Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (43 results returned)
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023 Black Cake |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $400: "A milestone in the chronicling of the black experience", wrote Publishers Weekly about this author's "Beloved" Morrison |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Outside the Ansonia, Connecticut Public Library, a memorial fountain & horse trough honors this "Black Beauty" author Anna Sewell |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church Stendhal |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 HBO took us to the "Country" named for this author, as Black travelers face vile monsters like those in his fiction (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $1000: As well as penning "Black Panther" comics for Marvel, this African-Amer. writer topped the bestseller list with "The Water Dancer" (Ta-Nehisi) Coates |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Chimamanda Adichie had a 2014 bestseller with "We Should All Be" these, believers in women's equality feminists |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $800: 15 years after "Push", this gem of a writer gives voice to Precious' son in "The Kid" Sapphire |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Maryse Condé wrote the historical novel "I, Tituba, Black Witch of" this New England town Salem |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British author of "White Teeth" also wrote "Swing Time", a story of 2 childhood friends who dream of being dancers Zadie Smith |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This "Their Eyes Were Watching God" author wrote "Tell My Horse" after living in Haiti Zora Neale Hurston |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A permanent expatriate, this "Black Boy" author died in France in 1960 Richard Wright |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | WORLD AUTHORS $1600: "A Sport of Nature" is the story of a black activist's white wife in this, author Nadine Gordimer's homeland South Africa |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: The "pere" of this 19th c. French novelist was born out of wedlock to a marquis & a black slave woman of Santo Domingo (Alexandre) Dumas |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Audiotaped interviews of this black Muslim leader became Alex Haley's 1965 "Autobiography" of him Malcolm X |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In 1977 her "Song of Solomon" became the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection by a black author in 37 years Toni Morrison |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS $400: 2 affairs inspired Baudelaire's poem cycles titled "Black" & "White" this love goddess Venus |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: "Juneteenth", the long-awaited second novel by this black author, was published posthumously in 1999 Ralph Ellison |
| #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 |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): This author seen here was born Howard Allen O'Brien; her name was soon changed [Woman with fairly short black hair shown] Anne Rice |
| #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 |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | AUTHORS $200: She taught Black Studies at Jackson State College before she wrote "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #2905, aired 1997-03-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Silence of the Lambs" author Thomas Harris wrote this novel about a plot to blow up the Super Bowl Black Sunday |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The rise to power of the ruthless Julian Sorel is the subject of this colorful Stendhal book "The Red And The Black" |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | AUTHORS $200: In 1972 he founded the Kinte Foundation, a clearing house for black genealogy (Alex) Haley |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | AUTHORS $200: Jean Anouilh classified his comedies as "Rosy" & these as "Black" tragedies |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Though he later became a Swiss citizen, this "Steppenwolf" author was from the Black Forest Hermann Hesse |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AUTHORS $500: This author of "Black Beauty" was an invalid who needed a horse-drawn carriage to get around (Anna) Sewell |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | MODERN AUTHORS $600: She published "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women" in 1973, 10 years before she won a Pulitzer Prize Alice Walker |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $200: In 1972 he created the Kinte Foundation to store records that help trace Black "Roots" Alex Haley |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BLACK AUTHORS $400: Chester Hines was perhaps best known for his novel "Cotton Comes to" here Harlem |
| #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 |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | AUTHORS $200: He published "Black Spring" between "Tropic of Cancer" & "Tropic of Capricorn" Henry Miller |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | AUTHORS $1000: This Black diva who played Aida retold the story of Aida for young readers in a 1990 book Leontyne Price |
| #1544, aired 1991-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,700 (Daily Double): A walking tour through the Black Forest provided material for his book "A Tramp Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Author of 1987's "The Black Dahlia", he calls himself "the demon dog of American literature" James Ellroy |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | AUTHORS $200: This member of the Sitwell family wrote "I Live under a Black Sun", a novel about Jonathan Swift Edith |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The military & the clergy are represented by the 2 colors in the title of this book by Stendhal The Red and the Black |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Black author Julius Lester's new book retells animal folktales 1st collected in 1896 by this white author Joel Chandler Harris |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | LITERATURE $400: Tho not usually regarded as black authors, this former French pere & fils were of black heritage Dumas |
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