| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: This "little woman" was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 & died in Boston in 1888 (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Dublin born in 1882, he died in Zurich in 1941 (James) Joyce |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1200: "Go Tell It On The Mountain" that he was born in New York in 1924 & said adieu in France in 1987 James Baldwin |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce Hawthorne |
| #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 |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $200: Born in Connecticut in 1811, she went to that "cabin" in the sky July 1, 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $400: Born in "a little house in the big woods" of Wisconsin in 1867, died in Missouri in 1957 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $800: Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871, wrote naturally & died Dec. 28, 1945, "An American Tragedy" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Chicago in 1888, made "The Long Goodbye" & went to "The Big Sleep" on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: She was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama & died there February 19, 2016 Harper Lee |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: His story began in Salinas, California in 1902 & ended in New York in 1968 (John) Steinbeck |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849 Baltimore |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in England in 1920, he died there in 2016; "Watership Down" came in the middle Richard Adams |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013 Tom Clancy |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1932 in Boston, she died by her own hand in London in 1963 Sylvia Plath |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $600: This Nobel Prize winner's story began in Colombia in the 1920s & ended in Mexico City in 2014 (Gabriel García) Márquez |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1905, she died in capitalist New York in 1982 Ayn Rand |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome Sinclair Lewis |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born June 2, 1840 in England; went far from the madding crowd Jan. 11, 1928 Hardy |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City Isaac Asimov |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in 1913 in Algeria; died in a car accident in France in 1960 (Albert) Camus |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1917 in England;
died in 2008 (not 2001) in Sri Lanka (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $400: Born & died in New York (1819-1891), wrote a whale of a tale in between Herman Melville |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $800: Born September 1897 in Mississippi, was in Byhalia, Mississippi July 6, 1962 as he lay dying Faulkner |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1200: Born in Moscow November 11, 1821, gave "Notes From the Underground", headed underground February 9, 1881 Dostoyevsky |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1600: Let out his first "Howl" June 3, 1926, might have said, "I'm really Beat" April 5, 1997 (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 1894, became Hellman's man in 1930, case solved for good 1961 Dashiell Hammett |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend (Franklin) Pierce |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | AUTHORS $1000: This novelist was born in New Albany, Miss. & died 65 years later in Byhalia, near Oxford William Faulkner |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author of "The Group" was born in 1912 & orphaned in 1918 when her parents died in a flu epidemic Mary McCarthy |
