| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He's the bestselling author of "Utopia Avenue" & "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $1600: This New Yorker regular & bestselling author of "Talking to Strangers" co-hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast Malcolm Gladwell |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $200: It's the first name shared by bestselling authors Hoffman, Walker & Munro Alice |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800: In the 1830s, before she was a bestselling author, she lived in Cincinnati, across from a slave-holding community Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | LITERARY LADIES $1200: It's the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver Barbara |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She's the bestselling author of the novels "The Nightingale", "Home Front" & "Firefly Lane" Kristin Hannah |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $2000: Having served in Britain's RAF may have helped Arthur Hailey write this bestselling 1968 thriller Airport |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $800: After the Civil War this bestselling author spent time in the South & "Palmetto Leaves" is a book about her life in Florida Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $200: "Pelican"
(1992) John Grisham |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $400: "Sematary"
(1983) Stephen King |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $600: "Jurassic"
(1990) Michael Crichton |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $800: "Moreau"
(1896) H.G. Wells |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $1000: "Augie"
(1953) Saul Bellow |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In a bestselling tale about high school, Bel Kaufman took us "Up the Down" this Staircase |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | BESTSELLERS $400: Last name of bestselling authors Catherine (the thriller "Split Second") & Ann ("How to Talk to a Liberal") Coulter |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The bestselling novel "Freedom" has put him back in Oprah's Book Club & good graces Jonathan Franzen |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: In the 1970s this former actor enjoyed success as the bestselling author of "The Other" & "Harvest Home" Thomas Tryon |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Married to bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, she's a bestselling author, too Faye Kellerman |
| #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 |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | IT WAS THE '70s $600: The last names of bestselling authors Arthur & Alex were both pronounced this way Hailey/Haley |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $200: As of 1996 he had 5 of the 15 bestselling children's books ever, led by "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $400: In "Worse Than He Says He Is", ex-wife Anicka writes of her life with this "Worm" Dennis Rodman |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $600: This author who gave us the giant reptiles of "Jurassic Park" stands 6'9" Michael Crichton |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $800: Before playing "Patriot Games", all his military experience was in ROTC at Loyola College in Baltimore Tom Clancy |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS $1000: Reviewers might have said "Someday all this will be" this author of "Exodus" & "Mila 18" Leon Uris |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | AUTHORS $800: From 1984 to 1990, this bestselling author served in the Mississippi legislature John Grisham |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | MODERN AUTHORS $1000: In 1993 this bestselling author turned singer for an album, "The Ballads of Madison County" (Robert James) Waller |
| #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 |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: In 1993 this bestselling author published her 10th novel, a suspense tale called "I'll Be Seeing You" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Publishers Weekly has dubbed this former middle school English teacher turned bestselling author "Storyteller of the Gods" Rick Riordan |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Now in her 70s, this author splits her time between Paris & San Francisco, often writing 20 to 22 hours a day on an old typewriter Danielle Steel |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS: A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters" Sue Grafton |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years James Patterson |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000 John Grisham |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him Michael Crichton |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: The main library at the University of Northern Colorado is named for this alumnus who wrote an epic of Colorado in 1974 James Michener (the novel was "Centennial") |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie" Sidney Sheldon |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | NONFICTION AUTHORS: First published in 1946, a book written by this man became the bestselling book in the U.S. after the Bible Dr. Benjamin Spock ("Baby and Child Care") |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: His bestselling first novel, published in 1846, was set in Polynesia Herman Melville ("Typee") |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase of 1956 when his horse collapsed Dick Francis |
