| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: This playwright was born in March 1828 in Skien, a small lumbering town of Norway Ibsen |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: He was born in "The Jungle" of Baltimore in 1878 (Upton) Sinclair |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1200: Salinas, California (east of... Frisco) was the birthplace of this author, who often referred to it in his work Steinbeck |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1,500 (Daily Double): He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871 Theodore Dreiser |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $2000: This existentialist came into being (not nothingness) June 21, 1905 in Paris (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1200: The "Catch" is that this satirical writer was born in Brooklyn in 1923 (not '22) Joseph Heller |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1600: He was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but soon moved with his parents to Oxford, Mississippi Faulkner |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: When he was born in Jamestown, North Dakota in 1908, his family spelled their last name LaMoore Louis L'Amour |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: This author of "Silent Spring" was born in the springtime in Springdale, Penn. & died in Silver Spring, Maryland Rachel Carson |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $600: John Hersey was born in this Asian country while his parents were missionaries there China |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: This beloved author of the "Uncle Remus" stories was born in Eatonton, Ga. on Dec. 9, 1848 Joel Chandler Harris |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: This Frenchman was born in Algeria, the setting for his famous 1942 novel "The Stranger" Albert Camus |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: He was from St. Mary's County, Maryland, but set Sam Spade's office in San Francisco Dashiell Hammett |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: A Philadelphian by birth, she wrote about "Coming of Age in Samoa" Margaret Mead |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: Her father was a Hungarian immigrant & this "Show Boat" author was a gal from Kalamazoo Edna Ferber |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Though he later became a Swiss citizen, this "Steppenwolf" author was from the Black Forest Hermann Hesse |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): Theodore Dreiser was born in this Indiana city, presumably on "high ground" Terre Haute |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, not in Never-Never-Land (James) Barrie |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: You can visit the cottage near Dorchester where this author was born "Far From the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $600: Norman Mailer comes from this New Jersey city that has the same name as Miss Kitty's saloon on "Gunsmoke" Long Branch |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: John Irving's hometown is Exeter in this state & he attended Phillips Exeter Academy there New Hampshire |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Nobel Prize vvinner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a native of this country, where he lives in Cartagena Colombia |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: Ray Bradbury claims he "remembers all", & that includes his birth in Waukegan in this state Illinois |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: Iris Murdoch set her novel "The Red and the Green" in this Irish capital, her birthplace Dublin |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $600: In 1906 Richard Llewellyn, who wrote "How Green Was My Valley", was born in St. David's in this country Wales |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: Flannery O'Connor was born in this city, Georgia's major seaport, in 1925 Savannah |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Born in Calcutta, this "Vanity Fair" author was sent to live in England after his father died Thackeray |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: She was born in Pepin, Wisconsin in 1867, presumably in a "little house" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: Pat Conroy was born in this city in 1945, Margaret Mitchell, in 1900 Atlanta |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $600: In 1899 H.L. Mencken became a reporter in this city, his hometown Baltimore |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: He hails from Reading, Pennsylvania, not from "Gorky Park" Martin Cruz Smith |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Pierre Corneille's birthplace in this city where Joan of Arc was killed is now a museum Rouen, France |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $100: He was born in NYC on May 8, 1940; we assume he opened his "Jaws" and cried Peter Benchley |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: A hotel was named for O. Henry in his hometown, Greensboro, in this state North Carolina |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $300: His "Remembrance of Things Past" might have included his birth in Paris in 1871 (Marcel) Proust |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: Alex Haley's roots go back to this city, the home of Cornell University Ithaca |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $500: This native of Hartford, Connecticut is married to Sacramento-born Joan Didion John Gregory Dunne |
