| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm", about a matriarch & her children, has been called a Down Under version of this 1608 play King Lear |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This woman wrote the Holocaust-set children's book "Number the Stars" Lois Lowry |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Ransom Riggs blends fiction & photography in this Miss' "Home For Peculiar Children" Miss Peregrine |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $800: A clergyman known as "The Puff-Puff Parson" created this character, the basis of a series of books, DVDs, etc. Thomas the Tank Engine |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: This "Wizard of Oz" author wrote books for girls under the pen name Mrs. Edith van Dyne L(yman) Frank Baum |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author Thomas Hardy |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This author of the Uncle Remus stories also wrote "Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine" Joel Chandler Harris |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Twits" is the tale of a perfectly dreadful couple by this author of "James and the Giant Peach" Roald Dahl |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: He called his fifth Narnia novel "The Horse and His Boy" C.S. Lewis |
| #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 |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $500: This author famous for her Mary Poppins books passed away in 1996 P.L. Travers |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Theodor Geisel, better known by this pseudonym, wrote "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet" under the name Theo. LeSieg Dr. Seuss |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 7 years after creating Stuart Little, E.B. White spun this tale about a spider "Charlotte's Web" |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Johnny Gruelle created his stories about this pair of dolls to entertain his sickly daughter Marcella Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Moon Lady" was the first children's book by this author of "The Joy Luck Club" Amy Tan |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" wasn't quite as controversial as "The Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Illustrated by his daughter Amy, "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer" is this former president's 1st children's book Jimmy Carter |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" is Roald Dahl's sequel to this children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | LAURELS $100: An international award for authors & illustrators of children's books is name for this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #1967, aired 1993-03-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best known for her children's novel "A Wrinkle in" this Time |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This 1980 novel was the first book in Jean Auel's "Earth's Children" series Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: The adventures of Toad, Rat & Mole were featured in this 1908 Kenneth Grahame children's classic The Wind in the Willows |
