| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Before writing "The Hunger Games", she wrote for children's TV shows, including "Clarissa Explains It All" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm", about a matriarch & her children, has been called a Down Under version of this 1608 play King Lear |
| #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 |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This woman wrote the Holocaust-set children's book "Number the Stars" Lois Lowry |
| #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 |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $1200: In "Midnight's Children", No. 2 by Salman Rushdie, Saleem is born Aug. 15, 1947 in this country on its independence day India |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $400: Pregnant in 1959, Sylvia Plath wrote "The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit" for these people children |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She wrote for children's TV shows like "Clarissa Explains It All" before turning out "The Hunger Games" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Author of more than 200 works, Nora Roberts was the first inductee of the Hall of Fame for writers in this genre romance |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $1600: This Romanian-born French playwright also wrote for children, the series "Stories 1, 2, 3, 4" that he himself called "silly" (Eugène) Ionesco |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Ransom Riggs blends fiction & photography in this Miss' "Home For Peculiar Children" Miss Peregrine |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: "Just So Stories", his 1902 collection for children, was the only book he also illustrated Rudyard Kipling |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): She always kept rabbits on her farm, Hill Top, so children wouldn't be disappointed if they stopped for a visit Beatrix Potter |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | AUTHORS $400: This Garp creator also wrote the children's book "A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound" (John) Irving |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $800: Unlike her "Sex" book, her "English Roses" series was written for children Madonna |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well John Cheever |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $800: Charles Dickens gave this family 6 children, but only named 4 of them: Martha, Belinda, Peter & Tim the Cratchits |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | AMERICANA $1000: The Caldecott is for illustrators; authors get this medal for the most distinguished American children's book the Newbery |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $200: Cecil Bodker is the only Dane to win the coveted 51-year-old award named for this countryman Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: Walter R. Brooks created Ed the talking horse (later seen on TV) & Freddy this talking farm animal pig |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $600: Esther Forbes lived most of her life in this state & set her novel "Johnny Tremain" there Massachusetts |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $800: A clergyman known as "The Puff-Puff Parson" created this character, the basis of a series of books, DVDs, etc. Thomas the Tank Engine |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $1000: This author of "Goodnight Moon" was a "colorful" character who kept perishable foods in a well Margaret Wise Brown |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $200: This California first lady's "What's Heaven?" was inspired by the death of her grandmother, Rose Kennedy Maria Shriver |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: This "Wizard of Oz" author wrote books for girls under the pen name Mrs. Edith van Dyne L(yman) Frank Baum |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $600: In addition to the "Goosebumps" series, he's also written the "Fear Street" series for older kids R(obert) L(awrence) Stine |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $1000: Among her famous characters are Ramona Quimby & Henry Huggins Beverly Cleary |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $1,600 (Daily Double): His widow Felicity said he would have loved the new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie; he hated the old one Roald Dahl |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $600: In 2006 this first lady of hip-hop came out with her first children's book, "Queen of the Scene" Queen Latifah |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AUTHORS' CHILDREN $400: He wrote the somewhat autobiographical 1858 play "Le fils naturel", or "The Natural Son" Alexandre Dumas (the son) |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AUTHORS' CHILDREN $800: Scottie, daughter of this author, grew up to be a journalist & Washington socialite F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AUTHORS' CHILDREN $1200: Jack, son of this author, took his fly rod on a parachute jump into WWII occupied France, claiming it was an antenna Hemingway |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AUTHORS' CHILDREN $2000: First name of novelist Kingsley Amis' son, also a noted novelist Martin |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AUTHORS' CHILDREN $4,400 (Daily Double): As an assistant to this author, Samuel Beckett had to fight off the advances of his daughter Lucia James Joyce |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1949 this Nobel laureate founded Welcome House, an adoption agency specializing in Asian-American children Pearl Buck |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $200: Danny Kaye sang "Inchworm" & "Thumbelina" in a delightful musical about this children's author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: He told us that "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" & "Children Are from Heaven" John Gray |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In Frank Herbert titles, this word follows "Children of", "Heretics of" & "God Emperor of" "Dune" |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author Thomas Hardy |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This author of the Uncle Remus stories also wrote "Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine" Joel Chandler Harris |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Twits" is the tale of a perfectly dreadful couple by this author of "James and the Giant Peach" Roald Dahl |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: He called his fifth Narnia novel "The Horse and His Boy" C.S. Lewis |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $200: As of 1996 he had 5 of the 15 bestselling children's books ever, led by "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: He wrote "I, Claudius" for adults & "The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star" for children Robert Graves |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $100: He first wrote about Christopher Robin in the verse book "When We Were Very Young" A.A. Milne |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $200: He began his "Jabberwocky" poem, " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..." Lewis Carroll |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $300 (Daily Double): Though written in 1906, her story of "The Sly Old Cat" wasn't published until 1971 Beatrix Potter |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: Richard Adams originally told this rabbit tale to amuse his young daughters Watership Down |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $500: This author famous for her Mary Poppins books passed away in 1996 P.L. Travers |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: In 1990 this "Satanic Verses" author published the children's book "Haroun & the Sea of Stories" Salman Rushdie |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Theodor Geisel, better known by this pseudonym, wrote "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet" under the name Theo. LeSieg Dr. Seuss |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 7 years after creating Stuart Little, E.B. White spun this tale about a spider "Charlotte's Web" |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Johnny Gruelle created his stories about this pair of dolls to entertain his sickly daughter Marcella Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Moon Lady" was the first children's book by this author of "The Joy Luck Club" Amy Tan |
| #2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country" is a children's book by this creator of Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" wasn't quite as controversial as "The Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: His 1986 story "You're Only Old Once!" is "A Book for Obsolete Children" Dr. Seuss |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: After writing a book about Marilyn Monroe, this feminist established the Marilyn Monroe Children's Fund Gloria Steinem |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Illustrated by his daughter Amy, "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer" is this former president's 1st children's book Jimmy Carter |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" is Roald Dahl's sequel to this children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | AUTHORS $800: This prolific Russian-born author wrote sci-fi books for children under the pen name Paul French (Isaac) Asimov |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | LAURELS $100: An international award for authors & illustrators of children's books is name for this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Originally, he spun the tale of "The Hobbit" for his own children J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #2151, aired 1994-01-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: "The Dragon Fish" & "The Chinese Children Next Door" are among the books she wrote for children Pearl Buck |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: This author of "The Color Purple" also wrote a children's biography of Langston Hughes Alice Walker |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | AUTHORS $1000: Reb Tevye is the main character in several of his stories, including "Today's Children" Sholem Aleichem |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | AUTHORS $800: "The Moon Lady" is a children's book from this author of "The Joy Luck Club" (Amy) Tan |
| #1967, aired 1993-03-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best known for her children's novel "A Wrinkle in" this Time |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | CARD GAMES $400: A popular "Jeopardy!" category, or a children's game with pictures of writers on the cards Authors |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Her career as a children's book writer & illustrator effectively ended with her marriage in 1913 Beatrix Potter |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $100: Her 1967 novel "The Outsiders" is the best-selling children's paperback of all time S.E. Hinton |
| #1717, aired 1992-02-04 | AUTHORS $100: Invited to Charles Dickens' home for a 2-week visit, this Danish children's author stayed 5 Hans Christian Andersen |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This 1980 novel was the first book in Jean Auel's "Earth's Children" series Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: The adventures of Toad, Rat & Mole were featured in this 1908 Kenneth Grahame children's classic The Wind in the Willows |
| #1067, aired 1989-04-04 | AWARDS $300: The John Newbery Medal is given annually to authors in this field children's literature |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $1000: "If your children have never hated you, you've failed as a parent", she said in "This 'N That" Bette Davis |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | AUTHORS $800: He wrote "Rootabaga Stories" for children & "Chicago Poems" for adults Carl Sandburg |
| #615, aired 1987-04-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Margaret Sanger dedicated her book on birth control to this relative who had had 11 children her mother |
