Charles", this 19th century author Dickens |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $800: A 2Pac alter ego & a Waka Flocka flame album both allude to this Italian author of "The Prince" Machiavelli |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $2000: Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian Boccaccio |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE BAR MITZVAH BOY $2000: This future author of unsettling tales became a man on June 13, 1896 in Prague Kafka |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $1200: This author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" helped write the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born" (Joan) Didion |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $1000: This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur Ishiguro |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $200: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I developed my love of books as a child; my parents always made sure we were surrounded by plenty, & a favorite they used to read to me aloud was this author's "James and the Giant Peach" Roald Dahl |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $800: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One book that I have read multiple times & chose for my book club is "The Bluest Eye" by this woman, my all-time favorite author Toni Morrison |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A GAME OF CARDS $2000: The name of this 18th century whist expert & author is often invoked as an authority, as in "According to" (Edmond) Hoyle |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | WHO ARE "U"? $1600: Never afraid to "Bring It On", she's the actress, activist & author seen here Gabrielle Union |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $2000: This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $800: Not the Pickwick but the Garrick Club was the site of conversations that caused a falling out between Thackeray & this author Dickens |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $800: "The Bell Jar":
Esther Greenwood, this author's alter ego (Sylvia) Plath |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $2000: "The Overstory" by this author is partially set during the Pacific Northwest timber wars Richard Powers |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: 2 childhood friends wind up on opposite sides of the law in this author's 2022 legal thriller "The Boys from Biloxi" Grisham |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: A sequel to the original classic, 2009's "Dracula the Un-Dead" was co-written by this author's great-grandnephew Dacre (Bram) Stoker |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | THEIR MIDDLE INITIAL $1000: Of sci-fi & fantasy author Ursula Le Guin K. |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Mary Anne Evans was the real name of this "Middlemarch" author (George) Eliot |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $800: When in Edinburgh, visit Princes Street Gardens & its 200-foot monument to this 19th century author Sir Walter Scott |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $2000: A story of rich kids & their reckless, listless lives in 1980s Los Angeles, "Less than Zero" is by this author Bret Easton Ellis |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CANNERY $1,400 (Daily Double): This author said of Monterey, "The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum" John Steinbeck |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This author who set many of his novels in Wessex also had a terrier named Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: Gilbert Keith were the given names of this author famous for his Father Brown detective stories Chesterton |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He's the bestselling author of "Utopia Avenue" & "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THEIR OCCUPATIONAL SURNAMES $400: A variation on one who trains birds of prey: this author of "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1200: This Danish author became a baroness upon marrying her cousin, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, in 1914 (Isak) Dinesen |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $600: The author of "Roots", Alex Haley, earlier collaborated on the autobiography of this activist Malcolm X |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | LOVE LETTERS $1200: During 1932 this "Winesburg, Ohio" author wrote a letter a day to Eleanor Copenhaver; he dedicated "Beyond Desire" to her too Sherwood Anderson |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $800: He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Pirandello |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $3,200 (Daily Double): This Russian author & founder of literary socialist realism adopted a surname meaning "bitter" Gorky |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $1000: The title character in "Humboldt's Gift" by this author is based on his friend, poet Delmore Schwartz (Saul) Bellow |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $1200: The picaresque "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" features a character modeled after this "Tom Jones" author Henry Fielding |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $2000: In a 1722 work by this author, a woman under the alias Moll Flanders commits various crimes as she climbs a ladder to success Daniel Defoe |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $400: "A milestone in the chronicling of the black experience", wrote Publishers Weekly about this author's "Beloved" Morrison |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | MASTERPIECES $1200: Ernest Pontifex in "The Way of All Flesh" is a stand-in for this author of the posthumously published masterpiece Butler |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: In 2016, this beloved author of the "Fudge" books & her husband George opened a nonprofit bookstore in Key West, Florida Judy Blume |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | GRANDMA $2000: Of this model-turned-author,
actress Patricia Neal Sophie Dahl |
| #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 |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $2000: In 1898 this "Gift of the Magi" author spent time in the pokey for embezzlement of bank funds O. Henry |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $2000: This French author penned "The Last of Cherie", a novel about a man who was once in a relationship with an older woman Colette |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author the Great |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE QUOTABLE ALEX $1200: An author:
"All for one, one for all--that is our motto, is it not?" Dumas |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE QUOTABLE ALEX $1600: An author & former prisoner:
"Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit" Solzhenitsyn |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Swedish author Astrid Lindgren created strong characters like Ronja, the Robber's Daughter, & this redhead with braids (Pippi) Longstocking |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This magazine contributor, short-story author & poet once said, "I can't write five words but that I change seven" Dorothy Parker |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: The author of more than 50 books including "The Golden Notebook", she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature (Doris) Lessing |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ADULT BEVERAGES $400: This author gets the credit for the Vesper cocktail of gin, vodka & Lillet, as featured in "Casino Royale" Fleming |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $800: "Raise the Titanic!" is the fourth book featuring this author's action hero Dirk Pitt Clive Cussler |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "I Used to Live Here Once" is about this author, who like the heroine of her "Wide Sargasso Sea" had Caribbean roots Jean Rhys |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $1600: Odilon Redon made an 1882 series of prints inspired by the imagery of this American author Poe |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $1600: Dickens collaborated on several stories with a dear friend, this author of "The Moonstone" Wilkie Collins |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $800: Learning to count is fun with the antics of a dog, a lion & a tiger in this author's "Ten Apples Up On Top!" Dr. Seuss |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $400: This author went to Venus instead of Narnia in his space novel "Perelandra" C.S. Lewis |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HORRORS! $400: A youthful sweetheart of Oscar Wilde, Florence Balcombe would go on to wed this author of "Dracula" Stoker |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $800: As in "The Trial", this author uses a protagonist named K. in "The Castle"; a dark city with odd locals keeps K, busy Kafka |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $2000: The idyllic school Hailsham harbors grotesque deeds in "Never Let Me Go" from this Japanese-born author Kazuo Ishiguro |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $400: Prolific British mystery author & supermodel who's mom to Alexa Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FANTASY SPORTS $1000: This author says in "Sirens of Titan" that the children of Mars "spent most of their time playing German batball" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CARICATURES! $2000: She's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" author depicted here, with one of her beloved cats (Patricia) Highsmith |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $2000: One of this author's Navajo mysteries was rejected by an agent who said, "Get rid of all that Indian stuff" Tony Hillerman |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | HANS, SOLO $400: International Children's Book Day is celebrated on or around April 2, the birthday of this author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $1600: Later editions of this author's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" moved the story from 1992 to 2021 (Philip K.) Dick |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1600: This 3-named Irish author was a goner for actress Maud Gonne, who starred in his play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS $600: It was the term for upper class people in ancient Rome; today, it'd be more for fans of author Cornwell or actress Clarkson patricians |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS $800: A laborer in the feudal system; "Our American Cousin" author Tom Taylor titled a play about one, subtitled "Love Levels All" a serf |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: "The Tommyknockers" author who's a deadly venomous snake Stephen King cobra |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "The Lost Symbol" author who can often be quite grizzly a Dan Brown bear |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $2000: Aunt Mary Beton, mentioned in "A Room of One's Own", has been compared to this author's own Aunt Caroline Virginia Woolf |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $800: This German author published "Steppenwolf" in 1927 & went on to win a Nobel Prize (Hermann) Hesse |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: This Irish author created Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus James Joyce |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $2000: The National Book Award decided they "Better Call" this author, a winner for "Herzog" & "The Adventures of Augie March" (Saul) Bellow |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $600: The portrait of this author seen here was based on a sketch made by her sister Cassandra Jane Austen |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | THEY'RE "N"TITLED $2,000 (Daily Double): Author Richard Wright played the role of Bigger Thomas in a 1951 film based on this novel of his Native Son |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $800: This author's "Six Weeks' Tour" in 1814 with Percy tells of Europeans who in acts "hideous to English eyes, kissed each other" Mary Shelley |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $1600: 1785's "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" recounts James Boswell's trip taken with this author Samuel Johnson |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $2000: The Jason Segel film "The End of the Tour" was an adaptation of a book subtitled "A Road Trip with" this 3-named author David Foster Wallace |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $2000: This author innovated stream of consciousness when she penned "Jacob's Room" in 1922 Virginia Woolf |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE SERIES' AUTHOR $400: The "Twilight" saga (Stephenie) Meyer |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE SERIES' AUTHOR $800: The first 5 books of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Douglas Adams |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | LEARNING $800: This author's MasterClass sessions offer a case study of his novel "The Graveyard Book" (Neil) Gaiman |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE SERIES' AUTHOR $1200: The "Fifty Shades" trilogy (E.L.) James |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE SERIES' AUTHOR $1600: The Southern Vampire Mysteries, featuring Sookie Stackhouse (Charlaine) Harris |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE SERIES' AUTHOR $2000: The "Outlander" series Gabaldon |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | COACH: BEARD $500: Beard growers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your razors to emulate the beard of this "Communist Manifesto" author Marx |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $800: In 1897 this author was released from Reading Gaol & went into exile in France Wilde |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $800: "The unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence" is part of the "Country" of this author; how's your day going? Lovecraft |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $2000: While visiting San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, explore the 60-foot alley named for this road-tripping author Kerouac |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LETTER PERFECT $600: The author of "As I Lay Dying" added this letter to the family name U |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $5,600 (Daily Double): Part of a larger work, "The Knight's Tale" by this author begins, "Whilom, as olde stories tellen us" Chaucer |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $200: Beginning readers may learn about trick feet & sick feet in "The Foot Book" by this author whose real name was Theodor Geisel Dr. Seuss |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Of fairy tale author Hans Andersen Christian |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: Of the author of 1841's "Self-Reliance" Waldo |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $200: Not surprisingly this author of "Little Women" was an early feminist Louisa May Alcott |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $1000: Shortly before her death in 1924, this author of "The Secret Garden" wrote, "As long as one has a garden, one has a future" (Frances Hodgson) Burnett |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It was the birthplace of author James Joyce Dublin |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $1000: This author of "Waiting to Exhale" says, "I write about what breaks my heart, what I don't understand & what I wish I could change" McMillan |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $800: This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War Twain |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $400: Anagram fans know Loney M. Setnick's "The Pony Party!" is a feature in the "Autobiography" of this author of "Unfortunate Events" (Lemony) Snicket |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: Author Kevin Kwan was born in this southeast Asian city-state where "Crazy Rich Asians" is mostly set Singapore |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1600: This author saw conflict & harmony firsthand serving in the Russian army at the Siege of Sevastopol in the 1850s Tolstoy |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | TV SIDEKICKS $800: Now a bestselling author with "I'm Glad My Mom Died", Jennette McCurdy was sidekick Sam to Miranda Cosgrove on this show iCarly |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1200: Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a founder of this "fantastic" literary genre magical realism |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $2000: The American author of this 1889 book wrote it after reading Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" but Malory didn't include time travel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $2000: Joining Tom Holland & Chris Hemsworth for "In the Heart of the Sea", Ben Whishaw played this 19th century author Melville |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $12,400 (Daily Double): Greek author George Seferis, who won the award in 1963, wrote "Six Nights on" this hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: About 60 years after the event, this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "a Journal of the Plague Year" based on real accounts Defoe |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $1000: In "An Act of Vengeance" by this Chilean author, Dulce Rosa plots for 30 years, gets her chance & things turn out different (Isabel) Allende |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $1600: Ann Goldstein learned Italian to read Dante & has translated this pseudonymous author whose name rhymes with Dante (Elena) Ferrante |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $1000: In "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, a couple names their baby after this author of "Dead Souls" Gogol |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $1600: This author wrote a dedication "To my dear Husband" though they never actually wed, as the "Husband" already had a wife (George) Eliot |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Esther Greenwood, who has a mental breakdown in "The Bell Jar", was largely based on this author herself Sylvia Plath |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This Swedish author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" & its sequels died before any of them were published Stieg Larsson |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $100: In 1973 Anne Rice sank her teeth into writing her first novel, about an "interview with" one of these, & finished in 5 weeks a vampire |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $200 (Daily Double): Bootlegger Max Gerlach was one of the people F. Scott Fitzgerald may have used as the model for this title character Gatsby |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $200: Harper Lee based Dill Harris on Truman Capote, a childhood friend in Alabama, in this Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $400: Mary Shelley wrote, "I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing" in this 1818 novel; spark infused! Ooooops Frankenstein |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $500: She showed "Sense & Sensibility" by starting that book with "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" Austen |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $2000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter David Copperfield |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST $400: (Shankar Vedantam presents the clue.) I talked with psychologist and "Generation Me" author, Jean Twenge, about the rise of this -ism in society, an inflated view of one's self, named for a mythological youth narcissism |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $3,500 (Daily Double): Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist (Margaret) Mead |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $500: Subjected to Islamist death threats since the 1980s, this author was savagely attacked at a speaking engagement Salman Rushdie |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | STORIES WITH HEART $1000: "The Best of Me" by this bestselling author of "The Notebook" literally has heart--heartbreak & a heart transplant Nicholas Sparks |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: In 1840 critic & author Margaret Fuller became the first editor of the Dial, a journal of this philosophical movement transcendentalism |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | SCIENCE FICTION $500: Like this author, Lord Dorwin in his "Foundation" series has an impressive pair of sideburns (Isaac) Asimov |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $3,200 (Daily Double): "The Pelican Brief", a 1992 thriller by this author, became a movie starring Denzel Washington & Julia Roberts John Grisham |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | LIONS, TIGERS & BEARS $1000: An early version of this Mississippi author's story "The Bear" was published under the title "Lion" Faulkner |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1200: In 800 pages Paul Auster's "Burning Boy" tells the story of this "Red Badge of Courage" author who died aged 28 (Stephen) Crane |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1600: The unexpurgated transcript of the 1895 libel trial involving this author appeared in 2003 & a 2021 bio makes good use of it (Oscar) Wilde |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $3,400 (Daily Double): In "The Family Chao", author lan Samantha Chang reimagined this Dostoyevsky classic using a Chinese-American family The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $800: Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course Stephen King |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $1600: "The Dead" is the best known of the 15 short stories in this author's "Dubliners" Joyce |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $300: A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book a blurb |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Huckle Cat & Lowly Worm are just 2 of the inhabitants of the busy, busy world of this author & illustrator Richard Scarry |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | CONS $2000: Mythcon 19 in 1988 had as a guest of honor this "Always Coming Home" fantasy author & was held in Berkeley, her birthplace Ursula Le Guin |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: "The Sicilian" by this author is another novel set in his universe of the criminal Corleone clan Mario Puzo |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $4,000 (Daily Double): Like the narrator of "The Little Prince", the book's author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, chose this as his profession pilot |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $1600: Asked whether she'd call "A Wrinkle in Time" science fiction or fantasy, this author suggested "science fantasy" Madeleine L'Engle |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2000: This author of visionary sci-fi tales like "The Minority Report" could turn out 120 words a minute on a manual typewriter Philip K. Dick |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $400: This French author's "From the Earth to the Moon" features a rocket ship shot out of a cannon Jules Verne |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $1200: This Frank McCourt Pulitzer winner became a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson as the author's mother Angela's Ashes |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $800: This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place Kafka |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $2000: Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in "I Capture the Castle" by this "101 Dalmatians" author Dodie Smith |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $2000: In 2022 Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker headlined this author's classic comedy "Plaza Suite" on Broadway Neil Simon |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $1200: In 2021, the mayor of New Orleans paid tribute to this author of vampire tales, saying, "We have lost an icon" Anne Rice |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WRITER, WRONGER $2000: This author of "Naked Lunch" shot & killed his second wife in a drunken accident William S. Burroughs |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WHAT IS LOVE... $800: In "Tuesdays with Morrie", this author wrote, "Love is the only rational act" Mitch Albom |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | LITERARY DOCTORS $1600: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is one of this author's 1837 "Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | LITERARY DOCTORS $4,000 (Daily Double): This German author's novel "Doctor Faustus" reimagines the doc as a 20th century composer Thomas Mann |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $2000: A room at the U.S. Department of the Interior is named for this author of "Silent Spring" (Rachel) Carson |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $2000: She's the author of the female empowerment bestseller "Untamed" & the wife of Abby Wambach Glennon Doyle |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | SPIES LIKE THEM $1200: His own spy days are part of "The Pigeon Tunnel" by this author of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" le Carré |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $800: Called "a great breezy read", "Summer Crossing" by this "Breakfast at Tiffany's" author was published in 2005 Capote |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $9,000 (Daily Double): This author traded China for the Korean DMZ in "The Eternal Wonder", published 40 years after her 1973 death (Pearl) Buck |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FICTIONAL PLACES $400: In the world of this author, District 1 provided luxury items; District 5, power & electricity (Suzanne) Collins |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL $1000: You likely won't hear him bragging about it, but this reclusive author of "Vineland" won a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1988 (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FICTIONAL PLACES $1200: This author created Magrathea, which worked to create a second earth, as the first was destroyed by Vogons to create a galactic bypass (Douglas) Adams |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $600: Magizoologist Newt Scamander & British wizard Kennilworthy Whisp have stood in for this author (J.K.) Rowling |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter Maya Angelou |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $800: Korzeniowski was the original last name of this "Lord Jim" author Joseph Conrad |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $1600: "The Last Tycoon" was left unfinished at this author's death F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $600: The author's sole novel, published in 1963 The Bell Jar |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: "Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name Andre |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $1200: "Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author Steinbeck |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This author's "The Hundred Secret Senses" continues her explorations of Chinese-American families (Amy) Tan |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1600: "Cat's Cradle" by this author begins with a chapter called "The Day the World Ended" & goes on from there (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $2000: An impressment ordinance got this author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" caught up in the English Civil Wars John Bunyan |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $400: An epidemic strikes Algeria in "The Plague" by this author Albert Camus |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $1600: A virulent disease targets only women in "The White Plague" by this author of "Dune" Herbert |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | ALL APOLOGIES $1600: In 2010 John Henry Newman, author of the "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", underwent this process that precedes canonization beatification |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SCI-FI TRILOGIES $1600: "The Broken Earth" trilogy is from this award-winning author whose initials stand for Nora Keita Jemisin |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: In her book "Tenderness", Alison MacLeod explores the origins & publication of this author's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" D.H. Lawrence |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $1000: "Cities of the Interior" author
Ms. Nin Anais |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $2000: Erewhon, in an 1872 satire Samuel Butler |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $800: Tom Kitten gets rolled up in dough & is almost baked in a pudding in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" by this author Beatrix Potter |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $200: This author was jailed in Concord in 1846 for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War Thoreau |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $400: Also known for his detective fiction, French author Gaston Leroux wrote this 1910 "operatic" work The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1200: The author of "My Brilliant Friend" uses this Italian pseudonym & will stop publishing if her identity is revealed Elena Ferrante |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1600: "Road to Tara: The Life of" this author Margaret Mitchell |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century Sir Walter Scott |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $600: An annual read aloud book award is named for this "Stuart Little" author E.B. White |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Movie auteur Wes & book author Sherwood Anderson |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN MEMORIAM 2021 $1000: This author & essayist who also wrote screenplays with husband John Gregory Dunne passed away at 87 Joan Didion |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $800: Published in 1724, "Roxana" was the last major work of fiction by this "Robinson Crusoe" author Defoe |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $2000: This author of the "Wolf Hall Trilogy" has been called the queen of historical fiction (Hilary) Mantel |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1600: "Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage Voyager |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $400: Julia Quinn is the author behind this steamy series of books that include "The Viscount Who Loved Me" & "To Sir Phillip, with Love" Bridgerton |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $800: Despite numerous surgeries, eye problems left this "Dubliners" author nearly blind Joyce |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 this author announced he was passing the Jack Reacher baton to his younger brother Andrew Lee Child |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang (Jack) London |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $2000: In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s Amor Towles |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $400: The "Amazing Amy" series of books is oft-mentioned in this thriller from Gillian Flynn Gone Girl |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $800: In this author's "A Fault in Our Stars", Hazel is mesmerized while reading "An Imperial Affliction" (John) Green |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $400: In 1995 Octavia Butler became the first author in this genre to be honored with a MacArthur Genius Grant science fiction |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $800: In 1989, 30 years after this "Doctor Zhivago" author had to turn down his Nobel Prize, his son accepted it on his behalf Boris Pasternak |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $1200: The word detective was brand new at the time this author introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the model for the detective in fiction Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: " Everything I Never Told You" is the debut novel by this author of "Little Fires Everywhere" Celeste Ng |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: In this "colorful" author's "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing", alien sculptures called the Carls pop up all over Earth Hank Green |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: This author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" said his life's work was justified by the 1982 film adaptation "Blade Runner" (Phillip K.) Dick |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $400: Emily Brontë says it flat out in Chapter 1: this title place "is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling" Wuthering Heights |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $800: Reasonably sure that people would like another story about dinosaurs, he published "The Lost World" in 1995 Crichton |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | MIDAS $800: In "The Lost Hero" by this adapter of myths for young adults, Midas turns Leo & Piper into gold statues (Rick) Riordan |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $1200: This Alabama woman was honored by President Bush for her "outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition" in 2007 Harper Lee |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $1600: His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods" Thoreau |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $2000: O! This author of "O Pioneers" was featured on a stamp in 1973 Cather |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Luigi Pirandello is best remembered for this numerical play from 1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $1200: "Sex and Vanity" is this alliterative author's first novel outside the universe of "Crazy Rich Asians" Kevin Kwan |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: With four Hugo Awards on her mantel, this author wrote about the Big Apple in "The City We Became" N.K. Jemisin |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Published in 2020,"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" by this author is set in Panem Suzanne Collins |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $800: This author of fantasy novels & of "Mere Christianity" worshiped at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford & you can too (C.S.) Lewis |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $1000: A pier in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba is named for this American author who was known to fish in its waters (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Jabberwocky" appears in this author's "Through the Looking-Glass" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | DEAN'S LIST $1600: Dean Moriarty comes out of reform school, not college, in a novel by this Beat Generation author (Jack) Kerouac |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | "KN"OWLEDGE $1600: Last name of author John, who wrote "A Separate Peace" Knowles |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PROSE $2000: She's the 18th century author of "Mary, A Fiction" & "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" Wollstonecraft |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This author best remembered for writing about his own "Roots" also co-authored "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" Haley |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT WAS ALL PURPLE $1000: In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted a house in an historic area of San Antonio purple (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $200: Neil Patrick Harris was Count Olaf on this series; Patrick Warburton played author Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $1600: Journey 300 miles west from a city where author Thomas Wolfe lived to a city known for music Asheville & Nashville |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This "Good Earth" author wrote a very personal account of her daughter Carol in "The Child Who Never Grew" Pearl S. Buck |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $600: This prolific author, seen here, who wrote of London's seedier side, spent years helping destitute girls there Dickens |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $1000: This author of vampire novels donated $1 from each sale of "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" to the Red Cross Stephenie Meyer |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $2000: This newspaperman & author of "The Devil's Dictionary" met a mysterious fate after going to Mexico in 1913 Ambrose Bierce |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $1600: This British-born author's "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" was later published as part of his "Berlin Stories" Isherwood |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ILLUSTRATORS $800: On YouTube, children's author & illustrator Marc Brown teaches you how to draw this beloved aardvark Arthur |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CENTENARIANS $1200: This children's author (1916-2021) won a National Book Award for "Ramona and Her Mother" Beverly Cleary |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $2000: Tom Wolfe was the white-suited author of "The Right Stuff"; Thomas Wolfe wrote the 1940 novel "You Can't" do this Go Home Again |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $800: A failed actor is shanghaied to Mars in "Double Star", the 1956 best novel by this author of "Starship Troopers" Heinlein |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $1000: This author, Hugo-nominated in his 20s for "Babel-17", has the middle initial "R" for Ray; he won a few years later Samuel R. Delany |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" L. Frank Baum |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $800: This "Sex and the City" author also gave us "Lipstick Jungle" & "One Fifth Avenue" (Candace) Bushnell |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | GLOBAL LIT $2000: The translator of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" says this Japanese author does weird things to your brain Murakami |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Some ashes of this "Rabbit at Rest" author are at rest in Pennsylvania; some are in Massachusetts Updike |
| #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 |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $400: You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer" Cooperstown |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | THE HEROINE'S AUTHOR $400: Katniss Everdeen Collins |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | THE HEROINE'S AUTHOR $800: Clarice Starling (Thomas) Harris |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | THE HEROINE'S AUTHOR $1200: Antonia Shimerda Willa Cather |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | THE HEROINE'S AUTHOR $1600: V.I. Warshawski Sara Paretsky |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | THE HEROINE'S AUTHOR $2000: Ayla, of the "Earth's Children" novels Jean Auel |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | LITERARY MUSEUMS $1200: You can find your roots at the museum devoted to this author of "Roots": genealogy services are offered to its visitors (Alex) Haley |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $600: In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island Catalina |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $800 (Daily Double): Co-authored by Brian Herbert, "House Atreides" is the first in a series of prequels to this series Dune |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Third time's the charm for this author who won a Pulitzer for her third novel, "The Goldfinch" Donna Tartt |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: This late author's sci-fi & fantasy classics include "The Left Hand of Darkness" & The Earthsea books Ursula Le Guin |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: At 14, this British author of "White Teeth" changed the first letter of her name from S to Z, thinking it sounded more exotic Zadie Smith |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | LITERARY PROFESSORS $1200: The protagonist of this author's 1995 novel "Wonder Boys" was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor Michael Chabon |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2000: As the result of his "Gulag Archipelago", this author was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 & wouldn't return for 20 years Solzhenitsyn |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $400: Based on the author's preface to this book, it could have been "The Last of the Wapanachki" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $1200: Ocean Vuong, author of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous", got his name because the ocean touches the U.S. & this, his native country Vietnam |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | PILGRIMS' PROGRESS $1200: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" gives an example of this type of "hero" named for the poem's author a Byronic hero |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $1600: This New Yorker regular & bestselling author of "Talking to Strangers" co-hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast Malcolm Gladwell |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $1000: Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS $2000: 1803 Cliff Street:
the park named for this Pulitzer-winning Pittsburgh playwright & "Fences" author (August) Wilson |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: To write, a woman needs "money and a room of her own", declared this 20th century author (Virginia) Woolf |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THE SHIRLEY BOOTH $800: "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a Gothic novel by this author also known for her short stories Shirley Jackson |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | RUSSIANS $400: On Dec. 22, 1849 this author of "Crime & Punishment" was led before a firing squad, only to get a last-minute pardon from the czar Dostoevsky |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | WRITING THE GOVERNESS $800: This author wrote about governesses in "The Turn of the Screw" & "What Maisie Knew" (Henry) James |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | WRITING THE GOVERNESS $1200: Susan is a governess in "Hogfather", one of this author's "Discworld" novels Pratchett |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $600: Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man L. Frank Baum |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $1200: Lucas Beauchamp, a character in this southern author's "Intruder in the Dust", is also in his story collection "Go Down, Moses" Faulkner |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $400: The doomed Frances Earnshaw, mom of the less doomed Hareton Earnshaw Emily Brontë |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $800: The snobby lady Catherine de Bourgh & the treacherous John Dashwood Jane Austen |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $1200: José Arcadio, so magically real, & Fermina Daza (Gabriel García) Márquez |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $1600: Charles Lindbergh & Sophie Portnoy, a good smother... I mean a good mother! Philip Roth |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $2000: Tralfamadorians & (God bless you,) Eliot Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $1600: Finally published in its entirety in 2021, "The Man Who Lived Underground" is by this late author of "Native Son" Richard Wright |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $1200: This author's estate chose journalist David Lagercrantz to continue the "Millennium" series Stieg Larsson |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $1600: "Mitt liv som hund" by author Reidar Jönsson became this movie My Life as a Dog |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $2000: Bestsellers by this contemporary author include "Bear Town" & "A Man Called Ove" Fredrik Backman |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $200: This actress & bestselling author was the first female head writer of the show (Tina) Fey |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | BY A ONE-NAMED WRITER $2000: This French author of "Gigi" also wrote a series of novels about a young woman named Claudine Colette |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $1600: This prolific author's "A Princess of Mars" transported itself to the silver screen as the more masculine "John Carter" Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $400: Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | SUPERLATIVES $2000: Motivational author Zig Ziglar reminded us to "Expect the best", followed by these 4 words prepare for the worst |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Outside the Ansonia, Connecticut Public Library, a memorial fountain & horse trough honors this "Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $2000: "Girl with curious hair", with a tale of a "Jeopardy!" win streak, is a story collection by this late author of a looong novel (David Foster) Wallace |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | RECENT FICTION $600: In 2020 this author brought back Mississippi lawyer Jake Brigance for a third go-around in "A Time for Mercy" (John) Grisham |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | 17th CENTURY NAMES $800: World Book says this author & soldier was "known for his skill in sword fighting and for his long nose" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | RECENT FICTION $800: "The President's Daughter" is the second political thriller from Bill Clinton & this bestselling author (James) Patterson |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $400: "Texasville" & "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021 (Larry) McMurtry |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" is modeled on this author's "Howards End" Forster |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $1200: This German-Swiss author's 1919 novel, "Demian", was published under the pen name Emil Sinclair (Hermann) Hesse |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $800: This author created the characters Jonathan Harker & Dr. Van Helsing (Bram) Stoker |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | LIT BITS $1000: This author, Harvard class of 1852, never exactly wore rags himself but loved the "to riches" part Alger |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling" Jack London |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church Stendhal |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $400: University of Mississippi alumni include Shepard Smith, Michael Oher & this bestselling author of "The Street Lawyer" Grisham |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $1600: One man's rebellion against a world run by machines is the plot of "Player Piano", this author's first Vonnegut |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This author's first major book was 1742's "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" Edmond Hoyle |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $200: "Mockingbird" is Charles Shields' portrait of this author & the creation of her most acclaimed work Harper Lee |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: The author of works like "Cevdet Bey & His Sons", Orhan Pamuk was the first Nobel literature prize winner from this country Turkey |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $400: Civil War P.O.W.s crash land in a hot air balloon onto this French author's "Mysterious Island" Jules Verne |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In "Stranger in a Strange Land", this author came up with "grok", meaning to understand someone thoroughly Robert Heinlein |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: This author who inspired generations to trace their genealogy is buried at his ancestral home in Henning, Tennessee (Alex) Haley |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $1200: Author Knut Hamsun tarnished his reputation when he gave his Nobel Prize medal to this Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1200: This Polish author who wrote in English lived in exile in Russia as a child & went to sea as a teenager Joseph Conrad |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS $2000: "The Center Will Not Hold", a documentary by nephew Griffin Dunne, is a portrait of this iconic author & essayist Joan Didion |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | THAT'S MY AIRPORT $400: Flight 007 now landing in Boscobel, Jamaica at the airport named for this British author (Ian) Fleming |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $400: From 1782 until his death in 1832, this "Faust" author lived & worked in the grand Weimar residence seen here Goethe |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $1600: In the 1930s the Nazis burned the books of this "All Quiet on the Western Front" author & took away his citizenship (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | -OLA $1600: This French author went to school with Paul Cezanne, who introduced him to the Impressionist painters (Émile) Zola |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $400: In "Everybody's Protest Novel", James Baldwin took to task this novel & its author Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TV ON PBS $2000: This author, scholar & critic helped celebrities connect to their past on "Finding Your Roots" (Henry Louis) Gates |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | MONTANA $400: "Eragon" author Christopher Paolini is a longtime Montana resident, while this 4-time Oscar nominee was born there Michelle Williams |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: This Mumbai-born author opens "Midnight's Children" as India becomes independent Salman Rushdie |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Hyeonseo Lee is one of the names of the author of "The Girl with Seven Names", about defecting from this country North Korea |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | "A" IS FOR WRITER $1000: "De amor y de sombra", "Of Love & Shadows", is a 1984 novel by this Chilean-American author Allende |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $800: It's "Double Fudge" when 2 cousins, both named Farley Drexel Hatcher, meet in a tale by this legendary children's author Judy Blume |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $1000: The first published novel by this author of "The Moonstone" was 1850's "Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome" Wilkie Collins |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $400: Who but this bestselling author would write "Autopsy Room Four", "The Boogeyman" & of course, "Jerusalem's Lot" Stephen King |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 1920s GOOD READS $1200: Illustrated by the author, the voyages of this physician with animal pals, won a Newbery Medal as Most Distinguished Children's Book Dr. Dolittle |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $800: Tom Wolfe wrote of the adventures of this author & the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Ken Kesey |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $1600: This author from Prague never visited the U.S. & it shows when the Statue of Liberty holds aloft a sword on page 1 of his novel "Amerika" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $2000: The husband of this French author also wrote under one name, Willy Colette |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE ALUMNI $1000: In "Presidential Lottery", this "Tales of the South Pacific" author wrote about being an elector in the 1968 election James Michener |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $1600: In 2019 Czechia gave this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author his citizenship back after 40 years Milan Kundera |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $2000: This Brazilian author of "The Alchemist" deleted a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Kobe's tragic death (Paulo) Coelho |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $1600: Author Howard Phillips H.P. Lovecraft |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: The infamous Red Wedding takes place in this author's "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SELF-HELP YOURSELF $1000: This "Eat, Pray, Love" author also offered "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" (Elizabeth) Gilbert |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $1600: Mega-bestselling author David Baldacci first got the reading bug from books about Freddy, a talking this animal a pig |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | LITERARY SETTINGS $2000: Decades after his Nigerian-set "Things Fall Apart", this author's "Anthills of the Savannah" is set in fictional Kangan Chinua Achebe |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $2000: The story of a spirited adopted girl growing up in Canada, "Anne of Green Gables" is by this author Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | IMMORAL LINE $2000: Judge Holden in "Blood Meridian" by this author advises, "Every child knows that play is nobler than work" Cormac McCarthy |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | FUNNY BOOKS $600: This actress and stand-up comedienne is also the author of the book "The Last Black Unicorn" Tiffany Haddish |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $400: Henry Fonda, who played Tom Joad on film, read some poetry at the funeral of this author in 1968 John Steinbeck |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1200: Beginning 100 years after this author's death, a mysterious stranger visited annually leaving cognac & 3 roses at his Baltimore grave Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1600: In 1881, some 30,000 mourners turned out in St. Petersburg for the funeral of this man, one of the greatest writers of all time Dostoevsky |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $2000: Toni Morrison paid tribute to this "Go Tell It On The Mountain" author on his passing with a piece in the New York Times Baldwin |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $4,000 (Daily Double): On his 1875 passing in Copenhagen, it was said though his eyes were closed, in children's hearts, he would live forever Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $1200: This reclusive author of "Franny and Zooey" hit Utah Beach with the U.S. Army Salinger |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | A COLLEGE CONFERENCE CALL $400: Big Sky: Of course the conference includes the U. of this--alumni include Pulitzer winner A.B. Guthrie Jr., author of "The Big Sky" Montana |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $200: Its author shouldn't "waste his strength on such purposeless and unequal doings as these rambling volumes about spermaceti whales" Moby-Dick |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | ARMY SURPLUS $800: Rick Atkinson, author of acclaimed books of military history, describes himself as an "army" this, who grew up on posts a brat |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | DETECTIVE FICTION $400: With bestsellers like the "Women's Murder Club" series, this author was one of the first to sell over 1 million e-books Patterson |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | DETECTIVE FICTION $600: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) With my co-author, Anna Waterhouse, I've written three mystery novels featuring a very smart man named Mycroft, the older brother of this great literary character Sherlock Holmes |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $400: This author was the non-headless horseman when he explored Oklahoma on a "stout silver-gray" in 1832 Irving |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $2000: "The Prime of" Muriel Spark's writing was this novel, penned in less than a month, according to the author The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $400: (Patrice Sanders of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Halloween is special here in Baltimore when brave spirits come to Westminster Hall to see the grave of this "Telltale Heart" author & local resident, & descend into nearby catacombs Poe |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $1200: Patrick Bateman, in this author's "American Psycho" (Bret Easton) Ellis |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $2000: A guy with this first name, the same as the author, in the multi-part "Remembrance of Things Past" Marcel |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $2,500 (Daily Double): "Dragon Teeth", published after his 2008 death, returned to the world of paleontology Michael Crichton |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800: In the 1830s, before she was a bestselling author, she lived in Cincinnati, across from a slave-holding community Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Simon & Schuster sponsors an award for suspense fiction named for this female author of "A Stranger is Watching" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This author originated "tilting at windmills", meaning fighting imaginary foes Cervantes |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $400: This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn--they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends Waugh |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $600: In 2020 this author of "Dear John" returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with "The Return" Nicholas Sparks |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $1600: Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress vacationing on the Riviera, tempts the hero of this author's "Tender is the Night" Fitzgerald |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $2000: This author married a man she met on a Caribbean vacation; her character Stella has a similar experience (Terry) McMillan |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $200: " 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be... but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic"' (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $400: "Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up & get them going?" Bradbury |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $800: Named "after Alexander Portnoy... symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship" (Philip) Roth |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $1000: "They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey" Salinger |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $3,600 (Daily Double): "Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen" Melville |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | BRITISH SPYCRAFT $1000: This alliterative author served in MI6 & used his real code number for a character in "Our Man in Havana" Graham Greene |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $1200: Elizabeth has a tough life in Harlem as her son challenges her husband in this author's "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (James) Baldwin |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | 2 MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Edward Burghardt were the middle names of this author & civil rights activist--the opening "W." was for William W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $1600: "Redhead By the Side of the Road" is a 2020 novel by this author of "The Accidental Tourist" (Anne) Tyler |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $1200: This author's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death Alexandre Dumas |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $200: This "Where the Wild Things Are" author had a "tame thing", a German shepherd named Herman (Maurice) Sendak |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $800: This author's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is based on the first 4 episodes of a BBC radio series he wrote Douglas Adams |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | MAN ABOUT TOWN $1600: This author & friend of Morrie writes about sports & more for the Detroit Free Press (Mitch) Albom |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | MINCED OATHS $5,000 (Daily Double): This, also the surname of a prolific 19th c. British author, was sometimes substituted for "devil" in oaths dickens |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $1000: A stone wall in "Stardust" by this author has a 6-foot gap, with guards posted on each side Neil Gaiman |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: Before becoming an author, Sue Monk Kidd worked as a nurse, getting her degree from this school, TCU for short Texas Christian University |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: It's no science fiction that in 1948 this prolific Russian-born author received a Ph.D in chemistry from Columbia University Isaac Asimov |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $1000: Andrew Ryan, the industrialist villain in "Bioshock", was inspired by this female author with the same initials Ayn Rand |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | ON MY READING LIST $2000: This Italian playwright's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Pirandello |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: "Thin Man" author Samuel Hammett Dashiell |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | PAPERBACK WRITER $800: When it comes to "L is for Lawless" & "C is for Corpse", "G" is for this bestselling mystery author (Sue) Grafton |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $400: Duane Chapman, aka this, the title of an A&E show, was a No. 1 bestselling author in 2007 with "You Can Run But You Can't Hide" Dog the Bounty Hunter |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $1200: Here's a "Post"--this author & commentator from Greece topped the list in 2014 with "Thrive" (Arianna) Huffington |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $800: Charles Dickens may have based Uriah Heep on this Danish author, who left a bad impression when he visited Dickens Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 HBO took us to the "Country" named for this author, as Black travelers face vile monsters like those in his fiction (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | CLARK $800: Famous as a prosecutor in the 1990s, she has since become a best-selling author of crime fiction Marcia Clark |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | RAINBOW COALITION $2000: "The Rainbow" by this British author was branded obscene after its 1915 release D.H. Lawrence |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | ONE-SUBJECT NONFICTION $800: In 2018 "Cod" & "Salt" author Mark Kurlansky tackled this liquid, letting us know donkey's is low-fat & goat's is high-protein milk |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | ELLISON $400: Sci-fi author Harlan Ellison wrote the story for the "City on the Edge of Forever" episode of this 1960s series Star Trek |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: "Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author James Patterson |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: Not about zombies, the short story "The Dead" is found in this Irish author's collection "Dubliners" James Joyce |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: This "verdant" author's "The Heart of the Matter" was set in Sierra Leone, where he was once stationed in World War II Graham Greene |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $7,000 (Daily Double): One of his most famous characters, Harry Haller, has the same initials as the author Hermann Hesse |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1200: This author based the novel "The Magic Mountain" on a trip to Davos, Switzerland to treat his wife's bronchitis Thomas Mann |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $1000: The term "Cold War" was first used in print by this British author in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb" George Orwell |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | SWEDEN LOWS--& HIGHS $1600: Low: in a twist like one out of his "Millennium" mysteries, some fans think this author was murdered in 2004 Stieg Larsson |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2000: In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman Walter Mosley |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $800: This author to Marlon Brando: "Dear Marlon, I'm praying that you'll buy 'On the Road' and make a movie of it" Kerouac |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $400: This Latin word for "I" "is the Enemy", says author Ryan Holiday: put goals ahead of personal acclaim ego |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $800: A 2019 book from this Indian-American author tells readers how to become "Metahuman" Deepak Chopra |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $2000: This author followed up a 1930s self-help bestseller with "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" Dale Carnegie |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $200: The anonymous author of the 2019 book "A Warning" is listed as a senior official in this administration the Trump Administration |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $800: Tender-Conscience is the hero of an anonymous author's "Third Part" of this work, tacked on to John Bunyan's parts 1 & 2 The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $400: You can get custom designer fangs of this classic lit character for $19.99 at Party City, just like the author intended Dracula |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | JOURNALISTS $2000: A longtime newspaperman, this author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" vanished after going to Mexico in 1913 (Ambrose) Bierce |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $2000: In 1932 this author began a passionate love affair in Paris with Anais Nin that would last for years Henry Miller |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $1600: A towering story of biblical proportions, this author's "Exodus" won for 1959 (Leon) Uris |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | DAILY READING $800: A youngster wakes up to find everything out of place in "Wacky Wednesday" by this author writing under the name Theo LeSieg Dr. Seuss |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $600: In the 1970s & '80s Melissa Gilbert & Melissa Sue Anderson starred in "Little House on the Prairie", based on books by this author Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $2000: Dubbed the "Queen of Suspense" for such novels as "You Belong to Me", this beloved author passed away in 2020 at age 92 Mary Higgins Clark |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | GOOD "P.R." $2000: This author who explored Jewish life in books like "Portnoy's Complaint" died in 2018 at age 85 Philip Roth |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: This author of "The Good Earth" also wrote the heartwarming "Christmas Day in the Morning" Pearl Buck |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN $200: The 2019 film of "Little Women" replicated Orchard House, where this author wrote & set the novel (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $2000: Depicted in "Hidden Figures", she was the 1st woman in the NASA flight research division credited as an author on a research report Katherine Johnson |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $1200: This author of the memoir "Eat Pray Love" wrote the 2019 fiction bestseller "City of Girls" Elizabeth Gilbert |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $600: He's the author of "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games"--the 2002 Salt Lake City games specifically Mitt Romney |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $2000: Ancient author of "From the Foundation of the City", a history of Rome in 142 volumes Livy |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS $3,200 (Daily Double): A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers Roald Dahl |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WE'D LIKE TO MAKE A CORRECTION $1000: Time's early version of "The 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College" included this "Brideshead Revisited" author, "who was a man" Evelyn Waugh |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | HERE'S LOOKING AT EUCLID $1200: Children's author Crockett Johnson did a painting illustrating Euclid's proof of this famous theorem the Pythagorean |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | DRAW ME $2000: This early 19th century German author and thinker received more than 20,000 surviving letters; here he is with one of them Goethe |
| #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 |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | LIT-POURRI $1000: "Swann's Way" is volume 1 of this author's "Remembrance of Things Past" Proust |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | NOTE BOOKS $1600: This author set "The Notebook" in North Carolina, where he lives Nicholas Sparks |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES $1200: The mythical silvery metal called mithril was created by this author J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: This name of the wicked witch in "Wicked" was based on the initials of the author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Elphaba |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | NOBEL LITERARY NOMINEES $1200: This "Magic Mountain" author nominated his friend Hermann Hesse, who joined him in the Nobel club Thomas Mann |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AUTHOR FILL-INS $400: LeBron
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Kilmer James Joyce |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AUTHOR FILL-INS $800: Upton
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Carroll Sinclair Lewis |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AUTHOR FILL-INS $1200: Kerry
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Thalberg Washington Irving |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AUTHOR FILL-INS $1600: Philip K.
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Ford Coppola Dick Francis |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AUTHOR FILL-INS $2000: Bryce
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Iacocca Harper Lee |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's this author in 1935, hard at work on "Gone With the Wind" (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Author-run bookstores include Ann Patchett's Parnassus Books in Nashville & his Booked Up Inc. in Archer City, Texas Larry McMurtry |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $2000: Early jobs for this "Hitchhiker's Guide" author include bodyguard, chicken shed cleaner & script editor for "Doctor Who" (Douglas) Adams |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $800: Melquíades is an old writer who represents García Márquez, the actual author of this 1960s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $400: This author's Ozcot (Frank) Baum |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $200: In 2006 a British high court ruled this author was not guilty of plagiarism in "The Da Vinci Code" (Dan) Brown |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $400: In the TV movie "A Burning Passion", Shannen Doherty portrayed this gone-too-soon author of "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: No twist necessary in the short stories that since 1919 win the prize named for this short story author O. Henry |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | MUSICALS $2000: "Fo' Dolla"' & "Our Heroine" were 2 of the "Tales of" this author made into the show "South Pacific" Michener |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | INVENTIONS $2000: William Burroughs, grandfather of the famous author William S., invented the first practical one of these office machines an adding machine |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $1600: This university's informal "Dropout Hall of Fame" includes author Jack London & '60s activist Jerry Rubin Cal (University of California in Berkeley) |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HELLER $1000: Like his character Yossarian, "Catch-22" author Joseph Heller was this 10-letter type of airman who must be on target a bombardier |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | AMERICA'S RICHEST SELF-MADE WOMEN $1000: Part of this author's nearly $400 million fortune came from books she wrote under the J.D. Robb pseudonym Nora Roberts |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA $2000: In the 1806 edition of his bio of George Washington, this author included the fictional tale of young George & the cherry tree Parson Weems |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | LITERARY LEE $400: This author who dealt with race and Southern ways, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 Harper Lee |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | LITERARY LEE $1200: Children's author Virginia Lee Burton created "Mike Mulligan and His" this digging machine a steam shovel |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $400: After nearly a decade of waiting, this author assures us "The Winds of Winter" is coming--there's an excerpt on his website George R.R. Martin |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | HYDE $200: The murderous Mr. Edward Hyde was created by this author (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: The Hudson series is a sequence of novels by this "Flowers in the Attic" author V.C. Andrews |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | RELIGIOUS FICTION $1200: "The Fifth Mountain" by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho tells of the "whirlwind" life of this biblical prophet Elijah |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $1200: From this ancient fable author's "The Jay and the Peacock": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds" Aesop |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | RAPPER'S DELIGHT $2000: Rapper Danny Boy O'Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author's "The Outsiders", so he restored it S.E. Hinton |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | DAY JOB VU $1600: In 1973 Erich Segal, author of this weepy bestseller about a dying coed, quit teaching classics at Yale, but he returned in the '80s Love Story |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $2000: Everyone has a special magic talent in this author's "Xanth" series that began with "A Spell for Chameleon" Piers Anthony |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $1200: This author who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi added the letter "U" to his last name Faulkner |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | UNFILMED NOVELS $1600: Plenty of this author's works have made it to the screen, but "Blood Meridian"--not yet Cormac McCarthy |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | LITERARY FESTIVALS $2000: One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $200: Novelist Henry & playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys Miller |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $400: Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys Wolfe |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $600: Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie Collins |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $800: E.B., T.H. & Australian Nobelist Patrick White |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $1000: Henry & Helen, who both wrote about title characters with the last name Jones Fielding |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | LOCK HIM UP! $1600: This "Robinson Crusoe" author was pilloried (literally) & jailed for libel in 1703 (Daniel) Defoe |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This British author of a famous dystopian novel was the grandson of a prominent biologist & the brother of 2 more biologists Huxley |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) The 20th century painting here of southern France is by Jean, great-grandson of this 19th century French romantic author Victor Hugo |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | THE GREATEST CANADIANS OF ALL TIME $200: (Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With more than 40 books of poetry, fiction & essays to her name, this author has won the Booker Prize twice: for "The Blind Assassin" in 2000 & for "The Testaments" in 2019 (Margaret) Atwood |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | NONSENSE WORDS $200: This author gave us many nonsense words & was not afraid to use them in titles, as in "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" Dr. Seuss |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $600: 5% of 4,000 to this author of "The NUMA Files" books & other maritime thrillers Clive Cussler |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BRITISH STUFF $4,800 (Daily Double): One of Britain's greatest minds was this 19th century physicist & author of "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" James Clerk Maxwell |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $1600: This 6'9" author who raised dinosaurs from the dead passed away in 2008 after a battle with cancer (Michael) Crichton |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $2000: Charlie Chaplin read this "Sister Carrie" author's poem "The Road I came" at his funeral & served as a pall bearer Dreiser |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $4,000 (Daily Double): Just prior to his death in 2006, this bestselling novelist wrote a book for younger readers called "Shark Life" Peter Benchley |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | "I" WROTE $400: The security at this author's "Hotel New Hampshire" is Susie, a woman in an animal costume John Irving |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $1000: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In the film "The Last Station" I play this Russian author caught between his worshipers & family; the title refers to the setting of my death scene Tolstoy |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | "I" WROTE $1200: "Berlin Stories" grew out of this British author's time in Germany during the Weimar Republic (Christopher) Isherwood |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | "I" WROTE $1600: Books on Ben Franklin & Leonardo da Vinci are included in this author's "The Genius Biographies" box set Walter Isaacson |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $800: Edited by the author's son Christopher & published in 1977, it's a history of Middle-earth before "Lord of the Rings" Silmarillion |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $2000: Colin Firth reads the line that gives a novel by this British author its title
But that wasn't what Sarah had said, and sitting there beside Henry in the Victoria Gardens, watching the day die, I remembered the end of the whole "affair" Graham Greene |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $200: "The Lone Ranger &" this man "Fistfight in Heaven" is the title story of a collection by Native American author Sherman Alexie Tonto |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $1000: "Kindred", about an African-American woman transported back to a plantation in antebellum Maryland, is a novel by this author (Octavia) Butler |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | "K"-9, -10 & -11 $2000: A nightmarish bureaucracy may be described by this adjective, from the name of a 20th century author Kafkaesque |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $1600: This author's "Middlemarch" includes a party hosted by Mr. Vincy on New Year's Day George Eliot |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $400: Many of the events of his novels were based on his own experiences as a 19th century sailor and whaler Melville |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $800: "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was originally written to raise money for his passage to the New World (Robert) Burns |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $1200: This novelist has sold an estimated 350 million books Stephen King |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $2000: This regular contributor to "The New Yorker" was known for her quips, but her writing is often melancholy Dorothy Parker |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $6,000 (Daily Double): This author based a 1962 novel on personal experience working in a hospital's psychiatric ward Ken Kesey |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Omni Parker House in Boston MA.) Arriving on November 19, 1867 for a U.S. reading tour, this author practiced "A Christmas Carol" in front of the mirror here, now named for him (Charles) Dickens |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $400: In 1993 this author came along with his first Alex Cross novel, "Along Came a Spider" James Patterson |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The author of this 1996 "Novel of Politics" was listed as anonymous Primary Colors |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $2000: "Fear of Fifty" was "A Midlife Memoir" by this "Fear of Flying" author Erica Jong |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $2000: Written at age 87, this prolific author's final book was "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Sidney Sheldon |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $1000: Flossie & Glossie were 2 "deer of much intelligence", casually chatting about "sledge" work with Santa in a tale by this "Oz" author Baum |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: A 2014 biographical novel about this author opens with his "Passage to India" aboard the SS City of Birmingham E.M. Forster |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $200: Fanny, who visits Mansfield Park, & hunky Edmund, whom she meets there Jane Austen |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $400: Unlikely allies Jack Ryan & Captain Marko Ramius Tom Clancy |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $600: "Fourth Grade Nothing" Peter Hatcher & Sally J. Freedman as herself Judy Blume |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $800: French folk Queen Margot & Athos (Alexander) Dumas |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $1000: Mississippians Caddy Compson & Thomas Sutpen Faulkner |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $1200: Played by Timothy Olyphant on "Justified", Raylan Givens appeared earlier in the short story "Fire in the Hole" by this author Elmore Leonard |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | NELLIE BLY $2,000 (Daily Double): While famously going around the world in 72 days, Bly met this author who told her how her route differed from Phileas Fogg's Jules Verne |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A CINDERELLA STORY $1600: Known for another children's lit reboot, this author sent up Cinderella with "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" (Gregory) Maguire |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A CINDERELLA STORY $2000: The best-known versions of the rags-to-royalty story are based on the one by this French fairy tale author in the 1600s Charles Perrault |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | CELEBRITY SUPERFANS $200: Stephen Colbert is such a fan of this author's work, he aired his concerns with Peter Jackson about the Elves of Mirkwood Tolkien |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $1000: This author set his play "The Night of the Iguana" at the Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio, Mexico Tennessee Williams |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $1200: As you might expect, this author's statue is relaxing at the bar in the El Floridita in Havana Hemingway |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $2000: The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels George Eliot |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $200: When the Book-of-the-Month Club asked about changing this novel's title, its author said, "Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that" Catcher in the Rye |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: This English liberal philosopher and author of two treatises on government helped inspire the Declaration of Independence John Locke |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES $800: This author of "Stranger in a Strange Land", a 1929 graduate (Robert) Heinlein |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $400: Only one title from each author could make the list; these 2 sisters represented the Bronte family at No. 10 & No. 21 Charlotte and Emily |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $600: This author made the list at No. 24 with his epic "The Stand" Stephen King |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $1000: Girl, she's the motivational speaker & bestselling author of works like "Girl, Wash Your Face" & "Girl, Stop Apologizing" Rachel Hollis |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: This author known for her gender-disparity test wrote the graphic novel memoir "Fun Home" (Alison) Bechdel |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | VISIONARIES $1600: With his nation in his name, this 18th c. Stockholm-born author of "Heaven & Hell" used his visions to interpret scripture (Emanuel) Swedenborg |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $800: This author wrote that Ozma's flag had 4 quadrants for the regions of Oz, with, of course, a green center (Frank) Baum |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $2000: In "Nostromo", this author describes the flag of Costaguana as red & yellow with 2 palm trees Joseph Conrad |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $1000: Joe falls for a Cuban revolutionary in "Live by Night" by this "Shutter Island" author, who normally does Massachusetts Dennis Lehane |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ Flannery O'Connor |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | PEN NAMES $2000: Since 1930, titles credited to this Nancy Drew author have included "The Bungalow Mystery" & more recently "Crime at the Chat Cafe" Carolyn Keene |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | KIDD STUFF $2000: This 3-named author went back to the 19th century in her novel "The Invention of Wings" Sue Monk Kidd |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA $200: The comma as we know it came to be around 1500, not by an author, but rather by one of these putting out Greek classics a printing press |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | GAME OF CLONES $1600: This author was able to revive the character Duncan Idaho when he introduced clones called ghola in "Dune Messiah" (Frank) Herbert |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $2000: The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness Daniel Defoe |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES $1600: First published anonymously, this author's "The Rape of the Lock" from 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative poem (Alexander) Pope |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film 12 Years a Slave |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $400: In the 2000s Doug Jones prosecuted 2 men for the 1963 church bombing in this city; he wrote "Bending Toward Justice" about it Birmingham |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $800: This Floridian's memoir is "An American Son"--of Mario & Oriales from Cuba Marco Rubio |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $1600: Jesse Helms' memoir "Here's Where I Stand" says he likes seeing others from this state succeed, like Clay Aiken on "American Idol" North Carolina |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was "The Hornet's Nest", his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South Jimmy Carter |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $2000: This Georgia state representative and candidate for governor has published several romance novels under the name Selena Montgomery Stacey Abrams |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | KURT VONNEGUT $2,800 (Daily Double): Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was the inspiration for this recurring Vonnegut character who also had a fishy name (Kilgore) Trout |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $2000: Dubbed "The Jewish Mark Twain" for his poignant tales, this author published "Tevye the Dairyman" in 1894 Sholem Aleichem |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ESSAYS $1600: This "Infinite Jest" author used the Maine lobster festival to discuss the morality of killing lobsters for eating pleasure David Foster Wallace |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $4,400 (Daily Double): The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 Herman Wouk |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | LITERARY NARRATORS $1200: Though he takes his own life in "The Sound and the Fury", Quentin Compson is back to narrate this author's "Absalom, Absalom!" Faulkner |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | NON-GENEVA CONVENTIONS $800: The Berne Convention protects these for the life of the author plus 50 years copyrights |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1200: Learning to count was never more fun than with this author's "Ten Apples Up On top!" Dr. Seuss |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $2000: British author Jeanette Winterson won a Whitbread Award for her first novel, called these "Are Not the Only Fruit" Oranges |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $400: This Jr. of NASCAR probably never figured to be a N.Y. Times bestselling author, but in 2018 he was "racing to the finish" Dale Earnhardt, Jr. |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion (Mark) Twain |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT $1000: Preserving outdoor America is the goal of the league named for this author of "The Compleat Angler" (Izaak) Walton |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE WORD $2000: Someone who knows what's good & bad is this "of taste"; author Petronius was declared to be one in Nero's court arbiter |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | SURNAMES $800: Reasonably enough, this last name of Canadian author Margaret refers to one who lives in or near a forest Atwood |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | SAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE $1600: This author's 1952 novel "Player Piano" deals with a man rebelling against a machine-filled dystopia (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LITERARY GROUPS $600: The Knickerbockers included William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper & this author who coined the term (Washington) Irving |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This "Vanity Fair" author quarreled with Dickens but was able to "Makepeace" with him (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | audible SUMMER READING $600: Tim Curry takes us on an adventure with a classic by this author
Let no one take it into his head before us to try and discover the center of the Earth! (Jules) Verne |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: 1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author (Richard) Wright |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $1000: This author's first popular novel was "Far From the Madding Crowd", which he initially published anonymously (Thomas) Hardy |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ANDREW DAVIES $400: Andrew Davies is known for "bonnet dramas", like his adaptation of this author's "Middlemarch" George Eliot |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ANDREW DAVIES $1600: Davies wrote most of the episodes of "Bleak House" 30 minutes long to evoke the way this author serialized it Dickens |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | 3-LETTER READING $1000: "The Kitchen God's Wife" author Amy Tan |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: Just 10 days before he became a dead soul, this author burned sequels he had written for his "Dead Souls" Nikolai Gogol |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | PRISON NICKNAMES $2000: The first print reference to "the joint" as prison was in this Beat author's 1953 novel "Junkie" William Burroughs |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | EVERY PITCHER TELLS A STORY $600: Last name of "Ya Gotta Believe!" author & World Series champ Tug, who had a country-singing son named Tim Tug McGraw |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | & SUCH $1200: A sci-fi author & Navy man, he founded the Church of Scientology (L. Ron) Hubbard |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | ON YOUTUBE $600: The Vlogbrothers have over 3 million subscribers; one brother is this bestselling author of Y.A. novels John Green |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A GEM OF A TALE $1200: The Silmarils in this author's "The Silmarillion" are 3 Middle-earth jewels Tolkien |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $1200: This author began what became "Sense and Sensibility" at about age 19 Jane Austen |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: A prize for American humor is named for this author of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mark Twain |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | A WRITER'S LIFE $400: While in Samoa, this author penned a sequel to "Kidnapped" called "David Balfour" (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | A WRITER'S LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): This author's close relationship with the Davies family was the subject of the film "Finding Neverland" James Barrie, or J.M. Barrie |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $2000: "Herzog" author's stringed instruments Bellow's cellos |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | GOES "MOO" $1000: Those aren't hippos, they are these creatures created by Finnish author Tove Jansson Moomins |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | A BIT OF LIT $1600: 1832, the year he died, could be called this German author's Dämmerung Goethe |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $800: In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri (Albert) Camus |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $2000: (Finger snap)--1800s author wrote a book about a kid who runs with pickpockets--so the gal in that book, the one who ends up dead Nancy |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $1000: In this author's "Brideshead Revisited", a father says of his son's univ. degree, "No use to me. Not much use to you either" Evelyn Waugh |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $200: This author introduced the Pevensie children in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" C.S. Lewis |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): The Karen neighborhood of Nairobi was once the home of this author Isak Dinesen, or Karen Blixen |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: How about those Gilbert sisters--memoirist Elizabeth & this author of kids' books like "Heaven is Paved with Oreos" Catherine Murdock |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | NON-POLITICAL PRESIDENTS $1600: This author & first president of the National Organization for Women is seen here on the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment (Betty) Friedan |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | SHOW $800: This bestselling Japanese author takes on America's clutter on the Netflix show "Tidying Up" (Marie) Kondo |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | WORLD OF LIT $800: "The House of the Spirits" is the first novel by this author of Chilean heritage (Isabel) Allende |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | HEY, YOU! $800: Hey, Lao-Tzu, you're considered the founder of this Chinese religious philosophy & the author of its principal text Daoism |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: With bleached skin & large eyes, the Morlocks are strange beasts from the future created by this author H.G. Wells |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $200: "Fire & Blood" is a novel from this author, set centuries before the events in "Game of Thrones" (George) Martin |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) To curate the best images, music & messages to put on the two golden records, time capsules of info about Earth the two Voyagers would send outside the solar system, the project created a committee headed by this astronomer & author (Carl) Sagan |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | INITIALLY YOURS $600: We're sure this author, noted for a 1951 classic, would not have liked to have his picture seen by millions of people J.D. Salinger |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | SCI-FI TECH $1600: In this author's "Dune" novels, the spice called melange helps navigators travel safely in space Frank Herbert |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $800: Uncredited author
(11) ghostwriter |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2000: He's a senator from Nebraska & the author of "Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal" Senator Ben Sasse |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GROSS CONFESSIONS $800: After an accident, this author learned his nurses had been told by their boss "in no uncertain terms, don't make any 'Misery' jokes" Stephen King |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GROSS CONFESSIONS $2000: This "In the Night Kitchen" author was childless, but would've preferred a daughter; "if I had a son, I'd leave him at the A & P" Maurice Sendak |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA.) The Eric Carle Museum displays "The Wolf and the Dog", one of the illustrations in Carle's book "Twelve Tales from" this ancient Greek author of fables Aesop |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! $1200: Here's a playful photo of this author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Truman) Capote |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $600: Each year the most searched-for author has been not a novelist but this man who penned "Letter from Birmingham Jail" MLK (Martin Luther King) |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | A "B"6 SHOT $1200: It's the printed name of the author of an accompanying news story byline |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $400: In the preface to this 1937 book, Tolkien explains that he is using "dwarves" instead of the preferred plural, "dwarfs" The Hobbit |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $800: This author of the Michael Bennett thrillers:
"If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft" James Patterson |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $1200: "I believe the road to hell is paved with" these modifying parts of speech, Stephen King said forcefully adverbs |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $1600: Late in life, this author clarified, "Sharks don't target human beings, & they certainly don't hold grudges" (Peter) Benchley |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $2000: This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land" (William) Faulkner |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU $1600: Tony Schwartz was Donald Trump's co-author on this 1987 book about negotiation The Art of the Deal |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | PAINT ME AS YOU SEE ME $400: The so-called "Chandos" portrait may have served as the basis for the engraving of this author in the First Folio William Shakespeare |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | WE WOULD HAVE ALSO ACCEPTED... $400: In addition to this pseudonym, for the author of "1984" we would accept Eric Blair--that's what his mum named him George Orwell |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $400: The life of the one & only Tookie de la Creme is detailed in "Modelland" by this host of "America's Next Top Model" Tyra Banks |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $800: This star was "Pitch Perfect" as an author, with her "Scrappy Little Nobody" hitting No. 1 on the Times' bestseller list Anna Kendrick |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $1200: "aretha in the blues dunes--Pluto with the high crack laugh" from 1971's "Tarantula" did not foretell a Nobel for this singer Bob Dylan |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $1600: The L.A. Times:
"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a novel about" him, "Sherlock Homes' brother (and it's good!)" Mycroft Holmes |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $2000: Let's just say this "Dead Man Walking" star has had better reviews for acting than his 2018 novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" Sean Penn |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $2000: The first novel by this "Burr" & "Lincoln" author is called "Williwaw", after a windstorm off Alaska (Gore) Vidal |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS $400: 1916's "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by this author tried to make sense of the madness of WWI; no time travel involved H.G. Wells |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $600: Shakespeare used "the game is afoot" but it's more associated with this author who put it in a 1904 story (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | RECENT BOOKS $600: This author of "The Kite Runner" wrote "Sea Prayer" in response to the current refugee crisis Khaled Hosseini |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | GREAT NICKNAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): In his heyday this author was "The Great Unknown", having published his "Waverley" novels anonymously Sir Walter Scott |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | IN MEMORIAM 2018 $1200: The book closed on this bestselling author in his trademark white suit, who died at 88 (Tom) Wolfe |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | FRANZ KAFKA $1200: Kafka was a great admirer of this author of "Madame Bovary", calling him one of his literary "blood relatives" (Gustave) Flaubert |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $400: This author, pretty much nailing the title early in the book: "'Now, do you still want the interview?' the vampire asked" (Anne) Rice |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | QUOTED IN THE OED $400: No. 16 in frequency, this author is quoted under "humbug" Dickens |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | VEGANS & VEGETARIANS $1600: He said, "It certainly seemed proper that the author of 'The Jungle' should be a vegetarian, so I became one" (Upton) Sinclair |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME $1000: This 19th century author & creator of Natty Bumppo got the call in 2015 James Fenimore Cooper |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SCIENCE FICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): As well as playing in the "Dune"s, this sci-fi author penned "The White Plague", about a mad scientist's quest for revenge Frank Herbert |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | SHE'S GOT AWAY $600: After her uncle Salvador was assassinated in Chile in 1973, she fled to Venezuela & later became an author Isabel Allende |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE $400: The revolutionary 1543 work "Fabrica" gave its author, Vesalius, the title "Father of Modern" this field anatomy |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | A VISIT TO SKANSEN $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Skansen Open-Air Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.) Skansen preserved the summerhouse from the estate of the great 18th century mystic & author Emanuel Swedenborg, who lived there when he wrote "Secrets of Heaven", a verse-by-verse commentary on these first two books of the Old Testament Genesis and Exodus |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $400: Irish author Brendan Behan was sentenced to 3 years in jail in 1940 for being a member of this outlawed group the IRA |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | THE NORMAN INVASION $1200: Like Henry VIII, this author of "The Naked and the Dead" had 6 wives Norman Mailer |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's a portrait of this author during her own age of innocence (Edith) Wharton |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | A FISTFUL OF HEROES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this army guy was born when his author showed proficiency at getting things from high shelves Jack Reacher |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | CENTS OF A WOMAN $400: The Royal Mint showed great "Cents & Sensibility" with a 2-pound silver commemorative coin of this author Jane Austen |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | THE BEER HUNTER $600: Nicknamed "The Beer Hunter," this late author of "Ultimate Beer" shared his name with a certain gloved singer Michael Jackson |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $2000: Despite the success of "Into Thin Air", this author called climbing Everest the biggest mistake of his life (Jon) Krakauer |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | "W"RITERS $1600: Jonathan Franzen eulogized this 3-named author as having "produced a thousand pages of world-class jest" David Foster Wallace |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $800: Kids' author Robert Lawrence (R.L.) Stine |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $800 (Daily Double): This 19th c. author has been looked at; later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009's "Dust and Shadow" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $1600: This African-American author's long-awaited second novel "Juneteenth" appeared in 1999 Ralph Ellison |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): After death, this horror author still talked about the Necronomicon in his novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Featured in several novels, a writer named Nathan Zuckerman was this author's fictional alter ego Philip Roth |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | RUDOLPH $1000: Rudolph Dirks vuz der author of der comic strip about these 2 brothers, Hans und Fritz the Katzenjammers |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND $1600: British slang meaning to steal, perhaps something from British author Mr. Hornby nick |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | FERRY TALES $7,000 (Daily Double): This author's "The Sea-Wolf" opens with a ferry accident in San Francisco Bay Jack London |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | FICTION OF THE 20-TEENS $1200: "The Martian" author Andy Weir returns to space with "Artemis", a story set on this nearer heavenly body the moon |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | FICTION OF THE 20-TEENS $1600: There's no author photo on 2013's "Bleeding Edge"; the last known clear photos of him are from the 1950s Thomas Pynchon |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THE WRITER SPEAKS $1000: This "Space Odyssey" author: "I predict that a new species could well appear on Earth--what I call Robo sapiens" Arthur C. Clarke |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $400: 16 letters:
Adjective for a novel based on the author's life, like Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" autobiographical |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | IN THEIR 90s $1200: His "Power of Positive Thinking" & "Positive Living" helped this minister & author live to the age of 95 (Norman Vincent) Peale |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | KIDS' BOOKS $1000: This "harebrained" English author also wrote about a rat in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" Beatrix Potter |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM $1600: This "Venerable" monk & author who died in 735 is known as "the father of English history" the Venerable Bede |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | JOUST $800: This author says in "Ivanhoe" that jousting tournaments were governed by "the chivalry of the age" (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | FICTIONAL BOOKS IN BOOKS $800: Hand me the "Encyclopedia Galactica", a work often referenced in this author's "Foundation" series (Isaac) Asimov |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | FICTIONAL BOOKS IN BOOKS $2000: A book of magic called the "Necronomicon" twists minds & souls in works by this author (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | EXOPHONES $400: Exophonic writers, like this Polish-born author of "Lord Jim", write in languages other than their native one Conrad |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | DRIVING ALEXIS $2000: Driving this author of "Democracy in America" may have been rough as he complained, "Trail infernal, carriage without springs" (Alexis) de Tocqueville |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey takes on the slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea in "The Commodore" by this author (Patrick) O'Brian |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | A BOOK BY ITS COVER $1000: Cosmic bestselling nonfiction from 1988 whose cover featured its author in a wheelchair A Brief History of Time |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $400: It was a "red letter" day for this author in 1846 as he became surveyor of the custom house in Salem, Mass. Hawthorne |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $800: In 2018 Celeste Ng was hot on the bestseller list with "Little" these "Everywhere" Little Fires Everywhere |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $1200: The title boy hits a foul ball that kills his friend's mom in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by this novelist John Irving |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $1600: On PBS, this family "in Corfu" depicts the youth of 2 authors, novelist Lawrence & nature writer Gerald the Durrells |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $2000: Though not into big government, she did take social security payments & medicare benefits under the name Ann O'Connor Ayn Rand |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Each year the Horror Writers Association presents awards named in honor of this "Dracula" author (Bram) Stoker |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | THIS & THAT $800: She's the financial whiz & best-selling author seen here (Suze) Orman |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | I GOT YOUR BOOK $1200: Known for "The Andromeda Strain", this late author had help from Richard Preston with 2011's "Micro" (Michael) Crichton |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders" Ambrose Bierce |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $1200: You know him as Dr. Gregory House, but he's also the author of the comic spy novel "The Gun Seller" Hugh Laurie |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | FANTASY & PARANORMAL LIT $2000: This author of "The Farthest Shore", part of the "Earthsea" series, passed over to the far shore herself in 2018 (Ursula) Le Guin |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS $200: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a portrait of him, its author James Joyce |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: Works by this author recently made into series include "Mr. Mercedes", "The Mist" & "11.22.63" Stephen King |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GERMAN WRITERS $1200: This author of "Steppenwolf" observed, "Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke" Hesse |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL $400: At 15 Alex moved to London to live with his grandfather, author of "Stammering, and Other Impediments of" this speech |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British author of "White Teeth" also wrote "Swing Time", a story of 2 childhood friends who dream of being dancers Zadie Smith |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This "Their Eyes Were Watching God" author wrote "Tell My Horse" after living in Haiti Zora Neale Hurston |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $1600: In 2012 this author of "Portnoy's Complaint" & "The Human Stain" announced his retirement from writing (Philip) Roth |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): In Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a street (not Main Street), is named for this author born there in 1885 Sinclair Lewis |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | YESTERCAREER $2000: Author/magistrate Henry Fielding professionalized this job when he started the Bow Street runners a policeman |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Here's an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable Victor Hugo |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $400: Arthur Hailey wrote "Hotel" & "Detective"; this similarly named author wrote "Roots" & "Queen" Alex Haley |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $1200: Subtract an "I" from the last name of the author of "Prime Witness" & you get this comedian & author of "Shopgirl" (Steve) Martin |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $2000: This "Match Game" panelist turned author based the town in "Fried Green Tomatoes..." on Irondale, Alabama Fannie Flagg |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | TV SHOW ENCYCLOPEDIAS & COMPANIONS $400: Author Steven Jay Rubin had the full cooperation of this creator's estate for his "Twilight Zone Encyclopedia" Rod Serling |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | 1958 $1600: After he was publicly vilified, this "Doctor Zhivago" author declined to accept his Nobel Prize Boris Pasternak |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | QUOTES OF VICTORY $400: This author famed for a 16th century manual for tyrants warned, "Previous victories are all canceled by present defeats" Machiavelli |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $2000: This author of "The Awakening" also produced "Regret", a tale about a woman caring for her neighbor's children (Kate) Chopin |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | 1-WORD PLAY TITLES $1200: Talking giant lizards show up in this "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" author's play "Seascape" Edward Albee |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $600: The iconic Geisel Library at UC San Diego houses a vast collection of items associated with this author Dr. Seuss |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TO THE FUTURE $2000: This "Cloud Atlas" author gave a new novel to Norway's Future Library but you can't read it until 2114 David Mitchell |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $400: This author's "Vampire Lestat" introduces himself & says, "I'm immortal. More or less" Anne Rice |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: "Always, Rachel" is a collection of letters by this author of "Silent Spring" (Rachel) Carson |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | BOOKS OF THE 1990s $600: The beautifully dangerous Lucky Santangelo takes on Hollywood in this author's novel "Lady Boss" Jackie Collins |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MALE AUTHORS $800: The photo of this author seems to have been taken far from the madding crowd Thomas Hardy |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | AUDIBLE RECENT FICTION $200: This mystery author put out what would turn out to be the last in a series in 2017
"I handed him a business card and said, 'Kinsey Millhone. I'm a local private investigator'..." (Sue) Grafton |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $600: In the 15th century Bible seen here, this book opens with an image of King David, said to be its author Psalms |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | WRITERS NOT WRITING $1600: After this "Gift of the Magi" author did time for embezzlement, he reinvented himself & changed his name O. Henry |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE SCHOOL YEAR $400: In 1825 this author graduated from Maine's Bowdoin College, where he gambled, partied & didn't get scarlet As (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $2000: "The Thin Man" by this author is about a former detective & his rich wife solving a murder amid high society Dashiell Hammett |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | STAND & DELIVER $800: In 1999 this author & Holocaust survivor warned that "indifference ...is more dangerous than anger and hatred" Elie Wiesel |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SHORT STORIES $1200: "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" & "The Laughing Man" are 2 of the "Nine Stories" put out by this author J.D. Salinger |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | COLLEGES OF OXFORD $2000: This author based Jordan College in the "His Dark Materials" series on his alma mater, Exeter College Philip Pullman |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | COLLEGES OF OXFORD $3,000 (Daily Double): This author attended Lincoln College & based spy George Smiley in part on Rector Vivian Green John le Carré |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | THESE ARE DAYS $800: Read Across America Day is held on March 2, the birthday of this beloved author & illustrator of kids' books Dr. Seuss |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $800: Fittingly for some readers, the OED's first citation for "boredom" is this author's "Bleak House" Dickens |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: The author of "The Leopard" was Giuseppe, prince of this, also the name of an island now a haven for hopeful migrants Lampedusa |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $800: This author's murder mystery "The Mousetrap" has been performed in London for 65 straight years Agatha Christie |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $400: In his later years, this author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was a recluse (J.D.) Salinger |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | PASS/FAIL $600: This "In Cold Blood" author said, "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" Truman Capote |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Aung San Suu Kyi is the author of "Letters from" not Myanmar but this other name Burma |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE FICTION SECTION $1000: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" earned this author a Pulitzer Prize Thornton Wilder |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $1600: This author who won in 2002 went on to write the bestselling novel "The Underground Railroad" Colson Whitehead |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $2000: In 1995 this Chicago author won for "The House on Mango Street" and other works Sandra Cisneros |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $1000: This author's story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is adapted as a stage play in the film "Birdman" Raymond Carver |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WESTERN NOVELS $2000: This prolific author wrote more than 50 Westerns, including "The Last of the Plainsmen" & "Trail Driver" Zane Grey |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | NOVELS ABOUT JESUS $1200: "The Gospel According to" this "Myra Breckinridge" author moves the crucifixion to the television age Gore Vidal |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $800: "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by this author introduced his alter-ego, a sci-fi writer (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | SENIOR MOMENTS $1000: In 2015 at age 84, this "Beloved" author published her 11th novel, "God Help the Child" (Toni) Morrison |
| #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 $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | LITERARY STYLES & MOVEMENTS $800: Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God", was part of this NYC movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | LITERARY STYLES & MOVEMENTS $1600: Put these 4 letters before "fiction" to get this style in which the author refers to the artificiality of the work itself meta |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | BIOGRAPHIES $2000: This author whose book inspired "Hamilton" had a new bio out in 2017, making some eager for the musical "Grant" Ron Chernow |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | BEN-HUR $1000: The first person whose first & last names appear onscreen is this author of the original novel General Lew Wallace |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | LITERARY L.A. $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles.) Living in Los Angeles when he wrote "Fahrenheit 451", this author took the title from the temperature at which paper burns (Ray) Bradbury |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | LITERARY L.A. $1200: In this author's "The Long Goodbye", Philip Marlowe is living on Yucca Ave. & drinking at Victor's Raymond Chandler |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | LITERARY L.A. $2000: Michael Connelly says this cop & "Hollywood Station" author "took crime fiction to a whole new level" Joseph Wambaugh |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | CHESS PIECES IN DISGUISE $1000: Author of "The Roman Hat Mystery" Ellery Queen |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WEIRD WORDS $1200: Author Christopher Corbett coined autotonsorialist, someone who does this himself or looks like he did cut his own hair |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $1600: "I have brains & almost all the rest of the world are fools", says Becky Sharp in this author's "Vanity Fair" Thackeray |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE BOOK'S ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $1,600 (Daily Double): "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" French |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | PICTURE THE WRITER $800: Here's this author of spy fiction, licensed to type Ian Fleming |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | PICTURE THE WRITER $1200: It was not the best of hair days for this great British author Dickens |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $1200: This Czech author's satirical plays like "Protest" used absurdist themes to denounce Communist rule Vaclav Havel |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $1600: This author of the absurdist plays "The Birthday Party" & "The Room" was awarded the Nobel Lit prize in 2005 Harold Pinter |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | BESTSELLERS $800: "Circling the Sun" fictionalizes the love triangle of Beryl Markham, Denys Finch Hatton & this author of "Out of Africa" Karen Blixen |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | A WRINKLE IN TIME $400: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) "Love may be stronger than all fears" is how the book is summed up by the American Library Association, which awarded this author the prestigious Newbery Medal Madeleine L'Engle |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 2004 this beloved author was honored on the stamp seen here Dr. Seuss |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | C.C. & ME $1600: This author & Graham Brown team up on the NUMA Files novels about deep-sea divers Clive Cussler |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | PRIME "TIME" $1000: 1988 bestseller that was followed by the same author's "The Universe in a Nutshell" A Brief History of Time |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: In 1881 a literary prize named for this "Eugene Onegin" author was established to honor Russian writers Pushkin |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $400: This author's "Billy Budd, Foretopman" has a Claggart clash that does not end well for either man Melville |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: James Corden voices Peter Rabbit in a 2018 film that's a very 21st century take on a work by this author Beatrix Potter |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: A book by this author begins, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. We're moving today" Judy Blume |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: One-word titles by this author include "Sula", "Jazz" & "Paradise" Toni Morrison |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She's the bestselling author of the novels "The Nightingale", "Home Front" & "Firefly Lane" Kristin Hannah |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $800: He's the author & very visible man seen here Ralph Ellison |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $400: "Kidnapped" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $400: This author left her familiar prairie settings for New Mexico in "Death Comes for the Archbishop" Willa Cather |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $800: "The Deerslayer" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $1600: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864 Henry David Thoreau |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $2000: "The Magician of Lublin" Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $3,000 (Daily Double): "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out" Louisa May Alcott |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This author of "My Sister's Keeper" & "Nineteen Minutes" says she writes about the things that keep her up at night Jodi Picoult |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | SERIAL KILLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Mistah Kurtz--he dead; in the April 1899 issue of Balckwood's Magazine thanks to this author (Joseph) Conrad |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | SERIAL KILLERS $2000: In the May 1, 1886 issue of Graphic, this author killed off Lucetta & her unborn child in "The Mayor of Casterbridge" Thomas Hardy |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | TARZAN $600: For $125,000, this author bought 550 acres in the San Fernando Valley; the area is now called Tarzana Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: Bartlett's quotes this author:
"Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday" Albert Camus |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | 21st CENTURY FICTION $400: David Lagercrantz wrote "The Girl in the Spider's Web", continuing the story of Lisbeth Salander, created by this author (Stieg) Larsson |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $400: The author of "Wife No. 19, or the Story of a Life in Bondage" had the satisfaction of outliving this Mormon by 40 years Brigham Young |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth" D.H. Lawrence |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $800: "Madame Bovary" provoked so much outrage it was banned & this author faced immorality charges Gustave Flaubert |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS $1600: In this author's "The Blind Assassin", Laura dies in Toronto on page 1 but leaves a novel, yes, "The Blind Assassin" Margaret Atwood |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS $2,500 (Daily Double): She created fictional mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, author of "The Affair of the Second Goldfish" Agatha Christie |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: She sang "Summer Nights" with Travolta before becoming an author of legal thrillers & "Calico Joe" Olivia Newton-John Grisham |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | PLAYWRONGS $800: "Stock Characters in Search of an Author" Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | FEARLESS GIRL $11,400 (Daily Double): A young woman from Chile moves to Calif. during the gold rush in "Daughter of Fortune" by this author Isabel Allende |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Kipling Sahib" details the author's birth in this country, being sent to England, hating it there & going back India |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $800: God bless us, every one who reads "The Man Who Invented Christmas", about this author Dickens |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 5 of Philip Nel's book about this author is "The Disneyfication of" him: "Faithful to Profit, One Hundred Percent?" Dr. Seuss |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $2000: The dead Leon, son of Kilgore Trout, recounts this author's 1985 "Galapagos" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $400: This author of the letter "J'accuse", which sparked the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, died of carbon monoxide poisoning (Émile) Zola |
| #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 $1000: (Hi, I'm Ellen Leyva with ABC7 Eyewitness News.) This southern California author has been especially successful with his Los Angeles-based quartet that includes "L.A. Confidential" & "The Black Dahlia" James Ellroy |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | "COMMON" KNOWLEDGE $1600: The author claimed that 3 months after publication in 1776, this pamphlet had sold 120,000 copies Common Sense |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | PUBLISHING $200: Money paid upfront to an author to write a book an advance |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | GULP FICTION $1600: Rex Pickett, author of this 2004 novel, really did once take a swig of wine from the spit bucket Sideways |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $1000: "The Hermit Author of Palo Alto" Herbert Hoover |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: This "Dune" author's first published sci-fi tale appeared in Startling Stories magazine in 1952 Frank Herbert |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: The preface to Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" was written by this lover & fellow author Anais Nin |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | WHERE'D YOU DISAPPEAR TO? $1200: This "Twelve Years a Slave" author left public view in 1857 but may have been working for the Underground Railroad (Solomon) Northup |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: A stamp collector herself, this "Atlas Shrugged" author appeared on a 1999 stamp (Ayn) Rand |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A permanent expatriate, this "Black Boy" author died in France in 1960 Richard Wright |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: "Go Tell It on the Mountain", about the 14-year-old son of a preacher, was this author's first novel (James) Baldwin |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $800: Cornelia Meigs' 1934 winning bio "Invincible Louisa" is subtitled "The Story of the Author of" this other book Little Women |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $800: Sci-fi author James Graham (J.G.) Ballard |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1000: Kids' author Pamela Lyndon (P.L.) Travers |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | EIGHTYSOMETHING $2000: This British Nobel Prize-winning author of The Golden Notebook was 88 when she published Alfred and Emily Doris Lessing |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | SCHOOLED! $800: Before getting cuckoo with his Merry Pranksters, this alliterative author walked like a duck at the Univ. of Oregon Ken Kesey |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess" Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: This British author famous for space travel speculation also wrote "Deep Range", in which man has conquered the sea (Arthur) Clarke |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: This sci-fi author's story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" became "Total Recall" on the big screen Philip K. Dick |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | ABSURDIST LIT $1200: Only a few of the works of this Czech author of "The Castle" were published while he was alive Kafka |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: This preacher, the brother of author Harriet, gave an oration at the raising of the flag over Fort Sumter at war's end Henry Ward Beecher |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | ABSURDIST LIT $1600: Tyrone's love life weirdly corresponds with V-2 rocket attacks in this author's "Gravity's Rainbow" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | ABSURDIST LIT $2000: A line in this French author's "Myth of Sisyphus", saying human life is absurd, gave the movement its name Camus |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $400: As Peyo, Belgian comic book author Pierre Culliford created this group of small blue humanoids who live in the forest Smurfs |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: The heroine Gigi is known by just one name, and so is this author, her creator Colette |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Speaker, author & school founder Booker T. Washington titled his autobiography "Up from" this slavery |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | JOURNALING JOURNEYERS $1200: The author of "Wild" chose her name by "scanning words that sounded good with Cheryl...nothing fit until" this one strayed |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | JOURNALING JOURNEYERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Sag Harbor on September 23, 1960, heading west across the U.S., and reaching Mississippi by December was this author with his dog; when he got back to New York, he got lost and had to ask for directions (John) Steinbeck |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $400: Son of Norwegian immigrants, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" author was born in Llandaff, Wales Roald Dahl |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1915, this author of Family Limitation was arrested for obscenity Margaret Sanger |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $1600: This "colorful" English author's works include "Brighton Rock" & "The Quiet American" Graham Greene |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $200: On April 21, 1910 reports of this author's death were not greatly exaggerated Mark Twain |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | LITERARY SPOILER ALERT! $400: In this author's novel "Presumed Innocent", a man acquitted of a brutal murder learns his wife really did it Scott Turow |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $800: "The Perks of Being" this by Steven Chbosky became an Emma Watson film & got itself banned The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $1000: In "Hell House" by this "I Am Legend" author, a team investigates a notorious haunted mansion with horrific results Richard Matheson |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | SAILING STORIES $1600: It's mutiny on the Caine in a 1951 work by this author Wouk |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $2000: "Be Cool" is this author's sequel to "Get Shorty" Elmore Leonard |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: Antoinette May's 2015 novel "The Determined Heart" is a fictionalized tale of this author & "Her Frankenstein" (Mary) Shelley |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | NOVELS $800: This author randomly cut & assembled pages of his text to create his "Naked Lunch" (William) Burroughs |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1600: This "Tales of the South Pacific" author's novel "The Source" is a tale of Israel from ancient times up to the 20th century (James) Michener |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WRITTEN IN 18-SOMETHING $400: This 1862 novel whose title translates to "The Wretched" made its author a lot of bread Les Misérables |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | 1917 -- 100 YEARS AGO $6,000 (Daily Double): This muckraking author's novel "King Coal" exposed abuses in the U.S. mining industry Upton Sinclair |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THIS IS "US" $800: Hop on, grab a seat & enjoy the reprinted works of your favorite author in this single volume omnibus |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $1600: The archetype of the hard-boiled detective, Sam Spade was created by this author & featured in "The Maltese Falcon" Dashiell Hammett |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $400: With "A Clash of Kings" & "A Storm of Swords", this author is a buccaneer favorite George R.R. Martin |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: This 1957 classic was written to see if its author "could rediscover something about Christmas" that he'd lost How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1950s, this well-traveled Danish author was a contender for a Nobel Prize Isak Dinesen |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $1200: This "Good Earth" author founded Welcome House, an adoption agency Pearl S. Buck |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $1600: This late author's mother, Sally Wallace, invented words like "greebles" that he used in his books David Foster Wallace |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: "Here I Am"--that's the 2016 novel by this "Everything Is Illuminated" author, & here he is (Jonathan Safran) Foer |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $400: Author Richard Matheson eats egg rolls & notes that he was born in the year of this cat &, fittingly, went to the U. of Missouri the tiger |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $2000: Even this punctuation-averse author of "Blood Meridian" admits to the "occasional comma" Cormac McCarthy |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This "White Fang" author's "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" was based in part on his 1912 voyage around Cape Horn Jack London |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1600: The curator of the Lahore Museum in the first chapter of "Kim" is based on this author's father, who once held the position Kipling |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | DEAD BUT STILL EARNING IN 2016 $400: You'd think this kids' author would not, could not make $20 million 25 years after his death, but he did Dr. Seuss |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $800: This author of "The Fountainhead" was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia Ayn Rand |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $1600: This bestselling romance author also writes futuristic crime novels as J.D. Robb Nora Roberts |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $2000: In the 1950s this prolific sci-fi author wrote a series of books for young adults using the name Paul French Asimov |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | LITERARY EDINBURGH $800: It's elementary! Here's this author who was born in Edinburgh (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $1200: Here's the catch: this author's "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man" was published after his 1999 death (Joseph) Heller |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author wrote that he "wept and laughed, and wept again" while creating "A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Look at the haunted eyes of this Russian author... why, he looks like one of the possessed Dostoevsky |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author known for such rags-to-riches stories as "Fame and Fortune" never quite attained riches himself Horatio Alger |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $800: In the satiric 1729 "A Modest Proposal", this author suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty Jonathan Swift |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $400: Jose Bautista went north to become Joey Bats, author of an iconic 2016 bat flip for this team the Toronto Blue Jays |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: Medals from the American Library Assn. include the Caldecott, Newbery & one named for this "Little House" author Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ROBOTS $1000: In "I, Robot", a sci-fi collection by this author, a robot becomes self-aware & begins to feel emotions (Isaac) Asimov |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: This author of "The Bluest Eye" was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor in 2010 Toni Morrison |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | ROAMIN' THROUGH ROMANIA $2000: This late, great author of the Holocaust-set "Night" was born in Romania (Elie) Wiesel |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Sink your teeth into this author's other novels like "The Witching Hour" & "The Vampire Armand" Anne Rice |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: This best-selling author's works, in part, explore mother-daughter relationships and the immigrant experience Amy Tan |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 18th century feminist author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" died after giving birth to Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | A FICTIONAL DEATH $400: This author said, "I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people"; he was far from finished with the shocking George R.R. Martin |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $1200: In this author's "The Portrait of a Lady", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go... poorly Henry James |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | JOHN DONNE $1600: The first biography of Donne was by this "Compleat Angler" author & appeared as a preface to Donne's "LXXX Sermons" Izaak Walton |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: Turns out hug-me-tight is a women's wool jacket; this author mentions one in "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | SLIDESHOW BOB $2000: Here we see this British author whose works include "Claudius the God" Robert Graves |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" author was also the first president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association Julia Ward Howe |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | IF THEY MARRIED $800: If Swedish actress Ekberg married the German author of "Death in Venice", she might still be lonely & say... Anita Mann |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | STRAIGHT OUTTA... $1000: Western Springs, Illinois: this author of "The Corrections" & 2015's "Purity" (Jonathan) Franzen |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: In 1990 Time magazine called this "Presumed Innocent" author the "Bard of the Litigious Age" Scott Turow |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: In 1984 a Presidential Medal of Freedom went to this author of "Hondo" & dozens of other Western novels Louis L'Amour |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Andre Maurois wrote a 1949 biography called "A la Recherche de" this other French author Proust |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | YOU'RE THE MAN! $2000: This author of "The Time Machine" is "The Man Who Invented Tomorrow" H.G. Wells |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $800: Ray Bradbury to this "Stranger in a Strange Land" author:
"Your influence on us all... cannot be measured" (Robert) Heinlein |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: "Quills" stars Geoffrey Rush as this irrepressible 18th century author during his days in an insane asylum the Marquis de Sade |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | KNOWN BY THEIR MIDDLE NAMES $2000: Here's the tale of this author & illustrator of children's books: she was given the first name Helen in England in 1866 Beatrix Potter |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | MARIE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) The act of folding shows your gratitude to the shirt, according to this author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up"'; a correctly folded shirt will stand on its side Marie Kondo |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $1600: This author became a monk but broke his vows to study medicine & pen his masterpiece "Gargantua and Pantagruel" Rabelais |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $2000: This author of "Lives of the Artists" has been credited with introducing the term "Renaissance" around 1550 Vasari |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $800: Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Lewis Carroll |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2016 BESTSELLERS $400: In the title of a No. 1 bestseller by this author, Sebastian Rudd was a "Rogue Lawyer" John Grisham |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | WORKING WOMEN $400: She's the author, commentator & media mogul seen here Arianna Huffington |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | LOOKS AREN'T EVERYTHING, BUT... $600: Next time you dream of Manderley, dream of this dreamy author of "Rebecca" Daphne du Maurier |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $600: Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight in a 19th century bestseller by this author (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: This author's official bio can be found at wimpykid.com (Jeff) Kinney |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $600: She is the author of "Insurgent", the second book in a series (Veronica) Roth |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $400: "Quixotic", meaning capricious or impulsive, goes back to a literary character created by this author Cervantes |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | I'M LIKE ON PAGE 1 $800: This author makes me feel like I'm there, talking of a Hobbit-hole with "a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel" Tolkien |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: Even the author of the book "Why" this Trojan War poet "Matters" says to think of him as a culture, not a person Homer |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR $200: "Salem's Lot"
(1975) Stephen King |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR $400: "The Martian"
(2011) Andy Weir |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR $600: "The King of Torts"
(2003) John Grisham |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR $800: "All the Pretty Horses"
(1992) Cormac McCarthy |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR $1000: "The Aquitaine Progression"
(1984) Robert Ludlum |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $800: After the Civil War this bestselling author spent time in the South & "Palmetto Leaves" is a book about her life in Florida Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $1600: This "Magic Mountain" author left Germany for the same L.A. street where O.J. Simpson later lived Thomas Mann |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $2000: Written while she lived in France, "Tender Buttons" is a 1914 collection of poems by this American author & art patron Gertrude Stein |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $400: Author Jeff Lindsay created this serial killer who worked by day as a blood spatter expert; Michael C. Hall played him Dexter |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HOW NOVEL $800: Therese Anne Fowler's "Z" is a novel of this Jazz Age woman & the glittering life she led with her author husband Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HOW NOVEL $1600: "Anne of the Island" from 1915 was the third novel by this author to feature young Anne Shirley Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | THRILLERS & MYSTERIES $1000: 2015's "The Nature of the Beast" is one of the Armand Gamache mysteries by this author with a coinage name Louise Penny |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | McPEOPLE $800: This author has written Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman David McCullough |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | THAT EXPLAINS IT $1000: The title "Tipping Point" in this author's book attempts to explain "how little things can make a big difference" (Malcolm) Gladwell |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES $2,500 (Daily Double): This attorney wrote 5 essays in the Federalist Papers & was the principal author of the New York State Constitution John Jay |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $800: Not John but Anne is the first name of this author of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (Anne) Tyler |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Call of the Wild" served 30 days in the Erie County Penitentiary for vagrancy Jack London |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | TRAILER PARK $400: A "Mansfield Park" trailer noted that this author valued the story above "Emma" & "Sense and Sensibility" Jane Austen |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $2000: This Russian's "An Actor Prepares" says, "In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play" Stanislavski |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | A POETIC CATEGORY $1200: (I'm Melissa Harris-Perry.) At Wake Forest University, I hold the presidential chair named for this author who delivered a poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration (Maya) Angelou |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | LITERARY LONDON $2000: After this author's 1722 "Journal of the Plague Year", he might have wanted to escape to a desert island (Daniel) Defoe |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $2000: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's "Carry Me, Carrie" & "Cover Of The Rolling Stone" were penned by this poet & author Shel Silverstein |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | LITERARY FACTS $1600: The eventual author of 40 books, James Michener didn't publish his first, these "Tales", until he was 40 Tales of the South Pacific |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | SPY FICTION $2000: This author's 2015 bestseller "The English Spy" is the 15th to feature the spy & assassin Gabriel Allon Daniel Silva |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | LAZARUS $1200: Taking place on a world where the planet is almost all water, "The Lazarus Effect" is a novel by this "Dune" author Frank Herbert |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: After a little hocus pocus, this author's signature turns into a self-portrait Kurt Vonnegut |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $800: This author of "The Big Sleep" didn't publish his first short story until he was 45 (Raymond) Chandler |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: To play this author in "The Hours", Nicole Kidman donned a fake nose Virginia Woolf |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: A manuscript by this "Good Earth" author was lost for 40 years, found in a storage unit in Texas & published in 2013 (Pearl) Buck |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: A towering tale of the old west, "Cimarron" by this "Show Boat" author was the No. 1 book of 1930 Edna Ferber |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | THE BOOK BIZ $200: A taxi driver, or an author who churns out books quickly for profit a hack |
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Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN
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"An Emmy Award-winning reporter for CNN and host of Inside Politics...
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Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor and editor-at-large from Elle.com
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"She is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University,...
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David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith?
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"An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
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Senator Al Franken, a U.S. senator from Minnesota
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"After a successful career as a comedy writer, author, and radio...
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Al Franken, an author and comedian from Lateline
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"His latest book hit the New York Times bestseller list in...
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Elissa Burr, a children's book author originally from Annandale, New Jersey
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Season 30 player (2014-05-02).
First name prounced like "eh-LEASE-ah".
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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S.E. Cupp, a political commentator from CNN, New York Daily News, and Glamour
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"She writes for the New York Daily News, is a contributor...
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Stephen Collins, from 7th Heaven
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"He's the star of the WB's 7th Heaven and the author...
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Eileen Dreyer, an author from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2014-10-30). Eileen mentioned also being a trauma nurse....
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Bruce Seymour, a writer from Piedmont, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! winner: $250,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Kate Horowitz, a science writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-10-02). Kate is published co-author of the coffee-table...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Ted Dorsey, an author and educator from Los Angeles, California
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Season 32 player (2016-03-03).
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Mark Lowenthal, a foreign policy analyst from Reston, Virginia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Melisa Paye-Mose, a proposal writer from Woodbine, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2009-11-16).
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Mark Lowenthal, a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Mark Lowenthal, an intelligence educator from Reston, Virginia
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"He won the 1988 Tournament of Champions while working for the...
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Bruce Seymour, a writer from Piedmont, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! winner: $250,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
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"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
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"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mark Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain and astronaut from Houston, Texas
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"He's a retired U.S. Navy captain who flew combat missions in...
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Sandra Bernhard, a comedienne from Los Angeles
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"Described as author, actress, humorist, singer and outrageous comedienne..." Playing for...
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Emma Span, a freelance sportswriter from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Emma is the author of 90% of...
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Ali Binazir, an author and hypnotherapist from Santa Monica, California
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Season 27 player (2011-01-18).
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Gavin Edwards, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 16 player (2000-06-19).
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida
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"This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
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Ray Albrektson, an associate professor and author from Redlands, California
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Season 6 player (1990-02-01).
Ray's web site detailing his Jeopardy! experience.
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Mary Ryan, an author and business owner from Seattle, Washington
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Season 14 1-time champion: $12,701.
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Neil Tesser, a jazz critic and author from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 16 player (2000-05-22).
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Andrew Rostan, a student originally from Boardman, Ohio
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Bob Harris, a writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $34,400. 2002 Million...
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Stephen King, a stellar name in bookstores and at the box office, the world's best-selling author from Bangor, Maine
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Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant (1995-11-06).
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Jenny Scharf, an author and physics teacher from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Season 17 player (2001-02-01).
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Michael Dupee, an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Mike Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
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"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Bob Harris, a political humorist originally from Cleveland, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $34,400. 2002 Million...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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