#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 $800: In old age Colette wrote this 1944 novella of a girl raised to be a courtesan, adapted as a movie musical Gigi |
#7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1200: In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
#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 |
#7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $2000: W. Somerset Maugham's childhood was material for the life of orphan Philip Carey in this 1915 novel Of Human Bondage |
#7140, aired 2015-10-02 | THAT'S HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This 1790 act gave authors exclusive control of their works for 14 years; violators were fined 50 cents per page the Copyright Act |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: The year he turned 32, William Blake published "Songs of" this; by 37 he "lost" his & made "Songs of Experience" Innocence |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: While writing "Tropic of Cancer" in Paris, he served as a proofreader for the French edition of the Chicago Tribune (Henry) Miller |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1200: Of the reaction to this novel, Upton Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" The Jungle |
#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 |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $5,000 (Daily Double): O, by the way, Willa Cather took the title of this 1913 novel from a Walt Whitman poem O Pioneers! |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $100: Best-known for her books about China, she published her "American Triptych" as John Sedges Pearl S. Buck |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: The century in which Boccaccio wrote the "Decameron", & all of his other works, too 14th century |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $300: Old Jolyon Forsyte is a wealthy tea merchant in "The Man of Property", a novel by this author John Galsworthy |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: "The Cinnamon Peeler" is a book of poems by this Ceylon-born author of "The English Patient" Michael Ondaatje |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $500: Ernest Feydeau wrote the 1858 novel "Fanny", & this son of his wrote French farces such as "A Flea In Her Ear" Georges Feydeau |
#3069, aired 1997-12-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $100: "Two Hussars" is a short story by this author of the very long novel "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy |
#3069, aired 1997-12-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: He prefaced chapters IX & X of his novel "The Pathfinder" with quotes from "As You Like It" James Fenimore Cooper |
#3069, aired 1997-12-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $300: Much of this "Vanity Fair" author's novel "Henry Esmond" takes place during the reign of Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray |
#3069, aired 1997-12-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: She fed us "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" in 1982 & gave us "Breathing Lessons" in 1988 Anne Tyler |
#3069, aired 1997-12-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $500: This Florentine author of "Il Principe" also wrote a history of Florence Niccolo Machiavelli |
#2968, aired 1997-06-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: According to the title of Flannery O'Connor's first book of short stories, this kind of "man is hard to find" A good man |
#2968, aired 1997-06-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This "Lolita" author remembers his childhood in St. Petersburg in his memoir "Speak, Memory" Vladimir Nabokov |
#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 |
#2968, aired 1997-06-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: She published "Exit To Eden" under the pen name Anne Rampling Anne Rice |
#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 |
#2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: This author of "The Brothers Karamazov" never finished his novel "Netochka Nezvanova" Fyodor Dostoevsky |
#2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: In 1941 she wrote "Little Town on the Prairie" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
#2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: This wonderful author of Oz sometimes wrote books for boys under the pen name Captain Hugh Fitzgerald L. Frank Baum |
#2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: This scandal that struck the Harding administration inspired Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" Teapot Dome |
#2938, aired 1997-05-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The first line of a Jane Austen novel tells us this heroine is "handsome, clever, and rich" Emma |
#2913, aired 1997-04-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: His 1904 horror novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars" is much less famous than his "Dracula" Bram Stoker |
#2913, aired 1997-04-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: "Invitation to a Beheading" is an anti-utopian novel by this author of "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov |
#2913, aired 1997-04-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: This author of "My Antonia" set her last novel, "Sapphira And The Slave Girl", in Virginia, her home state Willa Cather |
#2913, aired 1997-04-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: After moving to Europe, this New Yorker wrote his 1890 novel "The Tragic Muse" about the art world of Europe Henry James |
#2913, aired 1997-04-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis could have called this 1925 novel "Martin": that's the title physician's first name Arrowsmith |
#2876, aired 1997-02-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: His famous story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was originally published in Esquire in 1936 Ernest Hemingway |
#2876, aired 1997-02-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This "Kidnapped" author wrote about a real journey he made in "Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes" Robert Louis Stevenson |
#2876, aired 1997-02-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: This "Vanity Fair" author's novel "The Virginians", is a sequel to "Henry Esmond" William Makepeace Thackeray |
#2876, aired 1997-02-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: "Clowns' Houses" is a book of poetry by this sister of Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell Edith Sitwell |
#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 |
#2829, aired 1996-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $100: The Dict. of American Literary Characters lists "Great White Shark" from this 1974 Peter Benchley book Jaws |
#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 |
#2829, aired 1996-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This character from an 1865 work could vanish at will, with its grin the last part to disappear the Cheshire Cat |
#2829, aired 1996-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $500: Comedy writer Al Franken called his 1996 bestseller this man "Is a Big Fat Idiot" Rush Limbaugh |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: O yes, the title of this 1913 Willa Cather novel is taken from a poem by Walt Whitman "O Pioneers" |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: She published her last novel, "Atlas Shrugged" in 1957, when she was 52 Ayn Rand |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: "The Pygmies" & "The Pomegranate Seeds" are 2 of his "Tanglewood Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: He said his 1994 novel "A Son of the Circus" "Isn't about India. I don't know India. I was there only once" John Irving |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: She says her Gothic-style novels, like "Bellefleur", are "not exactly parodies" but "parodistic" Joyce Carol Oates |
#2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $200: Part II of her novel "O Pioneers!" is entitled "Neighboring Fields" Willa Cather |
#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 |
#2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: This "Giant" novelist wrote a series of stories about traveling petticoat sales lady Emma McChesney Edna Ferber |
#2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The poem "Ulalume" is his only important work of 1847, the year his child bride died Edgar Allan Poe |
#2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: This author of "The Manchurian Candidate" completed his 3rd novel, "Some Angry Angel", in Mexico City Richard Condon |