Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (106 results returned)

#19, aired 2023-05-24BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: Gilbert Keith were the given names of this author famous for his Father Brown detective stories Chesterton
#8291, aired 2020-11-30AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: "Thin Man" author Samuel Hammett Dashiell
#8291, aired 2020-11-30AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Novelist Edna Proulx Annie
#8291, aired 2020-11-30AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Western scribe Pearl Grey Zane
#8291, aired 2020-11-30AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Pulitzer winner Arch Whitehead Colson
#8291, aired 2020-11-30AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: The dramatic Johan Strindberg August
#8153, aired 2020-02-05AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $800: Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names Thoreau
#7797, aired 2018-07-03CONFUSING AUTHORS $2000: "Flight of the Intruder" writer Stephen & "Mr. Murder" writer Dean R. have these homophonic last names Coonts/Koontz
#7382, aired 2016-10-18AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $400: In 1809 he published "A History of New York" under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving
#7382, aired 2016-10-18AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $800: Not John but Anne is the first name of this author of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (Anne) Tyler
#7382, aired 2016-10-18AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $1200: Her haunting short story "The Lottery" first appeared in the New Yorker in 1948 (Shirley) Jackson
#7382, aired 2016-10-18AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $1600: This title of Stephen Carter's Cuban Missile Crisis thriller means a secret avenue of communication between nations Back Channel
#7382, aired 2016-10-18AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $2000: John Kennedy Toole took this novel title from a quote by Jonathan Swift A Confederacy of Dunces
#7120, aired 2015-07-24APOSTOLIC NAMES $800: Authors Pullman & Dick Philip
#6811, aired 2014-04-07AUTHORS' PLOTS $200: Grave markers for him & his wife in Oxford bear the names of 2 Middle-earth characters (J.R.R.) Tolkien
#6688, aired 2013-10-16AUTHORS' NAMES $400: Born Jozef Korzeniowski, he went to the "heart of darkness" as a writer in English (Joseph) Conrad
#6688, aired 2013-10-16AUTHORS' NAMES $800: Before this author of western novels dropped the first name Pearl, he made a lovely shade for tile flooring (Zane) Grey
#6688, aired 2013-10-16AUTHORS' NAMES $1200: Born Marguerite Johnson, the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" adopted this name as an exotic dancer Maya Angelou
#6688, aired 2013-10-16AUTHORS' NAMES $1600: Her uncle's life was saved by doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital, so her mother added it to this poet's name (Edna St. Vincent) Millay
#6688, aired 2013-10-16AUTHORS' NAMES $2000: All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name James Herriot
#6367, aired 2012-05-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: A Dublin-born dramatist: Bernard George Bernard Shaw
#6367, aired 2012-05-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: An adventurous Scotsman & Samoan: Louis (Robert Louis) Stevenson
#6367, aired 2012-05-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: He saved "Old Ironsides": Wendell Oliver Wendell Holmes
#6367, aired 2012-05-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Queen of bee chroniclers: Monk Sue Monk Kidd
#6367, aired 2012-05-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: A romantic rime-r: Taylor (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge
#5529, aired 2008-09-25AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Erle Gardner Stanley
#5529, aired 2008-09-25AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: T.S. Eliot Stearns
#5529, aired 2008-09-25AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: "The Moonstone" author William Collins Wilkie
#5529, aired 2008-09-25AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: William Thackeray Makepeace
#5529, aired 2008-09-25AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: C.S. Lewis Staples
#4864, aired 2005-11-03ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum" P.G. Wodehouse
#4344, aired 2003-06-19AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Joel Harris' middle name, it's the last name of detective writer Raymond Chandler
#4344, aired 2003-06-19AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Western novelist Francis Harte's middle name Bret
#4344, aired 2003-06-19AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: Edgar Masters' middle name Lee
#4344, aired 2003-06-19AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: O. Henry's real middle name Sidney
#4344, aired 2003-06-19AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $3,500 (Daily Double): Mark Twain's real middle name Langhorne
#4208, aired 2002-12-11PEN NAMES $2000: Ed McBain & he are credited as the authors of "Candyland"; so he actually wrote it by himself Evan Hunter
#4033, aired 2002-02-27AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: First & maiden names of the woman who married Robert Browning in 1846 Elizabeth Barrett
#4033, aired 2002-02-27AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $800: The maiden name of Laura Wilder, it's the last name of the family in her "Little House on the Prairie" Ingalls
#3753, aired 2000-12-20AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Jay Gatsby's creator (F.) Scott (Fitzgerald)
#3753, aired 2000-12-20AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: The creator of Professor Moriarty (Sir Arthur) Conan (Doyle)
#3753, aired 2000-12-20AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Edward Hyde's creator (Robert) Louis (Stevenson)
#3753, aired 2000-12-20AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Tarzan's creator (Edgar) Rice (Burroughs)
#3753, aired 2000-12-20AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): The creator of Uncas (James) Fenimore (Cooper)
#3626, aired 2000-05-15AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: His 2 middle names were Scott & Key F. Scott Fitzgerald
#3525, aired 1999-12-24AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $200: Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke Isak Dinesen
#3525, aired 1999-12-24AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $400: David John Moore Cornwell John le Carre
#3525, aired 1999-12-24AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $600: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Lewis Carroll
#3525, aired 1999-12-24AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $800: William Sydney Porter O. Henry
#3525, aired 1999-12-24AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $1000: Frederic Dannay & Manfred B. Lee Ellery Queen
#3398, aired 1999-05-19IT WAS THE '70s $600: The last names of bestselling authors Arthur & Alex were both pronounced this way Hailey/Haley
#2896, aired 1997-03-17BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Using their first names, it's the pen name of the husband & wife team who wrote "Deceptions" & "Pot Of Gold" Judith Michael
#2721, aired 1996-06-03AUTHORS $200: In his early years, this "Tom Sawyer" author used such pen names as Sergeant Fathom & Josh Mark Twain
#1648, aired 1991-10-30BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): This author of "Gorky Park" has also written under the pen names of Jake Logan & Martin Quinn Martin Cruz Smith
#1609, aired 1991-09-05BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Middle-earth creator whose middle names were Ronald & Reuel Tolkien
#1587, aired 1991-06-25TITLED NAMES $400: Authors Lee & Dannay used the pen name Barnaby Ross as well as this royal one Ellery Queen
#1231, aired 1990-01-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: William Maugham's middle name Somerset
#1231, aired 1990-01-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Edgar Masters' middle name Lee
#1231, aired 1990-01-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Francis Harte's middle name Bret
#1231, aired 1990-01-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Franklin Adams' middle name Pierce
#1231, aired 1990-01-01AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Clement Moore's middle name Clarke
#1195, aired 1989-11-10AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $200: Anne Lindbergh's maiden name Morrow
#1195, aired 1989-11-10AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: Julia Howe's Ward
#1195, aired 1989-11-10AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $600: Adela St. Johns' Rogers
#1195, aired 1989-11-10AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $800: Mary Rinehart's Roberts
#1195, aired 1989-11-10AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $1000: Mary Dodge's Mapes
#1055, aired 1989-03-17AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $200: Thomas Stearns Eliot
#1055, aired 1989-03-17AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $400: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
#1055, aired 1989-03-17AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $600: Elwyn Brooks White
#1055, aired 1989-03-17AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $800: James Matthew Barrie
#1055, aired 1989-03-17AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $1000: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
#1030, aired 1989-02-10AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Greenleaf John Greenleaf Whittier
#1030, aired 1989-02-10AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Christian Hans Christian Andersen
#1030, aired 1989-02-10AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Rice Edgar Rice Burroughs
#1030, aired 1989-02-10AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Bysshe Percy Shelley
#1030, aired 1989-02-10AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Kinnan Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#980, aired 1988-12-02AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $100: Saroyan & Wordsworth William
#980, aired 1988-12-02AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $200: Crane & Leacock Stephen
#980, aired 1988-12-02AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $300: Baudelaire & Lamb Charles
#980, aired 1988-12-02AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $400: Ruskin & Bunyan John
#980, aired 1988-12-02AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $500: Werfel & Kafka Franz
#932, aired 1988-09-27BIRD NAMES $200: Authors Hart or Stephen Cranes
#931, aired 1988-09-26AUTHORS $100: While many people shorten their last names, in 1700 this author lengthened his from "Foe" to this Daniel Defoe
#863, aired 1988-05-11AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Olvier Holmes' middle name Wendell
#863, aired 1988-05-11AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Edna Millay's middle name St. Vincent
#863, aired 1988-05-11AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: William Howells' middle name Dean
#863, aired 1988-05-11AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Gerard Hopkins' middle name Manley
#863, aired 1988-05-11AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Wilkie was this aurthor's middle name, not his first (William Wilkie) Collins
#845, aired 1988-04-15REFERENCE BOOKS $1,400 (Daily Double): The last names of the authors of "The People's Almanac", one is a form of the other Wallace & Wallechinsky
#697, aired 1987-09-22AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Hans Andersen's middle name Christian
#697, aired 1987-09-22AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: That of William Yeats Butler
#697, aired 1987-09-22AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Isaac Singer's Bashevis
#697, aired 1987-09-22AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Robert Warren's Penn
#697, aired 1987-09-22AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: That of Jorge Borges Luis
#678, aired 1987-07-15AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $100: Ralph Emerson's middle name Waldo
#678, aired 1987-07-15AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: James Cooper's Fenimore
#678, aired 1987-07-15AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $300: William Thackeray's middle name Makepeace
#678, aired 1987-07-15AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: T.S. Eliot's middle name Stearns
#678, aired 1987-07-15AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $500: Erich Remarque's middle name Maria
#670, aired 1987-07-03AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $100: Laura Wilder's maiden name Ingalls
#670, aired 1987-07-03AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $200: Helen Brown's maiden name Gurley
#670, aired 1987-07-03AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $300: Elizabeth Browning's maiden name Barrett
#670, aired 1987-07-03AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: Claire Luce's maiden name Booth
#670, aired 1987-07-03AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $500: Mary Rinehart's maiden name Roberts
#547, aired 1987-01-13WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Baroness Blixen never ran "out of" pen names using "Osceola" before & "Pierre Andrezel" after this one Isak Dinesen
#272, aired 1985-09-24WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Pen names "Currier, Ellis, & Acton Bell" used real initials of these three sisters the Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (4 results returned)

#8946, aired 2023-10-09WOMEN AUTHORS: In "A Room of One’s Own", the "four famous names" are Austen, 2 Brontës & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf’s own time George Eliot
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#4686, aired 2005-01-1020th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov
#956, aired 1988-10-31AUTHORS: One of this author's two middle names was Balfour Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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