| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1200: Resting on the backs of four elephants atop a giant turtle, Discworld (Terry) Pratchett |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: When he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, J.D. Salinger is reported to have had 6 chapters of this work in his jacket The Catcher in the Rye |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges the Seabees |
| #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 |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $200: Born on the 4th of July, 1804 in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne had a scarlet birthstone: this one ruby |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: A group of Yanks & Aussies await the arrival of nuclear fallout from the Northern Hemisphere in this Nevil Shute novel On the Beach |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Elie) Wiesel |
| #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 |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): After the success of this classic about Francie Nolan & her impoverished New York family, Betty Smith co-wrote a musical based on it A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She recently took the 3 top spots on the paperback trade fiction list with "It Ends with Us", "It Starts with Us" & "Heart Bones" Colleen Hoover |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $800: This 1931 classic was rejected because Americans were "not interested in anything on China" The Good Earth |
| #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 $1600: The Harlem Renaissance could "Count" on this poet known for "The Ballad of the Brown Girl" (Countee) Cullen |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical first novel was called "Go Tell It on" this the Mountain |
| #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 |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $400: On July 4, 1862 he picnicked with Alice Liddell & her sisters, so it could have been "Edith" or "Lorina in Wonderland" Charles Dodgson (or Lewis Carroll) |
| #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 |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Kya Clark is known as "The Marsh Girl" in this Delia Owens novel that spent over 2 years on the bestsellers list Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In "Treasure Island ", this character signs on as the ship's cook, but his signature dish is piracy Long John Silver |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 19th century American's first novel, "Fanshawe", is set at Harley College based on his alma mater, Bowdoin College (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $2000: Pay your respects to the bronze Gerald & Lawrence Durrell on this Greek island where they spent much of their youth Corfu |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Published in 2021, his first novel "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is based on his film (Quentin) Tarantino |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: She set her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" on the Isle of Skye Virginia Woolf |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $400: His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year Twain |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $1600: Before writing 1905's "The House of Mirth", she collaborated on "The Decoration of Houses", a book of interior designs Edith Wharton |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She modeled 3 of the sisters in "Little Women" on her own siblings & Jo March after herself Alcott |
| #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 |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $1600: As a student at Stanford in 1959, he was part of an army experiment on mind-altering drugs & later, worked in a hospital psych ward (Ken) Kesey |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" is modeled on this author's "Howards End" Forster |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Christopher Isherwood is known for stories based on life in this European city in the 1930s; here's how he looked in that decade Berlin |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $800: In this third John Grisham thriller, 2 Supreme Court justices are killed & a journalist helps a law student on the run The Pelican Brief |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $800: As a young man, he wrote action novels under the name John Lange, but would go on to write of re-created dinosaurs Michael Crichton |
| #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 |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: James Jones is best remembered for this novel set in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor From Here to Eternity |
| #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 |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $800: C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday World War I |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $3,000 (Daily Double): One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago Jack Kerouac |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yentl creator's "Shadows on the Hudson" is about Jewish refugees in the aftermath of World War II Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #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 |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1870s she & her family lived in a little dugout house near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: In Sept. 2018 this Singapore-born man had 3 books in the top 5 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list Kevin Kwan |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: He's taken us on "A Walk in the Woods" & given us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" Bill Bryson |
| #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 |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $1600: His "The Innocents Abroad" was based on letters he wrote to newspapers as a traveling correspondent Mark Twain |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Based on true events, recent stories of the holocaust include "The Librarian of" & "The Tattooist of" this notorious place Auschwitz |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-American woman (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $800: His "The War on Normal People" explains why universal basic income is our future (Andrew) Yang |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" reports on these events that happened in those cities in 1968 national conventions (Democratic and Republican) |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $2000: John Fowles interrupts himself in this novel he wrote, commenting on the lives of the 1867 lovers at the heart of the action The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | ON THE RECENT BESTSELLER LIST $400: Each short story in Tom Hanks' first book involves this pre-computer age authors' tool a typewriter |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's this author in 1935, hard at work on "Gone With the Wind" (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #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 |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living Ethiopia |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She lived on public assistance between jobs as a French teacher, then wrote about a boy wizard, conjuring millions J.K. Rowling |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Her "Gone Girl" was turned into a movie & her debut novel "Sharp Objects" was turned into a 2018 limited series on HBO Gillian Flynn |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: The films "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley" were based on novels by her Patricia Highsmith |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's first inauguration (Maya) Angelou |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $800: (Kelly shows two writers on the monitor.) You might have confused playwright Arthur Miller & novelist Henry Miller on a walking tour--they had homes 500 feet apart in New York City's first commuter suburb, the heights of this borough Brooklyn |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This Theodore Dreiser novel in which the title woman becomes a Broadway star was partly based on one of his siblings Sister Carrie |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 2004 this beloved author was honored on the stamp seen here Dr. Seuss |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In her "Little Town on the Prairie", the main character turns 15 & is getting ready to teach school Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #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 |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: Gore Vidal was born at this military academy & drew on his WWII experiences for his first novel, "Williwaw" West Point |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: A stamp collector herself, this "Atlas Shrugged" author appeared on a 1999 stamp (Ayn) Rand |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Martha Finley wrote 28 novels about Elsie, a virtuous Southern girl who lives on these including the Oaks & Roselands plantations |
| #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 |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | CONCEPTS $800: This -ism says the Constitution isn't ever-evolving but should be applied based on what its authors intended originalism |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Her historical time travel "Outlander" series has been a worldwide hit both in book form & on TV Gabaldon |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | INVENTIONS $800: Early on, this aid to authors was piano-sized; around 1870 Christopher Sholes created a small one a typewriter |
| #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 |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This bestseller by Ta-Nehisi Coates is in the form of a letter to his son on race & life Between the World and Me |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This woman who wrote more than 1,700 poems was featured on a U.S. stamp in 1971 (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Her own "Age of Innocence" began on Jan. 24, 1862, when she was born into a wealthy & socially prominent New York family Edith Wharton |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Enid Bagnold wrote this 1935 tale of a young woman who wins a prestigious race on a horse she won in a raffle National Velvet |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: In "The Mill on the Floss", she wrote, "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history" George Eliot |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Hemingway's 1936 Esquire essay "On the Blue Water" formed the basis for this 1952 story The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $400: This 14th century "Tales" teller & poet penned the prose work "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" Chaucer |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Anthony Doerr won a 2015 Pulitzer for this novel that centers on a blind French girl & a young Nazi soldier All the Light We Cannot See |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $2000: This author based his "Wonder Boys" character Grady Tripp on his Univ. of Pittsburgh English professor Chuck Kinder Michael Chabon |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His relationship with his minister stepfather provided the basis for his 1953 novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $7,000 (Daily Double): She won a 1993 Grammy for her reading of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" Angelou |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $2000: Perhaps it was "An American Tragedy" that there was a ban on this author's semi-autobiographical "The 'Genius'" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $1000: The actual camper he used in "Travels with Charley" is on display at his National Center in California John Steinbeck |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: On occasion he humorously signed autographs "Dr. John Watson" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | THE ORIGINAL T-PAINE $1200: Paine noted, "when authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the" this the ridiculous |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Henry James once thought that this "Jungle Book" author "contained the seeds of an English Balzac" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: This horror master didn't sugarcoat it: "(J.K.) Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn" (Stephen) King |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald said this author's "inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy" Hemingway |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night" Mark Twain |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $400: On June 2, 2003 she awoke from a dream with the characters Edward & Isabella in mind Stephenie Meyer |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $600: As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $1600: "St, George and the Godfather" is Norman Mailer's take on the presidential campaign of this year 1972 |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $400: "When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'" (Joseph) Heller |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $800: "Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $1600: "I choose to be a... New Hampshire farmer with an income in cash of say a thousand (from...a publisher in New York City)" Robert Frost |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $2000: Not the modest type, in 1882 he told a U.S. Customs official, "I have nothing to declare except my genius" Oscar Wilde |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $5,000 (Daily Double): "Somewhere in Germany is a stream called the Vonne, that is the source of my curious name" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Set 15 years later, Terry McMillan's "Getting to Happy" checks back in on the ladies we last met "Waiting to" do this exhale |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: (Professor Henry Louis Gates delivers the clue.) This prolific social critic & author of "Race Matters" was my co-author on the 1996 book "The Future of the Race" Cornel West |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | I'LL TAKE YOUR CHARACTER $1200: With "Jane Fairfax", Joan Aiken is just one of the authors building on this woman's early 19th c. works (Jane) Austen |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: On Dec. 1, 1859 he was laid to rest at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Washington) Irving |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: At Walt Disney's request, in 1945 this "Brave New World" author did some preliminary work on "Alice in Wonderland" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Green riffed on a line from "Julius Caesar" for the title of this novel about 2 teens with cancer who fall in love The Fault In Our Stars |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: First name used by writer Kincaid; she was actually born on another Caribbean island, Antigua Jamaica |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This author of "The Winds of War" served on 2 minesweepers Herman Wouk |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: This Russian count's "Sevastopol sketches" were based on his army experiences during the Crimean War Leo Tolstoy |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | AUTHORS' FORMER JOBS $200: This "Catcher in the Rye" author wasn't always so reclusive; he was once part of the entertainment crew on a cruise ship Salinger |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Charles Dickens wrote that a visit by this "Fairy Tales" scribe had been "five weeks which seemed to the family ages" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: After reading this book, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" Leaves of Grass |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: When reviewing "Dawn" in the New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: In 1974, a decade after her suicide, James Dickey called her "the Judy Garland of American poetry" Sylvia Plath |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Conan Doyle wrote, "Where was the detective story until" this author "breathed the breath of life into it?" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Author Frances Hodgson Burnett based the long curls of this title pampered "Lord" on her son Vivian's Lord Fauntleroy |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" In Cold Blood |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | AUTHORS WITH MASS. APPEAL $4,000 (Daily Double): Before the rags-to-riches stories (& more than 100 books), his story began on Jan. 13, 1832 in Revere Horatio Alger |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: On her 1986 death, she was laid to rest next to Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris Simone de Beauvoir |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: He was a merchant seaman, then roamed around the U.S. before publishing "On the Road" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: She was in Haiti on a Guggenheim fellowship when she wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Zora Neale) Hurston |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: This "Treasure Island" author's "Silverado Squatters" was based on the journal he kept on his honeymoon Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #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 |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | AUTHORS IN HOLLYWOOD $4,000 (Daily Double): Named for the writer of the "Star-Spangled Banner", he spent some time on the "Gone With The Wind" script (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Her "To the Lighthouse" revolves around visits by the Ramsay family to its summer home on the Isle of Skye Virginia Woolf |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | AUTHORS $800: She followed up "Eat, Pray, Love" with a book on marriage called "Committed" (Elizabeth) Gilbert |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | AUTHORS $1200: On his 1950 death, this man who looked into the future was called "The Wintry Conscience of a Generation" George Orwell |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | AUTHORS $2000: A Pulitzer for "American Pastoral" is one of the honors bestowed on this Newarker (Philip) Roth |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $2000: "The Gun Seller" is a spy spoof by this comedic Brit who plays a dramatic doctor on TV (Hugh) Laurie |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | LATIN AUTHORS $800: Reinaldo Arenas left this country on the 1980 boatlift & published "Farewell to the Sea" in the U.S. Cuba |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $800: This author of "Lolita" wrote 18 scientific papers on entomology Nabokov |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | ARRESTING AUTHORS $1600: TMZ went on the literary beat in 2009 when this partner of Jessica Lange was busted for a DUI Sam Shepard |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | ARRESTING AUTHORS $2000: He was imprisoned after writing a letter critical of Stalin & wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" on his experiences Solzhenitsyn |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | ARTHUR-IAN AUTHORS $1600: He won a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Days", his book on the JFK presidency Schlesinger |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: She wrote about her early life in' "The Mill On The Floss" (George) Eliot |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: She made a cameo appearance in the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" based on her novel (Fannie) Flagg |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: In a sonnet Wordsworth told this "Paradise Lost" poet "Thou should'st be living at this hour" (John) Milton |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: In 1922 Virginia Woolf wrote of his "Ulysses", "Never have I read such tosh" (James) Joyce |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: Herman Melville wrote that this "is a sweet flower; may it flourish in every hedge" the Hawthorne |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1600: E.M. Forster said "Most of human life has to disappear" from the work of this "Portrait of a Lady" author (Henry) James |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: This author was also a friend of Shakespeare but called his pal Donne "the first poet in the world in some things" Ben Jonson |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: His short story "Rain" was inspired by a missionary & a prostitute who were passengers aboard his ship on a trip to Samoa (Somerset) Maugham |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state Maine |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | AUTHORS' HOMES $1200: You can visit the home of this poet and buddy of Wordsworth on Lime Street in the village of Nether Stowe Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: Study this language at Bennington & you may take the class on "Svevo & Tozzi"--2 20th century authors Italian |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: This novelist who wrote about gorillas in "Congo" is on the board of the Gorilla Foundation Michael Crichton |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | AUTHORS $400: In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel "Typee" was based on the experience Herman Melville |
| #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 |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800 (Daily Double): James Michener's "Centennial" centers on a fictional town in this state Colorado |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: His "A Moveable Feast" calls Fitzgerald's talent as natural as the pattern of the dust on a butterfly's wings Hemingway |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them" Mark Twain |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: T.S. Eliot wrote that this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author was "unhampered by any ideas" (Thomas) Hardy |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing "An Ideal Husband", G.B. Shaw said this fellow Irishman "has the property of making his critics dull" Oscar Wilde |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $2000: Byron on this poet: "Strange, the mind, that very fiery particle / Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article" Keats |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | -OLOGIES $800: A book with a mix of various authors writing on various topics an anthology |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | THE DONALD $2000: This fictional female sleuth & Donald Bain are listed as co-authors on the "Murder, She Wrote" series Jessica Fletcher |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: On publication in 1915, his "The Rainbow" was labeled obscene & banned, & unsold copies were destroyed D.H. Lawrence |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This "Invisible Man" author was working on a novel called "Juneteenth" when he died in 1994 Ellison |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Part one of this Carson McCullers novel says Frankie "belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world" The Member of the Wedding |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | WORLD AUTHORS $1200: Peer Gynt, the title character of his 1867 play, is based on a legendary Norwegian folk hero Ibsen |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH $400: As a child, Joseph Conrad pointed to the center of this continent on a map & said, "I shall go there" Africa |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH $800: Poet Gregory Corso went on the beat path after meeting this poet in a Greenwich Village bar in 1950 Allen Ginsberg |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | WORLD AUTHORS $400: Auguste Maquet & P.A. Fiorentino were collaborators on his classic novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" Dumas |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from St. Petersburg.) This author lived in St. Petersburg & one of his novels opens with Roskolnikov walking out on a summer night here Dostoyevsky |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the JFK Library & Museum.) The Kennedy Library has a fine collection of the papers & mementos of this writer, including an antelope that he shot on safari Hemingway |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | AUTHORS $1200: He based "The Moon and Sixpence" on the life of Gauguin, but his character was British Somerset Maugham |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400 (Daily Double): Willie Stark, a character in this Robert Penn Warren novel was modeled on Huey Long All the King's Men |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in the following passage
"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Edward Gibbon |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): This aging romantic lived to write an ode on the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge William Wordsworth |
| #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 |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | AUTHORS $400: Charles Dickens was laid to rest in a private ceremony on June 14, 1870 in the Poet's Corner of this church Westminster Abbey |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: Great Scott! Lady Stair's house in this Scottish capital boasts exhibits on great Scottish authors Edinburgh |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This tale for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was a revision of his earlier story "On the Blue Water" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This love story by Robert James Waller spent more than 3 years on the bestseller list The Bridges of Madison County |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | AUTHORS $600: His "Hike and the Aeroplane" of 1912 didn't exactly put him on the Main Street of success Sinclair Lewis |
| #4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Having no war experience of his own, he wrote "The Red Badge of Courage" based on information from reading Tolstoy Stephen Crane |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $1200: In 1995 a Pen/Faulkner Award fell upon David Guterson for his "Snow Falling on" these cedars |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES $800: He based the character of Sid Sawyer on his own brother Henry, but said Henry was "a very much finer" boy Mark Twain |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $400: Nicole Kidman (in a prosthetic nose) portrayed "The Hours" of this author Virginia Woolf |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $800: Meryl Streep played this author of "Shadows on the Grass" in 1985's "Out of Africa" Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $1200: Meryl Streep played this author of "The Orchid Thief" in 2002's "Adaptation" Susan Orlean |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $1600: "Cross Creek" is a biography of this author of "The Yearling" Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | AUTHORS ON FILM $2000: 1995's "Carrington" also portrays the life & loves of this Bloomsbury Group member who wrote "Eminent Victorians" Lytton Strachey |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | AUTHORS $400: In 1979 a play based on his novel "Fahrenheit 451" was produced in Los Angeles Ray Bradbury |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AUTHORS $800: This Scot is buried at Dryburgh Abbey near a view he so loved that his horses paused there on the way to his funeral Sir Walter Scott |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AUTHORS $1200: "Women in Love" with this author can find the ranch he lived on in the '20s near Taos, New Mexico D.H. Lawrence |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE OLD WEST $400: Authors held off on unfavorable comments on this man & his "Last Stand" until his wife died; she lasted until 1933 George Custer |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | AUTHORS $1200: Books based on his BBC Radio lectures during WWII include "The Screwtape Letters" & "Mere Christianity" C.S. Lewis |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: The movie "Yentl" was based on a story by him Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | WORLD OF AUTHORS $1600: A rat infestation takes its toll on a French town in this Algerian-born author's "The Plague" Albert Camus |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $600 (Daily Double): The heroine of her 1923 novel "A Lost Lady" is based on Mrs. Silas Garber, wife of a governor of Nebraska Willa Cather |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: (Jeff Probst in the Marquesas.) In 1888 this adventure author & his wife Fanny spent about three weeks on Nuku Hiva Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | FROM FRANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Famed Socialist Eugene V. Debs was named for 2 socially conscious French authors: Eugene Sue & this man Victor Hugo |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $400: She fictionalized her affair with Nelson Algren in "Les Mandarins", & based the heroine's husband on Sartre Simone de Beauvoir |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $800: This Bronte sister based the debauched Huntingdon in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" on her brother Branwell Anne Brontë |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | AUTHORS' 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 |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" that he finished the novel while in Switzerland in 1952 (James) Baldwin |
| #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 |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $400: In the movie "In Love & War", Chris O'Donnell played this American author wounded in Italy during WWI Hemingway |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $600: His relationship with his wife & with Anais Nin was the basis for the movie "Henry & June" Henry Miller |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $800: Bette Midler got all "dolled up" to play this '60s bestselling author in "Isn't She Great" Jacqueline Susann |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | AUTHORS ON FILM $1000: In "Julia", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover Dashiell Hammett |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which was based on his 1962 novel Ray Bradbury |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AUTHORS $1000: He based Mark Rampion in "Point Counter Point" on his friend D.H. Lawrence; Philip Quarles was based on himself Aldous Huxley |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $100: On Halloween one of her fan clubs hosts a "Gathering of the Coven" party in New Orleans Anne Rice |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: This "Scruples" author dishes the dirt on herself in "Sex and Shopping: Confessions of A Nice Jewish Girl" Judith Krantz |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Argentina's Manuel Puig gave us the "Kiss of" this "Woman"; I read about it on the "web" "Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | AUTHORS $200: Author-filmmaker Sherman Alexie, who is part Spokane Indian, grew up on a reservation in this state Washington |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Souls of Black Folk" is seen here on a U.S. stamp W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | AUTHORS $300: Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | AUTHORS $500: His "Screwtape Letters" & other works examining Christianity were first heard on the BBC or serialized in newspapers C.S. Lewis |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Mrs. Morel in "Sons and Lovers" is based in part on his own mom D.H. Lawrence |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | AUTHORS' AFFAIRS $200: The film "In Love and War" draws on the diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky, who got to know this author in WWI Ernest Hemingway |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | AUTHORS' AFFAIRS $400: He based Lara in "Dr. Zhivago" on his mistress Olga Ivinskaya Boris Pasternak |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $200: Among the items that have been sold on her website are a Coven party fan & Lestat cologne & wine Anne Rice |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $100: He's heard here "Ranting Again"
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, except, of course, for the Doc Martens & the purple hair; of course, that's my opinion, I could be wrong." Dennis Miller |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $200: This sitcom star reads his own "Dirty Jokes and Beer", subjects he might have learned about in Cleveland Drew Carey |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $300: "Comical" candidate heard here
"I've decided to take a humorous look at my campaign for president of the United States & my subsequent 144 days in office..." Al Franken |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | AUTHORS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: He tells you all about Fern, Wilbur & a certain spider when he reads his own "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | AUTHORS $400: His 1965 novel "Desolation Angels" was set just prior to "On the Road" Jack Kerouac |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: E.L. Doctorow's novel "The Book of Daniel" was based on the espionage trial of this couple Julius & Ethel Rosenberg |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | AUTHORS $1000: In 1997 he put his "Spenser" books on hold to introduce a new protagonist, Jesse Stone in "Night Passage" Robert Parker |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | AUTHORS' ODD JOBS $300: He worked on a ranch in the 1880s before writing short stories like "The Ransom of Red Chief" O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) |
| #3188, aired 1998-06-10 | AUTHORS & THEIR SLEUTHS $400: Her 1996 novel "The Keys to the Street" centers on young Mary Jago, not chief inspector Wexford Ruth Rendell |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $100: Samuel Clemens first used this pseudonym on February 3, 1863 in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise Mark Twain |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $500: The Gibbsville of many of his novels & short stories is based on his own hometown of Pottsville, Penn. John O'Hara |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $100: Born of French-Canadian parents, this "On the Road" author spoke only French until he was 6 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: This "Call of the Wild" author reported on the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspapers Jack London |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Jonathan Swift called this Crusoe creator "So...dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enduring him" Daniel Defoe |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: When she died, Edward Fitzgerald sniped, "No more Aurora Leighs, Thank God!", not counting the ways to love her Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $600: Amy Lowell wrote that this "Prufrock" poet "lives like a snail in his shell, pen protruding" T.S. Eliot |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: D.H. Lawrence said this writer of "The Bells" "sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1000: Ironically, it was Gertrude Stein who observed of this Irishman, "People like him because he is incomprehensible" James Joyce |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: As a war correspondant, this Tarzan creator witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Ogden Nash rhymed, "I'm fond of women, also wine, but not the song of" this Toklas pal Gertrude Stein |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: In 1922 this novelist said of Ezra Pound, "He's teaching me to write, and I'm teaching him to box" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $600: Longfellow said this "Pride And Prejudice" author's writings "Are a capital picture of real life" Jane Austen |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: To Robert Greene, Shakespeare was "An upstart" one of these black birds, "beautified with our feathers" Crow |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1000: Yeats described this "Arms And The Man" playwright as "An athiest who trembles in the haunted corridor" George Bernard Shaw |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: With the proceeds from "Animal Farm" he bought a home on the Hebridean island of Jura George Orwell |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: This English poet's "Ode On Indolence" wasn't published until after his death John Keats |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | AUTHORS $800: He based the title character of his 1914 novel "Penrod" in part on his nephews Booth Tarkington |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: In 1941 she wrote "Little Town on the Prairie" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | CLASSIC BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" was based on a real life murder case Theodore Dreiser |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | AUTHORS $800: His 1996 book "Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf" includes excerpts from his "Rabbit" novels John Updike |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | AUTHORS $400: Archibald MacLeish based his verse play "J.B." on this book of the Bible Job |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | AUTHORS $400: The Burr Oak, Iowa hotel in which this "Little House on the Prairie" author briefly lived is a museum Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | AUTHORS $500: This author of "She" was an advisor to the British government on agriculture H. Rider Haggard |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $200: Saul Bellow said this "Jazz Age" author "couldn't distinguish between innocence and social climbing" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Ambrose Bierce described this "Earnest" playwright as "That sovereign of insufferables" Oscar Wilde |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $600: This poet said of Ezra Pound, "mr. pound is humane, but not human" E.E. Cummings |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1931 issue of The New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1000: Sean O' Casey sniped that this author of "Jeeves" was "English literature's performing flea" P.G. Wodehouse |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: This Texan set her novella "Noon Wine" on a Texas dairy farm, not on a "Ship of Fools" Katherine Anne Porter |
| #2873, aired 1997-02-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $100: In a 1996 novel Jane Mendelsohn adopts the voice of this female aviator, lost on a desert island Amelia Earhart |
| #2873, aired 1997-02-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, she based her 1932 novel "Save Me The Waltz" on their life together Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Group" based the heroine of her book "The Company She Keeps" on herself Mary McCarthy |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: This "Age of Innocence" author launched her career with a how-to book on "The Decoration of Houses" Edith Wharton |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | AUTHORS $200: Shortly after "The Grapes of Wrath" was published, he embarked on an expedition to Mexico John Steinbeck |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | AUTHORS $800: She set "Death Comes For The Archbishop" in New Mexico, not on the Nebraska prairie Willa Cather |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: Nordhoff & Hall's 1934 "Men Against the Sea", the story of Bligh & his men in an open boat, was a sequel to this Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $300: Budd Schulberg based the alcoholic central character of "The Disenchanted" on this "Gatsby" author F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This author based the character Philboyd Studge in "Breakfast of Champions" on himself Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Both he & the publisher of his "Madame Bovary" were acquited on charges of immorality Gustauve Flaubert |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" that he wrote "The Amen Corner", a play about a female evangelist (James) Baldwin |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Mary Higgins Clark's recent book "Silent Night" takes place on the eve of this holiday Christmas |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | AUTHORS $200: He was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans Truman Capote |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: He modeled Sophie in "Sophie's Choice" on a woman he met while living in Brooklyn William Styron |
| #2749, aired 1996-07-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This 1983 Stephen King novel focused on a Plymouth Fury with a mind of its own Christine |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: The curator of the Lahore Museum in his novel "Kim" is based on his father Rudyard Kipling |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | INCARCERATED AUTHORS $400: Brendan Behan based the setting of "The Quare Fellow" on a prison in this capital where he'd done time Dublin |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Her mysteries include "Murder in Mesopotamia", "Murder at Hazelmoor" & "Murder on the Orient Express" Agatha Christie |
| #2666, aired 1996-03-18 | AUTHORS $800: He worked on "Remembrance of Things Past" for at least 12 years Proust |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $3,100 (Daily Double): This Plato dialogue in 10 books begins with a discussion on the nature of justice The Republic |
| #2598, aired 1995-12-13 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This author who wrote about a mutiny on the U.S.S. Caine served aboard the U.S.S. Zane Herman Wouk |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | AUTHORS $200: He based Tom Sawyer's half-brother Sid on his own younger brother Henry Mark Twain |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Sheila Burnford wrote about 2 dogs & one of these animals on an "Incredible Journey" a cat |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: "The Remains of the Day" author Kazuo Ishiguro was a grouse beater for this grandmother of Prince Charles the Queen Mother |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She wrote "The Mystery of the Blue Train" as well as "Murder on the Orient Express" Agatha Christie |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Dorothy Parker wrote some of the lyrics for this Leonard Bernstein musical based on a Voltaire novel Candide |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | AUTHORS $400: This "Lolita" author set his novel "Ada Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" in Amerussia on the planet Antiterra Nabokov |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "The Client" in this author's bestseller "The Chamber" is a former Klansman on Death Row (John) Grisham |
| #2425, aired 1995-03-03 | QUOTES ABOUT AUTHORS $800: Ezra Pound compared this creator of Father Brown, to "a vile scum on a pond" (G.K.) Chesterton |
| #2418, aired 1995-02-22 | AUTHORS $200: He traveled throughout Israel & read some 300 books on the subject before writing "Exodus" Leon Uris |
| #2418, aired 1995-02-22 | AUTHORS $800: Wounded during WWI, he later wrote about the war's horrors in "All Quiet on the Western Front" Remarque |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This Round Table wit collaborated with Elmer Rice on the 1924 play "Close Harmony" Dorothy Parker |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | U.S. AUTHORS $600: To get the right feel for "Show Boat", she lived & worked on one for a couple of months Edna Ferber |
| #2308, aired 1994-09-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His novel "The Firm" ranked No. 7 on the list of bestselling hardcover fiction books for 1991 (John) Grisham |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | AUTHORS $200: This author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was once an entertainer on a Caribbean cruise ship J.D. Salinger |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | AUTHORS $1,400 (Daily Double): This author best known for his detective novels co-wrote the screenplay for "Watch on the Rhine" Dashiell Hammett |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: A head-on collision changes the lives of 5 families in her 32nd bestseller, "Accident" Danielle Steel |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Margaret Landon, who wrote this book on which "The King and I" was based, died in 1993 at age 90 Anna and the King of Siam |
| #2289, aired 1994-07-14 | AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" was the last of this southerner's plays produced on Broadway Tennessee Williams |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | AUTHORS $600: He based the character of Buck Mulligan in "Ulysses" on Irish poet Oliver St. John Gogarty James Joyce |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: This author of "The Catcher in the Rye" landed on Utah Beach on D-Day J.D. Salinger |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: His experiences aboard 2 destroyer-minesweepers provided the background for "The Caine Mutiny" Herman Wouk |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | AUTHORS $200: He learned about "War and Peace" early on, having served in the Army during the Crimean War Tolstoy |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: His Sherlock Holmes was partly based on a teacher at Edinburgh University Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Fitzgerald ended this novel, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" The Great Gatsby |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | AUTHORS $800: Beth Henley was under 30 when this, her first play, was performed on Broadway in 1981 Crimes of the Heart |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $800: Glenda Jackson portrayed this British poet onstage & on film in "Stevie" Stevie Smith |
| #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 |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: In 1980 "The Shining" was 1 of 3 of his books on the N.Y. Times bestseller lists at the same time Stephen King |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: This "Deerslayer" author's first book, "Precaution", was written on a dare from his wife (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #2141, aired 1993-12-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover" is based on the love triangle of Wm. & Emma Hamilton & this man (Lord Horatio) Nelson |
| #2141, aired 1993-12-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: At her death, Olive Ann Burns was working on "Leaving Cold Sassy", the sequel to this novel Cold Sassy Tree |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her book "Death on the Nile" opens outside the Cataract Hotel at Aswan Agatha Christie |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In a recent bestseller, this TV & radio show host muses on "The Way Things Ought to Be" Rush Limbaugh |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: He worked on the screenplays of his stories "The Pearl" & "The Red Pony" John Steinbeck |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | AUTHORS $800: This creator of Perry Mason also served as a consultant on the "Perry Mason" television show Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | AUTHORS $400: R.W. Emerson was a champion of this man, whom he met 2 years before the raid on Harpers Ferry John Brown |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | AUTHORS $1000: Disney's 1967 film "The Gnome-Mobile" was based on a novel by this author of "The Jungle" Upton Sinclair |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): On her death in 1986, she was laid to rest next to Jean-Paul Sartre in Montparnasse Cemetery Simone de Beauvoir |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: She wrote several stories with husband F. Scott, & the novel "Save Me the Waltz" on her own Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: His novel "The Naked and the Dead" was based on war letters he wrote to his wife Norman Mailer |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Space" once served on NASA's Advisory Council Michener |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This 1954 William Golding novel is set on a deserted island after a nuclear war Lord of the Flies |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Margaret Truman's "Murder at the National Cathedral" opens in this city on a hot August morning Washington, D.C. |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Peter Straub & this master of horror were good friends long before they collaborated on "The Talisman" Stephen King |
| #2048, aired 1993-06-30 | MYTHOLOGY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This "I, Claudius" author later set his eye on "The Greek Myths" & "The Hebrew Myths" (Robert) Graves |
| #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 |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | AUTHORS $1000: This author of "From Here to Eternity" collaborated on the screenplay for "The Longest Day" James Jones |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: After writing about "Hollywood Wives", she turned her eye on "Hollywood Husbands" Jackie Collins |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: On a 1987 trip to China, this author of "The Joy Luck Club" met 2 of her half-sisters for the first time Amy Tan |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | AUTHORS $200: He based "The Naked and the Dead" on his experiences in the Philippines during WWII Norman Mailer |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | AUTHORS $600: This author of "Tropic of Cancer" passed away in pacific Palisades, California on June 7, 1980 (Henry) Miller |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | AUTHORS $1000: She won a 1941 N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award for her play "Watch on the Rhine" Lillian Hellman |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: The first sequel to this Astrid Lindgren book about a red-headed girl is "Pippi Goes On Board" Pippi Longstocking |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His second book, "Omoo", was based on his experiences as a mutineer in Polynesia in 1842 Herman Melville |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: E.M. Forster set this novel in the city of Chandrapore, on the banks of the Ganges A Passage to India |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | AUTHORS $600: This author of "Rich Man, Poor Man" began by writing "Andy Gump" & "Dick Tracy" on radio Irwin Shaw |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $200: He said the boy he based Huck Finn on grew up to become a justice of the peace in Montana Mark Twain |
| #1935, aired 1993-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: His 1983 novel "Poland" centers on the fictional village of Bukowo on the Vistula River Michener |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Of the 3 authors of the "Federalist Papers", the one who went on to become president James Madison |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: He sold sacksful of the Sackett series & made mondo bucks on "Hondo" Louis L'Amour |
| #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 |
| #1901, aired 1992-12-07 | AUTHORS $600: This author of "The Source" attended Swarthmore College on an athletic scholarship (James) Michener |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Erich Maria Remarque wrote "All Quiet on the Western Front" in this language German |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: Mr. Tulliver loses the family mill in this George Eliot novel The Mill on the Floss |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | AUTHORS $400: Pierre Boulle wrote this 1952 novel about British P.O.W.s building a bridge for the Japanese "The Bridge on/over the River Kwai" |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: In 1991 on cable television he introduced stories from his book "Welcome to the Monkey House" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #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 |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Many of the characters in his "War and Peace" were based on his own family & friends Tolstoy |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This John Updike novel set in Rhode Island centers on 3 mischievous women: Sukie, Jane & Alexandra The Witches of Eastwick |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | AUTHORS $600: George Orwell wrote this, his last & most famous novel, on the Inner Hebrides island of Jura 1984 |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | AUTHORS $200: Charlotte Bronte's novel "Villette" is based on her experiences in this Belgian capital Brussels |
| #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 |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He did extensive research on Transylvania at the British Museum before writing "Dracula" Bram Stoker |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | AUTHORS $600: This author was buried on July 6, 1961 at Ketchum, Idaho Ernest Hemingway |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $1000: While living in Paris, he published his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1989 this "Beloved" author became a professor of Creative Writing at Princeton Toni Morrison |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "Visions of Cody", published posthumously in 1972, was originally part of his "On the Road" novel Jack Kerouac |
| #1686, aired 1991-12-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Her novel "Heartburn" was based on her relationship with writer Carl Bernstein Nora Ephron |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of Albrecht Durer's etching, "Four Witches", appeared on the jacket of this John Updike novel The Witches of Eastwick |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Nevil Shute's novels "A Town Like Alice" & "On the Beach" are largely set in this country Australia |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $100: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road" Charles Kuralt |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | AUTHORS' NICKNAMES $600: "The Fourth Musketeer" Alexandre Dumas père |
| #1544, aired 1991-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her thoughts on her novel & the subsequent film appear in "Gone with the Wind Letters 1936-1949" (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | AUTHORS $400: His books include "Thank You, Jeeves", "Very Good, Jeeves" & "Carry On, Jeeves" P.G. Wodehouse |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name Washington Irving |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In 1990 actress Kathryn Leigh Scott published her 2nd book on this gothic soap & NBC revived the show in 1991 Dark Shadows |
| #1484, aired 1991-01-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Hitchcock's film "The Birds" was based on a story by this author of "Frenchman's Creek" (Daphne) du Maurier |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Peter Straub collaborated with this man on the wildly successful best-seller, "The Talisman" Stephen King |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: His "Tales of the South Pacific" were based on his experiences there in the Navy during WWII (James) Michener |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: 1927 Sinclair Lewis novel described as "a bitter satire on hypocrisy among the clergy" Elmer Gantry |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Ian Fleming's successor, his James Bond novels include "Scorpius" & "Role of Honour" (John) Gardner |
| #1420, aired 1990-11-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Now You Know: The Personal Odyssey of" this woman tells of her struggles during & after the 1988 campaign Kitty Dukakis |
| #1420, aired 1990-11-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This secretary of state under JFK & LBJ has collaborated with his son on "As I Saw It", a memoir Dean Rusk |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | AUTHORS $500: His novel "The Day of the Jackal" centered on a plot to kill de Gaulle (Frederick) Forsyth |
| #1385, aired 1990-09-14 | AUTHORS' RESTING PLACES $600: Her name on her tombstone at Green Hills Farm near Perkasie, Pennsylvania is in English & Chinese Pearl Buck |
| #1385, aired 1990-09-14 | AUTHORS' RESTING PLACES $2,700 (Daily Double): On December 24, 1968, some of his ashes were scattered into Whalers Bay from Point Lobos, California John Steinbeck |
| #3, aired 1990-06-30 | AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Eugene O'Neill work based on the "Oresteia" by Aeschylus Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: His 1st novel, "Go Tell It On The Mountain", was based on his early childhood in Harlem (James) Baldwin |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This novelist collaborated with Geo. S. Kaufman on such plays as "Dinner at Eight" & "Stage Door" Edna Ferber |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | FRENCH AUTHORS $600: This author of the novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is also credited with the screenplay Pierre Francois Boulle |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | AUTHORS $600: Sidney Lanier's novel "Tiger Lillies" was based on his experiences in this 19th century war U.S. Civil War |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Huck Finn appears in Chapter 3 of his autobiographical "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | AUTHORS $200: Roman Polanski's film "Tess" was based on his novel "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" Thomas Hardy |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | AUTHORS $800: "The Power of Myth" is a book based on his conversations on PBS with Joseph Campbell Bill Moyers |
| #1077, aired 1989-04-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Category on this board that's a title of a James Michener novel HAWAII |
| #1077, aired 1989-04-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1934 Agatha Christie novel opens on a winter's morning at a train station in Syria Murder on the Orient Express |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: The musical "Gigi" was based on a novel of the same name by this Frenchwoman Colette |
| #1057, aired 1989-03-21 | AUTHORS $400: Machiavelli was imprisoned & tortured on suspicion of plotting against this ruling family Medici |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His novel "Sophie's Choice" is based on the story of a woman he knew briefly in Brooklyn in 1947 (William) Styron |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: She writes columns on health for the N.Y. Times & Family Circle as well as books on nutrition Jane Brody |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: In 1858 he wrote a long poem on the longings of Miles Standish a long time ago Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Her 1st bestseller was "Don't Fall Off the Mountain" but later she went "Out on a Limb" Shirley MacLaine |
| #943, aired 1988-10-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: "Come on Down!!!" by Jefferson Graham covers this genre of TV programs game shows |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | AUTHORS $200: Mark Twain said this man "scored 114 offenses against literary art" on just 1 page of "The Deerslayer" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | AUTHORS $400: Poet whose wife died after her dress caught fire while he worked on "Tales of a Wayside Inn" Longfellow |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: First family member whose autobiography is "On the Outside Looking In" Michael Reagan |
| #884, aired 1988-06-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This autobiographical work published after Hemingway died was based on notebooks he kept in Paris A Moveable Feast |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $200: "Pretty Baby" whose book for coeds, "On Your Own", has a section called "B's Are OK Too!" Brooke Shields |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: Gene Fowler said writing is easy: "All you do is stare at" this "until drops of blood form on your forehead" the page (blank sheet of paper) |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Caldwell novel in which land set aside for the church keeps on being switched to different locations God's Little Acre |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | AUTHORS $500: A friend of poet John Donne, Izaak Walton is best known for this treatise on fishing & nature The Compleat Angler |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | AUTHORS $1000: Part of this autobiographical Mark Twain book was expanded & became a chapter in "Huck Finn" Life on the Mississippi |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | SOUTHERN AUTHORS $800: The play based on this, E. Caldwell's most famous novel, ran on Broadway for over 7 years Tobacco Road |
| #667, aired 1987-06-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: After walking on the moon in 1969, he wrote the book "Return to Earth" Buzz Aldrin |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORS $600: "Notes on the State of Virginia" Thomas Jefferson |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | CARDS $400: Other category on this board which is the title of a game that fits in this category Authors |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The darkest time of this British author's youth was his job of pasting labels on pots of stove blacking Dickens |
| #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 |
| #615, aired 1987-04-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Natives on her African coffee plantation believe she was writing a new Koran Isak Dinesen |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Author who sued New York Times in 1986 for not putting his "Exorcist" sequel on best seller list William Peter Blatty |
| #545, aired 1987-01-09 | SURPRISING AUTHORS $800: Before becoming British PM, he wrote an 1837 novel based on his own affair with a married woman Benjamin Disraeli |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | AUTHORS $1000: "I know for a fact there is life after death," said this author of "On Death & Dying" Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
| #515, aired 1986-11-28 | AUTHORS $1000: In 1831, having worked on it for over 58 years, Goethe finally completed this, his masterpiece Faust |
| #511, aired 1986-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Called the most widely read Polish novel ever, it's based on life of early Christians in Rome Quo Vadis |
| #463, aired 1986-09-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $500: Frances H. Burnett based this "little" hero in long curls, velvet & lace on her own son, Vivian Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #436, aired 1986-05-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: Despite its title, the only "picture" in this 1951 Ray Bradbury book was on the cover The Illustrated Man |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $900 (Daily Double): 3 unauthorized bios of this singer placed 3rd, 5th, & 6th, on a March 18, 1984 N.Y. Times best seller list Michael Jackson |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Critics called this character 1st introduced in "Life on the Mississippi", "a noble savage" Huckleberry Finn |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: "A Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Cliff & Elizabeth Taylor was based on this Theodore Dreiser classic An American Tragedy |
| #272, aired 1985-09-24 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: Jessamyn West's books like "The Friendly Persuasion" center on this religion Quakers (Society of Friends) |
| #90, aired 1985-01-11 | AUTHORS $200: He based Robinson Crusoe on real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk (Daniel) Defoe |
