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Mark Twain 30 Ernest Hemingway 30 Agatha Christie 28 William Faulkner 26 Charles Dickens 24 Stephen King 23 Anne Rice 22 Rudyard Kipling 22 John Steinbeck 19 Jane Austen 18 Pearl Buck 18 Toni Morrison 17 Virginia Woolf 17 Dashiell Hammett 16 Leo Tolstoy 16 Herman Melville 16 Margaret Mitchell 15 John Grisham 15 Willa Cather 15 Harriet Beecher Stowe 15 Louisa May Alcott 15 James Joyce 15 Aldous Huxley 15 Dorothy Parker 14 Ayn Rand 14 Edith Wharton 14 Isak Dinesen 14 Sinclair Lewis 14 Robert Louis Stevenson 14 F. Scott Fitzgerald 14 Alice Walker 14 J.D. Salinger 14 D.H. Lawrence 13 Thomas Hardy 13 Jules Verne 13 Hans Christian Andersen 13 Ian Fleming 13 Laura Ingalls Wilder 12 Jack London 12 H.G. Wells 12 George Sand 12 Michael Crichton 12 Harper Lee 12 Gertrude Stein 12 George Eliot 12 Edgar Rice Burroughs 12 Nathaniel Hawthorne 12 J.R.R. Tolkien 12 Lewis Carroll 11 George Orwell 11 Ken Kesey 11 Henry David Thoreau 11 Vladimir Nabokov 11 J.K. Rowling 10 Graham Greene 10 Joseph Heller 10 Isabel Allende 10 Oscar Wilde 10 Edgar Allan Poe 10 Henry James 10 Daniel Defoe 10 Norman Mailer 9 Judith Krantz 9 Edna Ferber 9 Dr. Seuss 9 Beatrix Potter 9 Washington Irving 9 Somerset Maugham 9 Roald Dahl 9 Kurt Vonnegut 9 Jonathan Swift 9 Amy Tan 9 Evelyn Waugh 9 Miguel de Cervantes 9 Upton Sinclair 9 Jackie Collins 9 Gustave Flaubert 9 Alexandre Dumas 9 Louis L'Amour 8 Gore Vidal 8 Erle Stanley Gardner 8 Ray Bradbury 8 Philip Roth 8 Herman Wouk 8 Geoffrey Chaucer 8 Albert Camus 8 William Golding 8 Marcel Proust 8 Franz Kafka 8 E.B. White 8

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Anne Rice 22x 13.6% stumper $645 avg J:5 DJ:17

J $100 2001 On Halloween one of her fan clubs hosts a "Gathering of the Coven" party in New Orleans

DJ $600 2001 Anne Rampling & A.N. Roquelaure "chronicle" her pen names

J $1,000 2026 Howard is the original first name of this author of supernatural novels; she used the pen name A.N. Roquelaure for her erotica

Leo Tolstoy 16x 13.3% stumper $540 avg J:5 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $100 1997 "Two Hussars" is a short story by this author of the very long novel "War and Peace"

DJ $500 DD 1994 This count participated in the Crimean War siege of Sevastopol & later wrote about it

DJ $1,200 2012 This Russian count's "Sevastopol Sketches" were based on his army experiences during the Crimean War

Margaret Mitchell 15x 7.1% stumper $336 avg J:4 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $100 1997 Her recently-discovered work "Lost Laysen" was published in 1996, the 60th anniv. of "Gone With The Wind"

DJ $600 1994 Clifford Henry, her fiance who died in WWI, may have been the model for Ashley Wilkes

FJ 2002 In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A"

Harriet Beecher Stowe 15x 7.1% stumper $443 avg J:4 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $200 2018 Born in Connecticut in 1811, she went to that "cabin" in the sky July 1, 1896

DJ $800 2021 In the 1830s, before she was a bestselling author, she lived in Cincinnati, across from a slave-holding community

DJ $1,200 2019 "The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American

James Joyce 15x 13.3% stumper $900 avg J:2 DJ:13

DJ $200 1988 Bennett Cerf at Random House imported this man's "Ulysses", causing the famous obscenity trial

J $600 2014 Appropriately, a tower in Ireland that was a setting in "Ulysses" houses a museum devoted to this author

DJ $2,000 2026 Stephen Dedalus

Dorothy Parker 14x 7.7% stumper $1,169 avg J:2 DJ:11 FJ:1

DJ $400 2011 We wonder if this witty gal wrote dialogue for "A Star Is Born" while sitting at a round table

J $500 1991 Even after her divorce and remarriage, she continued to use the name of her ex-husband Edwin P. Parker II

DJ $1,000 DD 1997 In a 1931 issue of The New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer"

Ayn Rand 14x 7.7% stumper $1,262 avg J:2 DJ:11 FJ:1

DJ $200 1991 She took a typing job in an architect's office to help research "The Fountainhead"

DJ $800 2017 This author of "The Fountainhead" was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia

DJ $1,200 2024 "The John Galt line was moving forward. The attacks on his metal had ceased"

Edith Wharton 14x 7.1% stumper $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:13

DJ $400 2016 Her own "Age of Innocence" began on Jan. 24, 1862, when she was born into a wealthy & socially prominent New York family

DJ $600 1997 Born Edith Newbold Jones, she published "The House of Mirth" under this, her married name

J $1,000 2007 She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English

Isak Dinesen 14x 28.6% stumper $829 avg J:1 DJ:13

DJ $200 1999 Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke

J $600 2018 Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962

DJ $1,000 1993 On winning his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest Hemingway said it should have gone to this "Beautiful" Danish writer instead

Jules Verne 13x 11.1% stumper $600 avg J:1 DJ:8 FJ:4

DJ $200 1997 His "Voyages Extraordinaires" include one "From the Earth to the Moon" & one "To the Center of the Earth"

DJ $800 2006 He studied law & worked as a stockbroker before writing the 1st of his "Voyages Extraordinaires" in 1863

DJ $1,200 2014 In 1865 this French author wrote about a space flight launched from Florida that later splashes down in the Pacific

Ian Fleming 13x 20.0% stumper $530 avg J:1 DJ:9 FJ:3

DJ $400 2019 "The Moneypenny Diaries" series was authorized by this writer's estate

DJ $800 2016 This author's "The Diamond Smugglers" is nonfiction, but it's about a British secret agent who uses gadgets

DJ $1,000 DD 2018 Following World War II, he built an estate in Jamaica called Goldeneye

George Sand 12x 16.7% stumper $1,292 avg J:1 DJ:11

DJ $500 DD 2001 Pen name of Aurore Dupin, whose "Un Hiver A Majerque" tells of nursing Chopin

J $1,000 2013 This woman from Nohant, France took a male pen name & a piano-playing lover

DJ $600 1987 She was an illegitimate great-great-granddaughter of the king of Poland, & Chopin's lover

Michael Crichton 12x $592 avg J:6 DJ:6

J $200 2024 He was still in Harvard Med School when hesold the movie rights to "The Andromeda Strain"; yeah, he never did practice

J $600 2014 "Jurassic"(1990)

J $1,000 2012 He wrote "A Case of Need" as Jeffery Hudson but used his own name for "Disclosure" & "Rising Sun"

Edgar Rice Burroughs 12x 9.1% stumper $655 avg J:2 DJ:9 FJ:1

J $200 1988 In 1919, he began subdividing his ranch in Tarzana, California

DJ $600 1992 In 1930 this Tarzan creator wrote "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"

DJ $1,600 2018 William Burroughs created the Mugwumps of "Naked Lunch"; this other Burroughs created the Banths of Mars

Ken Kesey 11x 18.2% stumper $1,264 avg J:5 DJ:6

J $100 1988 Former attendant in a mental ward who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

DJ $800 2010 This "Sometimes a Great Notion" author served time for marijuana possession

DJ $1,600 2021 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

J.K. Rowling 10x 22.2% stumper $367 avg J:3 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $200 2004 Her initials stand for Joanne Kathleen

DJ $600 2000 While out of work, she wrote much of her first Harry Potter book at a cafe while her daughter napped

FJ 2018 The first novelist on Forbes' list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 mil. to charity

Joseph Heller 10x 30.0% stumper $1,440 avg DJ:10

DJ $400 DD 2018 "Catch as Catch Can" is a posthumous collection of stories by this real-life WWII bombardier

DJ $600 1996 From 1950 to 1952, this "Catch-22" author taught English at Penn State

DJ $1,200 2010 The "Catch" is that this satirical writer was born in Brooklyn in 1923 (not '22)

Henry James 10x $822 avg DJ:9 FJ:1

DJ $400 2009 "The Bostonians"by H.J.

DJ $800 1992 "The Europeans"

DJ $1,200 2023 The "Fifty Shades" trilogy

Norman Mailer 9x 44.4% stumper $689 avg DJ:9

DJ $200 1993 He based "The Naked and the Dead" on his experiences in the Philippines during WWII

DJ $600 1995 In 1969 this "The Naked and the Dead" author ran for NYC mayor, proposing statehood for the city

DJ $2,000 2024 A quote from his "The Deer Park" about the importance of continual growth adorns the grave of this controversial American novelist

Judith Krantz 9x 11.1% stumper $733 avg J:2 DJ:7

J $400 2001 This "Scruples" author dishes the dirt on herself in "Sex and Shopping: Confessions of A Nice Jewish Girl"

DJ $600 1998 Her first published novel was "Scruples" in 1978

DJ $1,600 2013 She's dazzled her readers with novels like "Dazzle", "Princess Daisy" & "Scruples"

Edna Ferber 9x 44.4% stumper $956 avg J:1 DJ:8

DJ $600 1996 This "Cimarron" author's 1963 autobiography was titled "A Kind of Magic"

J $1,000 2016 A towering tale of the old west, "Cimarron" by this "Show Boat" author was the No. 1 book of 1930

DJ $600 1994 To get the right feel for "Show Boat", she lived & worked on one for a couple of months

Washington Irving 9x 11.1% stumper $622 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 2004 During the War of 1812 this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of naval commanders

J $600 2011 "It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball"

J $1,000 2021 A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker

Somerset Maugham 9x 11.1% stumper $956 avg DJ:9

DJ $200 1993 He was born in 1874 in Paris, where his father, Robert Ormond Maugham. worked at the British embassy

DJ $1,000 1995 In 1954 this author of "The Razor's Edge" was named a companion of honour by Queen Elizabeth II

DJ $2,000 2008 His short story "Rain" was inspired by a missionary & a prostitute who were passengers aboard his ship on a trip to Samoa

Evelyn Waugh 9x 11.1% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:8

DJ $400 1989 He also wrote travel books & biographies but is better known for "Brideshead Revisited"

DJ $800 1993 This novelist dedicated "The Loved One" to his fellow author Nancy Mitford

DJ $1,000 1997 A royal horse guard during World War II, he "revisited" the war in his "Sword of Honour" trilogy

Miguel de Cervantes 9x 14.3% stumper $543 avg DJ:7 FJ:2

DJ $200 2001 This "Don Quixote" author was called the "Maimed of Lepanto" for wounds suffered in battle

DJ $800 2026 Sancho Panza & Dulcinea

DJ $1,600 2006 In "Exemplary Tales", a 1613 collection, he claimed to be the first to write short stories in Castilian

Upton Sinclair 9x 22.2% stumper $1,056 avg J:2 DJ:7

J $500 1984 A founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, better known for "The Jungle"

J $1,000 2013 This author who said welcome to "The Jungle" organized the EPIC (End Poverty in Calif.) movement in the 1930s

DJ $800 2001 He came out of "The Jungle" to write juvenile novels as Clarke Fitch

Gustave Flaubert 9x 11.1% stumper $822 avg J:1 DJ:8

DJ $600 1989 Some say Guy de Maupassant was the illegitimate son of this "Madame Bovary" author

DJ $1,200 2003 In 1856 he & his 2 editors were brought to trial for publishing a morally offensive book, "Madame Bovary"

DJ $800 2018 "Madame Bovary" provoked so much outrage it was banned & this author faced immorality charges

Alexandre Dumas 9x 11.1% stumper $867 avg DJ:9

DJ $400 2003 He spent much of his money supporting several mistresses & maintaining his estate, Monte-Cristo

DJ $600 1995 With money earned from his novels, he built a villa outside Paris called "Monte Cristo"

DJ $1,600 2003 This playwright was the illegitimate fils of a famed novelist

Louis L'Amour 8x $488 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $200 1994 When he was born in Jamestown, North Dakota in 1908, his family spelled their last name LaMoore

DJ $600 1992 In 1984 Ronald Reagan awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to this man known for Western novels

DJ $1,200 2008 This Western author grew up listening to tales of his great-grandfather, who was scalped by the Sioux

Erle Stanley Gardner 8x 50.0% stumper $725 avg DJ:8

DJ $200 1999 A.A. Fair is a fairly well-known pen name of this Perry Mason author

DJ $800 2002 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans.) What's now Preservation Hallwas once the home of this "Perry Mason" author

DJ $2,000 2002 A.A. Fair

Ray Bradbury 8x 16.7% stumper $1,167 avg DJ:6 FJ:2

DJ $400 2003 In 1979 a play based on his novel "Fahrenheit 451" was produced in Los Angeles

DJ $800 2016 1951:"The Illustrated Man"

DJ $1,600 2005 His story "I Sing the Body Electric!" was adapted as an episode of "The Twilight Zone"

Philip Roth 8x 25.0% stumper $1,150 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $200 1990 "Portnoy's Complaint"

J $800 2021 Named "after Alexander Portnoy... symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship"

DJ $2,000 2011 A Pulitzer for "American Pastoral" is one of the honors bestowed on this Newarker

Herman Wouk 8x 12.5% stumper $1,275 avg DJ:8

DJ $400 2001 "Marjorie Morningstar","The Caine Mutiny"

DJ $600 1992 He dedicated "War and Remembrance" to his firstborn son, Abraham Isaac, who died in 1951

DJ $2,000 2007 In the 1930s this author of "Marjorie Morningstar" was a writer for comedian Fred Allen

Albert Camus 8x $1,217 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:2

J $500 1997 "The Stranger","The Plague"

DJ $1,200 2012 During WWII, this author of "The Plague" joined the French resistance

FJ 2023 In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death"

William Golding 8x $575 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 1998 He was a schoolmaster in England before he wrote about schoolboys in "Lord of the Flies"

DJ $600 1995 During WWII this "Lord of the Flies" author commanded a rocket launching craft in the Royal Navy

DJ $1,200 2021 A quarter century after "Lord of the Flies", this man won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage"

Marcel Proust 8x 12.5% stumper $1,012 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $400 1990 This author of "Remembrance of Things Past" was a semirecluse who suffered from chronic asthma

DJ $800 2024 The movie "Time Regained" is about this memory-obsessed French novelist

DJ $1,000 1999 Since he remembered things past, Echo was an apropos nom de plume for this Frenchman

Franz Kafka 8x $1,029 avg J:1 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $600 1986 Czech writer who wrote in German, his life, like his novels, was a constant "Trial"

J $1,000 2010 Czech out my short story "A Hunger Artist"! Tweet done. Max Brod, pls burn my laptop

FJ 2001 The Prague tombstone of this German-language writer who died in 1924 is inscribed in Hebrew

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Simone de Beauvoir 7x 28.6% stumper $1,543 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $800 2021 Finally out in 2020, this feminist's "The Inseparables" was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn't like it

DJ $1,000 1995 She dedicated "La Force de l'Age", the 2nd volume of her autobiography, to Jean-Paul Sartre

DJ $800 DD 1999 Best known for her romance with Sartre, she also had a fling with Chicago novelist Nelson Algren

O. Henry 7x $686 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1994 William Sydney Porter

DJ $600 1996 This author of "The Ransom of Red Chief" spent more than 3 years in an Ohio federal penitentiary

DJ $1,600 2011 We'll give you a chocolate bar if you'll name this short story writer born Sept. 11, 1862 in North Carolina

Colleen McCullough 7x 50.0% stumper $933 avg DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 1997 She had the story idea for "The Thorn Birds" before she published her first novel, "Tim" in 1974

DJ $800 2012 This "Thorn Birds" author established the department of neurophysiology at a hospital in Sydney, Australia

DJ $2,000 2004 In "The October Horse", this "Thorn Birds" author recounts the romance of Caesar & Cleopatra

Barbara Cartland 7x 14.3% stumper $729 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1990 Winston Churchill wrote the preface to her biography of her brother Ronald Cartland

DJ $600 1996 Queen of British romance novelists who wrote "The Wicked Marquis" & "The Impetuous Duchess"

DJ $1,000 1991 She's Princess Diana's stepgrandmother, but she's better known for her romance novels

Saul Bellow 7x 42.9% stumper $1,129 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $200 1988 This author of "Herzog" won both the Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes in 1976

DJ $800 1987 Though born & raised in Canada this author of "Herzog" is regarded as an American author

J $1,000 2014 "Augie"(1953)

Henry Miller 7x 14.3% stumper $500 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $200 1992 Anais Nin wrote the preface to the first edition of his "Tropic of Cancer"

DJ $600 2001 His relationship with his wife & with Anais Nin was the basis for the movie "Henry & June"

J $200 1991 He published "Black Spring" between "Tropic of Cancer" & "Tropic of Capricorn"

Arthur C. Clarke 7x $2,900 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:3

DJ $600 1997 Astronaut Dave Bowman is brought back to life in his recent novel "3001: The Final Odyssey"

DJ $7,000 DD 2009 He won a Hugo Award for a 1973 novel

FJ 2014 The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar

Zane Grey 6x $450 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1988 This wild west author of "Riders of the Purple Sage" was a native of Zanesville, Ohio

DJ $600 1993 The original first name of this author of "Riders of the Purple Sage" was Pearl

DJ $400 1993 This writer of "Riders of the Purple Sage" practiced dentistry from 1896 to 1904

Joel Chandler Harris 6x 16.7% stumper $633 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1991 "Uncle Remus"

DJ $600 1998 This author of the Uncle Remus stories also wrote "Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine"

DJ $600 1995 In 1879 he published "The Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox, as Told by Uncle Remus"

Jacqueline Susann 6x 16.7% stumper $733 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1994 Nora Ephron called this "Valley of the Dolls" author "an extraordinary publishing phenomenon"

DJ $600 1987 Her only non-fiction work was "Every Night, Josephine!" describing her French poodle's lifestyle

DJ $1,000 1990 This author's 1st million-selling book, "Every Night, Josephine!", was about her pet poodle

Jack Kerouac 6x $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $200 1989 French-Canadian by ancestry & American by birth, his real name was Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac

DJ $800 1994 He not only led the "Beat Generation" movement, he also coined the term

DJ $3,000 DD 2021 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

Colette 6x 33.3% stumper $1,233 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $400 1989 The musical "Gigi" was based on a novel of the same name by this Frenchwoman

DJ $800 1993 When this author of "Gigi" died in 1954, she was given a state funeral

J $1,000 2002 This French author chose Audrey Hepburn to play Gigi onstage

Thomas Wolfe 6x $783 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $300 1988 The 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to "Look Homeward: A Life of" this man

DJ $800 1999 His lover, stage designer Aline Bernstein, helped him publish "Look Homeward, Angel"

DJ $2,000 2011 He was born at home Oct. 3, 1900 in Asheville, N.C. & later found out you can't go home again

Theodore Dreiser 6x 16.7% stumper $1,183 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $600 1997 Published in 1915, "The 'Genius' " is a semi-autobiographical novel by this author of "Sister Carrie"

DJ $1,500 DD 2010 He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871

DJ $600 1996 Songwriter Paul Dresser, who changed the spelling of his name, was this "Sister Carrie" author's brother

P.G. Wodehouse 6x $733 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2005 His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum"

DJ $600 1996 The initials P.G. in his name stood for Pelham Grenville

DJ $1,000 1989 Pelham Grenville

Judy Blume 6x 33.3% stumper $900 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $400 2016 She made a splash with her 1970 young adult novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?"

J $600 2019 "Fourth Grade Nothing" Peter Hatcher & Sally J. Freedman as herself

DJ $1,200 2018 A book by this author begins, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. We're moving today"

Henry Fielding 6x 16.7% stumper $833 avg DJ:6

DJ $600 2001 "Amelie","Tom Jones"

DJ $1,200 2003 He wrote the play "Tom Thumb" & the novel "Tom Jones"

DJ $800 2003 It's said that this "Tom Jones" author (mistakenly) traced his lineage to the Hapsburgs

Katherine Anne Porter 5x 20.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $500 1991 This "Ship of Fools" author won her only Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for a collection of her stories

DJ $1,000 1997 This Texan set her novella "Noon Wine" on a Texas dairy farm, not on a "Ship of Fools"

DJ $800 1985 Her collected stories won her '66 Pulitzer Prize, but her only novel, "Ship of Fools" won her fame

Joyce Carol Oates 5x 20.0% stumper $1,040 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1996 Of Joyce Cary, Joyce Kilmer or Joyce Carol Oates, the one that fits the category

DJ $1,000 1997 "We Were The Mulvaneys" is one of this Princeton professor's more than 25 novels since 1964

DJ $400 1994 Of James Joyce, Joyce Kilmer or Joyce Carol Oates, the one who used the pen name Rosamond Smith

Isaac Bashevis Singer 5x 80.0% stumper $1,720 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $1,000 2017 Creator of "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy":IBS

DJ $1,600 2002 The movie "Yentl" was based on a story by him

DJ $2,000 2021 This Yentl creator's "Shadows on the Hudson" is about Jewish refugees in the aftermath of World War II

E.M. Forster 5x $660 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2005 His last novel, "A Passage to India", is considered his masterwork

J $500 1992 Though completed almost 60 years earlier, this English novelist's "Maurice" was not published until 1971

DJ $1,000 1998 An inheritance from his great-aunt allowed this "Howards End" author time to pursue his writing

Dostoyevsky 5x $560 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1996 "Crime and Punishment" author imprisoned for participation in the subversive Petrashevsky Circle

DJ $600 1992 "The Idiot"

DJ $1,200 2012 Born in Moscow November 11, 1821, gave "Notes From the Underground", headed underground February 9, 1881

Australia 5x $480 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1997 In 1964 Kath Walker became the first aboriginal woman from this country to have a book published

DJ $600 1993 In 1973 Patrick White became the first from this continent to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

DJ $400 2000 Mudrooroo, AKA Colin Johnson, gained fame as an Aboriginal writer from this country

Mary McCarthy 5x $1,120 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 2015 This author of "The Road" told Oprah he doesn't use commas because they "block the page up with weird little marks"

DJ $2,000 2025 His 2023 obit in The New York Times called "Blood Meridian" "a bad dream of a Western"

DJ $800 1997 This author of "The Group" based the heroine of her book "The Company She Keeps" on herself

James Michener 5x $575 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $300 1991 Author of "Caravans" & "The Source", he was foundling adopted by Pennsylvania Quakers

DJ $600 1992 This author of "The Source" attended Swarthmore College on an athletic scholarship

DJ $1,000 1991 During World War II, he was made naval historian for part of the South Pacific

Henrik Ibsen 5x 20.0% stumper $920 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2012 James Joyce learned Dano-Norwegian to read this playwright's works in the original language--that's a fan

DJ $800 2002 Bjornstjerne Bjornson won in 1903; this fellow Norwegian who wrote "The Master Builder" never did

DJ $2,000 2010 This "Enemy of the People" playwright worked as a druggist's assistant before college & began to study medicine

Émile Zola 4x 50.0% stumper $650 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $300 1990 In 1937, Paul Muni starred in "The Life of" this man, an author & an advocate of naturalism

DJ $1,000 1987 Though he never won a Nobel Prize, "The Life of" this Frenchman won a '37 Best Picture Oscar

FJ 2019 "I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense"

William Saroyan 4x 75.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1985 He refused the 1940 Pulitzer for his play, "The Time of Your Life"

DJ $800 1996 His early work appeared in an obscure Armenian language publication under the name Sirak Goryan

DJ $800 1994 Half of this "The Time Of Your Life" author's ashes were interred in California & half in Armenia

Thomas Mann 4x 25.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1991 W.H. Auden married Erika Mann, this novelist's daughter, so she could leave Nazi Germany

DJ $1,000 1995 "Joseph and His Brothers" is a tetralogy of novels by this German who also wrote "Death in Venice"

DJ $1,600 2016 This "Magic Mountain" author left Germany for the same L.A. street where O.J. Simpson later lived

Solzhenitsyn 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1988 Novelist who conceived his play "Prisoners" while imprisoned in the gulag in the 1950s

DJ $600 1994 This author of "The Gulag Archipelago" was awarded the Order of the Wed Star for his WWII service

DJ $2,000 2010 He was imprisoned after writing a letter critical of Stalin & wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" on his experiences

Sidney Sheldon 4x 33.3% stumper $733 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $600 1994 This author of "The Other Side of Midnight" originally dreamed of becoming a composer

FJ 2001 One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie"

DJ $800 2007 After winning an Oscar & a Tony, he tried his hand at novels like "The Naked Face" & "The Other Side of Midnight"

Pearl S. Buck 4x $1,225 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1993 She was born Pearl Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia & taken to China as a child

J $600 2002 Try to un"earth" a copy of "Imperial Woman", this American woman's 1956 novel about the last empress of China

DJ $1,900 DD 1994 This American novelist published her "Oriental Cookbook" in 1972

Patricia Cornwell 4x 75.0% stumper $1,400 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 2001 "All That Remains" & "Cause of Death" are among her novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta

DJ $1,000 1997 Like her heroine Kay Scarpetta, this author once worked for the chief medical examiner's office in Virginia

DJ $1,600 2004 2003's "Blow Fly" is her twelfth novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now a private forensics consultant

Nora Ephron 4x $550 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1992 "Heartburn" author whose parents, Henry & Phoebe Ephron, wrote the screenplay for "Carousel"

DJ $600 1996 This author of "Heartburn" has written several films, including "When Harry Met Sally"

DJ $400 1991 Her novel "Heartburn" was based on her relationship with writer Carl Bernstein

Mississippi 4x 25.0% stumper $1,475 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 2001 Bluesman Bukka White memorialized his time at this state's infamous Parchman Farm in song

DJ $1,000 1994 Eudora Welty set "The Ponder Heart" & many other works in this southern state, her birthplace

DJ $800 1996 Eudora Welty set her first full-length novel, "Delta Wedding", in this, her home state

Mickey Spillane 4x 25.0% stumper $625 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1998 He created Mike Hammer & played the part in the 1963 film "The Girl Hunters"

J $1,000 2024 He's been called the "King of Pulp Fiction":MY ALIEN PICKLES

DJ $200 2001 Mike Hammer

Maeve Binchy 4x 25.0% stumper $1,150 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 "Circle of Friends"

DJ $1,000 1997 She was a reporter for the Irish Times before she wrote bestsellers like "Circle of Friends"

DJ $1,000 1995 Bestsellers by this Irish author include "Circle of Friends", source of a 1995 film, & "The Glass Lake"

John Updike 4x $750 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 2001 "Rabbit at Rest"

DJ $800 1997 His 1996 book "Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf" includes excerpts from his "Rabbit" novels

DJ $1,600 2015 He was a staff writer for The New Yorker before writing novels like "Rabbit, Run"

Joan Didion 4x 100.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 1993 With husband John Gregory Dunne, she adapted her 1970 novel "Play It As It Lays" for the screen

J $1,000 2008 She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"

DJ $1,600 2024 Known for her "Magical Thinking", she wrote a short novel called "Democracy" & co-wrote the 1976 film "A Star Is Born"

Hermann Hesse 4x $2,350 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2008 A visit to India inspiredhisnovel "Siddhartha", published in German in 1922

DJ $1,000 1993 Though he later became a Swiss citizen, this "Steppenwolf" author was from the Black Forest

DJ $1,000 1989 Son of missionaries who worked in India, he set his novel "Siddhartha" there

Harlem 4x $400 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1996 Claude McKay was a leading figure in this NYC area's "Renaissance" even though he was born in Jamaica

DJ $600 1987 James Baldwin called this "the only human part of New York", but left it anyway

DJ $400 2008 In the 1950s, Chester Himes moved to Paris, where he wrote murder mysteries like "Cotton Comes to" here

Erskine Caldwell 4x 50.0% stumper $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1988 In the '20s he played pro football, & in the '30s he wrote "Tobacco Road"

DJ $600 1989 He worked as a menial laborer & a cotton picker before he wrote "Tobacco Road"

DJ $800 1996 This "God's Little Acre" author served as a newspaper correspondent in Russia during World War II

Booth Tarkington 4x 100.0% stumper $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1997 He based the title character of his 1914 novel "Penrod" in part on his nephews

DJ $1,000 1995 The 1899 novel "The Gentleman From Indiana" made this author from Indiana an overnight sensation

DJ $800 1985 In 1919, he won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Magnificent Ambersons"

(John) Bunyan 4x $1,250 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1996 As a teenager this author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" fought for Parliament in the English Civil War

DJ $1,000 1994 "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" was this "Pilgrim's Progress" author's autobiography

DJ $1,200 2011 Born in Bedfordshire, England in 1628, he was making "Progress" from the start

Stephenie Meyer 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2025 In 2010 she published "The Short Second Life of" newbie vampire Bree Tanner, first introduced in "Eclipse"

DJ $800 2013 Far from the "Twilight" of her career:EERIEST MEN HYPE

DJ $1,200 2023 From the same year she completed her quartet about the undead, her novel "The Host" deals with aliens taking over human minds

Douglas Adams 4x $1,267 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $800 2023 The first 5 books of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

DJ $1,000 1995 An illustrated edition of his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was published in 1994

FJ 2024 Following his unexpected death in 2001, he was referred to as the "Monty Python of science fiction"

Worth Knowing (123)

Zora Neale Hurston 3 Tom Wolfe 3 Stephen Crane 3 South Africa 3 Saki 3 Ronald Reagan 3 Rick Riordan 3 Ralph Ellison 3 Nathanael West 3 Martin Cruz Smith 3 Margaret Atwood 3 Madeleine L'Engle 3 Machiavelli 3 Larry McMurtry 3 James Herriot 3 Horatio Alger 3 H. Rider Haggard 3 Ford Madox Ford 3 Eugene O'Neill 3 Carson McCullers 3 Beckett 3 Anton Chekhov 3 Anne Tyler 3 Aesop 3 (Mario) Puzo 3 (Jean-Paul) Sartre 3 World War I 2 William Sydney Porter 2 William Shatner 2 Washington 2 Wales 2 The Thorn Birds 2 The Prophet 2 The Good Earth 2 the Civil War 2 Texas 2 Terry McMillan 2 Tama Janowitz 2 Sweden 2 Suzanne Collins 2 Steve Allen 2 Stendhal 2 Stanley 2 Sir Thomas Malory 2 Sholom Aleichem 2 Shirley Jackson 2 Sean O'Casey 2 Schindler's List 2 Sapphire 2 Samuel Johnson 2 Sam Shepard 2 Ruth Rendell 2 Roberts 2 Rita Mae Brown 2 Rabelais 2 North Carolina 2 New Hampshire 2 Neil Gaiman 2 Nadine Gordimer 2 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 2 Malcolm Gladwell 2 Makepeace 2 Lois Lowry 2 Lessing's blessings 2 Leon Uris 2 Lee Child 2 Lawrence Durrell 2 Ken Follett 2 Kate Chopin 2 John le Carre 2 Jimmy Carter 2 James Jones 2 James Dickey 2 James Clavell 2 Jamaica 2 J.M. Barrie 2 Irving Stone 2 Illinois 2 Honore de Balzac 2 Homer 2 H.P. Lovecraft 2 Gypsy Rose Lee 2 Gurley 2 Gunter Grass 2 Goethe 2 German 2 Germaine Greer 2 Garrison Keillor 2 Gabaldon 2 Fleming's lemmings 2 Fenimore 2 Fannie Flagg 2 Eudora Welty 2 Erma Bombeck 2 Erich Segal 2 Emile Zola 2 Ellery Queen 2 Edward Everett Hale 2 Ed McBain 2 E.L. Doctorow 2 Dr. Benjamin Spock 2 Dostoevsky 2 David Foster Wallace 2 Cormac McCarthy 2 Chicago 2 Charles 2 C.S. Forester 2 Bret 2 Boswell 2 Booth 2 Benjamin Disraeli 2 Ben Franklin 2 Bellow's cellos 2 Arthur Miller 2 Anne Morrow Lindbergh 2 Andrew Greeley 2 Anais Nin 2 Al Franken 2 Al Capp 2 (R.L.) Stine 2 (Joe) Wambaugh 2 (Jean) Auel 2 (Frederick) Forsyth 2

Poetry

59 answers | 339 clues

Must-Know (14)

Stephen King 23x $624 avg J:5 DJ:16 FJ:2

J $100 1999 "The Dead Zone","The Dark Half","It"

DJ $800 2025 He wrote for the University of Maine school newspaper & sold his first short story, "The Glass Floor", before he graduated

DJ $1,200 2019 Thisnovelist has sold an estimated 350 million books

Rudyard Kipling 22x 4.8% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:18 FJ:1

J $100 1997 Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" & he wrote "The Jungle Book"

DJ $800 2011 "Just So Stories", his 1902 collection for children, was the only book he also illustrated

DJ $1,000 1997 He dedicated his 1888 book "Plain Tales From The Hills" "To the wittiest woman in India"

John Steinbeck 19x 21.1% stumper $879 avg J:5 DJ:14

DJ $200 1996 Shortly after "The Grapes of Wrath" was published, he embarked on an expedition to Mexico

DJ $800 1990 "The Moon Is Down"

J $1,000 DD 2020 Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy

Jane Austen 18x $660 avg J:3 DJ:12 FJ:3

J $200 2019 Fanny, who visits Mansfield Park, & hunky Edmund, whom she meets there

DJ $600 1997 Longfellow said this "Pride And Prejudice" author's writings "Are a capital picture of real life"

DJ $1,100 DD 1995 Her "Sense and Sensibility" grew out of an earlier novel, "Elinor and Marianne"

Aldous Huxley 15x 7.1% stumper $857 avg J:1 DJ:13 FJ:1

DJ $200 1989 He died in 1963, the same year his half brother Andrew Huxley won the Nobel Prize for Physiology

DJ $600 1995 In 1958 this author reconsidered some of his prophecies in "Brave New World Revisited"

DJ $1,000 1996 In 1958 he published a follow-up to "Brave New World", titled "Brave New World Revisited"

D.H. Lawrence 13x 27.3% stumper $773 avg J:3 DJ:8 FJ:2

DJ $200 1993 A 1929 showing of paintings by this "Lady Chatterley's Lover" author was raided by the police

DJ $600 1995 His novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was first published privately in Florence, Italy in 1928

DJ $1,000 2000 In 1912 he eloped with Freida von Richthofen, sister of the famed aviator

Thomas Hardy 13x 15.4% stumper $938 avg J:1 DJ:12

DJ $200 1990 "The Return of the Native"

DJ $800 1994 "Under the Greenwood Tree" was the 1st of his novels set in what he would later call Wessex

DJ $1,200 2007 T.S. Eliot wrote that this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author was "unhampered by any ideas"

George Eliot 12x 25.0% stumper $1,208 avg J:1 DJ:11

DJ $800 2025 I may use a man's name in a man's world, but trust me ... I may be Victorian but I'm no run of "The Mill On The Floss"!

DJ $1,600 2023 Mary Anne Evans was the real name of this "Middlemarch" author

DJ $2,000 2024 In a letter to pen pal across the sea Harriet Beecher Stowe, she discussed her own novel "Daniel Deronda"

J.R.R. Tolkien 12x 10.0% stumper $520 avg J:4 DJ:6 FJ:2

J $200 2011 "He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible"

J $600 2002 The struggle between good & evil forces over a magic ring is at the center of his epic trilogy

DJ $1,500 DD 1992 While a student at Oxford, this author began to create his language called "Elvish"

Lewis Carroll 11x 37.5% stumper $325 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:3

J $200 2026 Charles Dodgson fell down the rabbit hole into Wonderland using this pen name

DJ $600 1999 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

FJ 2017 A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new"

Henry David Thoreau 11x 18.2% stumper $891 avg J:1 DJ:10

DJ $200 1998 From 1845 to 1847 he lived in a cabin he built on the shore of Walden Pond

J $800 2024 Born & died in Concord:A VERY HIDDEN AUTHOR

DJ $1,600 2018 "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864

Edgar Allan Poe 10x 12.5% stumper $1,088 avg J:1 DJ:7 FJ:2

DJ $200 1993 A stone relief of a raven tops his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland

J $600 2009 C. Auguste Dupin

DJ $1,000 DD 1996 The poem "Ulalume" is his only important work of 1847, the year his child bride died

Kurt Vonnegut 9x 11.1% stumper $1,522 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $100 2001 "Slaughterhouse Five"(1969)

J $600 2010 What am I doing?! Screaming! Itz 1945 & I'm U.S. soldier @ bombing of Dresden! (Will write 1969 novel about it)

DJ $1,600 2017 His third novel, "Mother Night", was his first to abandon science fiction

Geoffrey Chaucer 8x 12.5% stumper $450 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $200 1995 During the Hundred Years' War, this "Canterbury Tales" author fought in France & was captured

J $600 2013 He served 2 kings as a diplomat & lived his last year, 1399-1400, in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey

DJ $1,000 1991 This 14th-century poet has been called "The Father of English Poetry"

Should-Know (13)

Voltaire 7x 14.3% stumper $1,057 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1997 This "Candide" author wrote the libretti for several Rameau operas, including "La Princesse de Navarre"

DJ $600 1987 This "Candide" author so inveighed against the church, they denied him a Christian burial

DJ $1,600 2020 In addition to satirical works, this one-named French enlightenment writer penned the 1723 epic poem "La Henriade"

Mary Shelley 7x $567 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 1999 After her husband Percy died, this author urged one of Washington Irving's friends to fix them up

DJ $800 2011 Besides the title role in "The Bride of Frankenstein", Elsa Lanchester also played this writer

DJ $1,200 DD 2000 Sadly, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just 10 days after her birth

Daphne du Maurier 7x 28.6% stumper $1,086 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1994 Readers fell under the spell of Svengali in "Trilby", a novel by her grandfather George du Maurier

DJ $600 1996 This "Rebecca" author's married name was Lady Daphne Browning

DJ $1,000 1997 Like "Rebecca", her novel "My Cousin Rachel" was made into a film

Victor Hugo 6x $250 avg DJ:4 FJ:2

DJ $200 1996 This "Les Miserables" author was the son of an officer in Napoleon's army

FJ 2009 Chapters in an 1831 work by this author include "Maitre Jacques Coppenole" & "A Tear for a Drop of Water"

FJ 1995 In 1881 Paris' Avenue d'Eylau was renamed for this author who lived on it in honor of his 80th year

George Bernard Shaw 6x 20.0% stumper $680 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 1994 Oscar Wilde said this "Pygmalion" author "hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him"

DJ $600 1992 Contemptuous of "Peter Pan", he wrote "Androcles & the Lion" to show Barrie "how it's done"

DJ $1,000 1997 Yeats described this "Arms And The Man" playwright as "An athiest who trembles in the haunted corridor"

Sylvia Plath 5x $1,140 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 This author of "The Bell Jar" was awarded a posthumous 1982 Pulitzer Prize for her "Collected Poems"

DJ $600 1997 A month after "The Bell Jar" was published in 1963, she took her own life

DJ $2,000 2012 In 1974, a decade after her suicide, James Dickey called her "the Judy Garland of American poetry"

Maya Angelou 5x 20.0% stumper $1,360 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $800 2013 "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first volume of her autobiography

DJ $1,200 2013 Born Marguerite Johnson, the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" adopted this name as an exotic dancer

DJ $1,600 2022 In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter

Emily Dickinson 5x $640 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2012 An 1860s poem that begins "Because I could not stop for death" is by this woman from western Massachusetts

DJ $600 1989 Probably America's best known 19th c. female poet, she was dubbed the "Moth of Amherst"

DJ $1,000 2001 "Called Back" is the epitaph on this poet's Amherst grave

A.A. Milne 5x $200 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $100 1997 He first wrote about Christopher Robin in the verse book "When We Were Very Young"

FJ 2010 His son Christopher said, my father "got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders"

FJ 2006 Author seen here with his son

Ralph Waldo Emerson 4x 100.0% stumper $1,250 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2021 This 19th century New England thinker penned the "Concord Hymn" & the essay "Self-Reliance"

DJ $1,000 DD 1995 Many of his lectures, including "Love" & "Self-Reliance", appeared in his 1841 work "Essays"

DJ $1,600 2014 "The transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law" is mentioned in his essay "The Over-Soul"

Edgar Lee Masters 4x 25.0% stumper $1,500 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1996 Lute Puckett & Elmer Chubb were pseudonyms used by this "Spoon River" poet

DJ $1,200 2014 In 1936 he published an autobiography titled "Across Spoon River"

DJ $2,000 2013 This 3-named poet maintained his successful Chicago law practice while penning works like "Spoon River Anthology"

Robert Burns 4x $2,125 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1988 He dropped the "E" from his last name in 1786, when he published his 1st book of Scottish poetry

DJ $600 1988 Besides some songs, he wrote only 1 major poem, "Tam o' Shanter", after age 27

DJ $6,800 DD 2022 The Globe Inn, with a vast selection of single malt scotches, was a hangout of this 18th century poet & can be yours

John Keats 4x $1,050 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1997 This English poet's "Ode On Indolence" wasn't published until after his death

DJ $2,000 2007 Byron on this poet: "Strange, the mind, that very fiery particle / Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article"

DJ $800 DD 1996 One critic called his 1818 poem "Endymion" nonsense & recommended he give up poetry

Worth Knowing (32)

Sir Walter Scott 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3 Robert Frost 3 Edna St. Vincent Millay 3 Dylan Thomas 3 Dante 3 China 3 Canada 3 Byron 3 Brooklyn 3 William Butler Yeats 2 Whitman 2 the Bronte Sisters 2 Stevie Smith 2 Stearns 2 Scotland 2 Salman Rushdie 2 Robert Penn Warren 2 Robert Graves 2 Polish 2 Pablo Neruda 2 Ovid 2 Mary Wollstonecraft 2 Joyce Kilmer 2 Erica Jong 2 Carl Sandburg 2 C. S. Lewis 2 Boris Pasternak 2 Barrett 2 Baltimore 2 Animal Farm 2 (Allen) Ginsberg 2

American Literature

18 answers | 219 clues

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Mark Twain 30x 10.0% stumper $647 avg J:8 DJ:22

J $400 2026 He signed a piece in the Hannibal Journal with the pseudonym W. Epaminondas Adrastus Perkins; he settled on a different pen name

J $800 2018 The town of Hadleyburg

J $1,000 DD 2014 The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall

Ernest Hemingway 30x 3.7% stumper $693 avg J:3 DJ:24 FJ:3

J $200 2007 "Green Hills of Africa","A Moveable Feast","The Nick Adams Stories"

DJ $800 2024 An ambulance driver during World War I, in high school, hewas a member of the swim team & the rifle club

DJ $1,000 1991 He dedicated “Across the River and into the Trees” “To Mary with love”

Toni Morrison 17x 12.5% stumper $1,156 avg J:6 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $200 2001 Thanks to Oprah, her 1970 novel "The Bluest Eye" was a bestseller in 2000

J $500 1991 This Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Beloved" was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931

J $1,000 DD 2002 A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993

Herman Melville 16x 18.8% stumper $688 avg J:4 DJ:12

J $100 1989 His grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, took part in the Boston Tea Party

DJ $500 DD 2001 In 1842 he & a shipmate jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands & lived for a month with the Typee tribe

J $3,600 DD 2021 "Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen"

Willa Cather 15x 7.1% stumper $1,007 avg J:2 DJ:12 FJ:1

J $100 1989 As a teenager, she cut her hair, dressed in boyish clothes & called herself William Cather

J $600 DD 2002 The heroine of her 1923 novel "A Lost Lady" is based on Mrs. Silas Garber, wife of a governor of Nebraska

DJ $1,000 1992 Virginia-born Nebraska authoress whose 1st novel, "Alexander's Bridge", was published in 1912

Louisa May Alcott 15x $692 avg J:2 DJ:10 FJ:3

DJ $200 1994 In 1869, due to the success of "Little Women", she wrote, "Paid up all the debts, thank, the Lord!"

DJ $800 2002 She wrote "Jo's Boys" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel

J $1,000 DD 2026 She used the pen names Flora Fairfield & A.M. Barnard but used her real name on "Jo's Boys"

F. Scott Fitzgerald 14x 25.0% stumper $1,008 avg J:1 DJ:11 FJ:2

DJ $400 1995 Though he never completed "The Last Tycoon", he did leave notes for the unfinished part

DJ $600 1987 1959's "Beloved Infidel" was Sheilah Graham's version of her affair with this novelist

DJ $2,000 2018 Hissecond novel, "The Beautiful and Damned", was published in 1922 & deals with a rich & glamorous couple

J.D. Salinger 14x 7.1% stumper $557 avg J:3 DJ:11

DJ $200 1996 In 1987 this author of "The Catcher in the Rye" blocked publication of an autobiography

DJ $600 1997 Ward Stradlater, Robert Ackley, Holden Caulfield

J $1,000 2021 "They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey"

Jack London 12x 16.7% stumper $692 avg J:1 DJ:11

DJ $200 1996 During the Russo-Japanese War, this "Call of the Wild" author served as a reporter for Hearst

DJ $600 1997 This author of "The Son of the Wolf" & "The Sea-Wolf" called his home "Wolf House"

DJ $1,600 2016 Along with his doggone novels, he wrote "That Spot", a short story about a faithful dog

Harper Lee 12x 18.2% stumper $1,036 avg J:2 DJ:9 FJ:1

DJ $200 1992 This author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is distantly related to Robert E. Lee

J $800 2004 Her 1960 classic begins, "When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"

DJ $1,200 2024 This Alabamian was working for an airline when she got a 1956 Xmas gift: "one year off from your job to write whatever you please"

Gertrude Stein 12x 25.0% stumper $1,408 avg J:1 DJ:11

DJ $200 1997 Ogden Nash rhymed, "I'm fond of women, also wine, but not the song of" this Toklas pal

DJ $800 1994 This expatriate's 1914 book "Tender Buttons" is considered a literary form of Cubism

DJ $6,000 DD 2021 She studied medicine at Johns Hopkins before moving to Paris in 1903 & drove an ambulance for the French in World War I

Nathaniel Hawthorne 12x 33.3% stumper $1,042 avg J:1 DJ:11

DJ $400 2018 It was a "red letter" day for this author in 1846 as he became surveyor of the custom house in Salem, Mass.

DJ $800 1996 From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.

DJ $1,200 2016 First published in 1837, this New Englander's "Twice-Told Tales"

Should-Know (2)

Bret Harte 6x 33.3% stumper $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $800 1985 Contemporary of Mark Twain who wrote "The Luck of Roaring Camp"

J $1,000 2004 This author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885

DJ $1,000 1995 This author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" wrote the play "Ah Sin" in collaboration with Mark Twain

James Baldwin 6x 16.7% stumper $1,267 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $800 2025 This Black novelist & essayist also wrote a script for a Malcolm X biopic, never filmed but published as "One Day When I Was Lost"

J $1,000 2024 Him: "Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I see where I came from; I am the grandson of a slave and I am a writer"

DJ $2,000 2021 Toni Morrison paid tribute to this "Go Tell It on the Mountain" author on his passing with a piece in The New York Times

Worth Knowing (4)

the Nobel Prize 2 Langhorne 2 Huckleberry Finn 2 Alabama 2

Children's Literature

25 answers | 197 clues

Must-Know (11)

Charles Dickens 24x 13.0% stumper $596 avg J:7 DJ:16 FJ:1

DJ $400 1992 "Sketches by Boz"

J $800 2015 Here's this beloved author giving a reading circa 1860

DJ $1,200 2005 At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes

Pearl Buck 18x 6.2% stumper $512 avg J:2 DJ:14 FJ:2

J $200 2016 A manuscript by this "Good Earth" author was lost for 40 years, found in a storage unit in Texas & published in 2013

DJ $500 DD 1997 "The Exile" was her acclaimed biography of her missionary mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker

DJ $1,000 1989 "Dragon Seed" author who wrote several novels with an American setting using the pen name John Sedges

Alice Walker 14x $714 avg J:2 DJ:12

DJ $200 2000 Anthropologists pose as missionaries in "By The Light of My Father's Smile" by this author of "The Color Purple"

J $600 2024 First African-American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: WEAKER LILAC

DJ $1,200 2005 This African-American author's works include the 500,000-year-spanning "Temple of My Familiar"

Hans Christian Andersen 13x 15.4% stumper $631 avg J:7 DJ:6

J $200 2018 In 1855 he published an autobiography, "The Fairy Tale of My Life"

J $600 2025 In one translation, "The most ghastly sight of all was a little mermaid whom they had caught and strangled"

DJ $4,000 DD 2021 On his 1875 passing in Copenhagen, it was said though his eyes were closed, in children's hearts, he would live forever

Vladimir Nabokov 11x 10.0% stumper $560 avg J:1 DJ:9 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 This "Lolita" author wrote 9 Russian novels under the name V. Sirin

DJ $600 1996 He created the first crossword puzzles written in Russian before he wrote "Lolita"

DJ $2,000 2014 "Pale Fire", a reference to moonlight in "Timon of Athens", is the title of a 1962 novel by this Russian-born man

Dr. Seuss 9x 33.3% stumper $733 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:3

DJ $200 2001 Using this name Theodor Geisel prescribed reading

DJ $1,200 DD 2002 A 1984 special Pulitzer Prize citation went to the children's author who used this pen name

FJ 2014 In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book"

Beatrix Potter 9x 14.3% stumper $871 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:2

J $200 2007 Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists

DJ $800 2018 James Corden voices Peter Rabbitin a 2018 film that's a very 21st century take on a work by this author

DJ $4,000 DD 2011 She always kept rabbits on her farm, Hill Top, so children wouldn't be disappointed if they stopped for a visit

Roald Dahl 9x 12.5% stumper $1,475 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $600 2019 Loompaland

DJ $1,600 2008 This creator of Willy Wonka wrote in a hut whose decor included bits of his own spine from an operation

FJ 2019 In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious

Amy Tan 9x 11.1% stumper $756 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $400 2006 She turned her short story collection "Wind and Water" into the bestseller "The Joy Luck Club"

J $600 2008 She departed from the theme of Chinese-American mothers & daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish From Drowning"

DJ $1,000 1993 On a 1987 trip to China, this author of "The Joy Luck Club" met 2 of her half-sisters for the first time

Jackie Collins 9x $711 avg J:2 DJ:7

DJ $400 2021 Katniss Everdeen

J $600 2020 Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie

DJ $1,200 2025 Actress Joan's sister, this author of the Lucky Santangelo novels was the subject of a documentary called "Lady Boss"

E.B. White 8x 25.0% stumper $1,075 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $200 2017 Wove a web about "some pig":EBW

DJ $800 1987 He wrote "Is Sex Necessary?" with James Thurber but he's better known for "Charlotte's Web"

DJ $1,200 2022 In 1979 he completed his third revision of "The Elements of Style"

Should-Know (9)

Truman Capote 7x 14.3% stumper $800 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1996 He was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans

DJ $600 1987 He played host to a murderous house party in the film "Murder by Death"

DJ $1,000 1993 He claimed that he finished "Answered Prayers", but the complete manuscript has never been found

Joseph Conrad 7x $680 avg DJ:5 FJ:2

DJ $400 2013 Born Jozef Korzeniowski, he went to the "heart of darkness" as a writer in English

DJ $800 2013 E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges"

DJ $1,200 2021 This Polish author who wrote in English lived in exile in Russia as a child & went to sea as a teenager

L. Frank Baum 7x $371 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $200 1996 This Oz creator wrote a series of "Twinkle Tales" under the pseudonym Laura Bancroft

J $600 2021 Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man

DJ $200 1993 W.W. Denslow illustrated the first edition of his "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

Isaac Asimov 7x 14.3% stumper $1,014 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $400 2011 This American sci fi author started looking into the future in Petrovichi, Russia on Jan. 2, 1920

DJ $800 2013 Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City

DJ $1,000 1987 His books for teens are written by "Paul French", but he put this name on "I, Robot"

C.S. Lewis 6x $850 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $500 2000 His "Screwtape Letters" & other works examining Christianity were first heard on the BBC or serialized in newspapers

J $1,000 2002 He wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia" for his goddaughter Lucy, who shares her name with a character in them

DJ $600 1995 This author who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia died the same day as John F. Kennedy

Danielle Steel 5x 75.0% stumper $600 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 1996 "Malice", published in 1996, is her 37th bestseller

DJ $600 1990 Romance novelist who tackled Vietnam in her 25th bestseller "Message From Nam"

DJ $1,000 1991 "Crossings"

Lillian Hellman 4x $1,250 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 1996 This playwright called her first book of memoirs "An Unfinished Woman" & her last "Maybe"

DJ $1,000 1993 She won a 1941 N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award for her play "Watch on the Rhine"

DJ $1,000 1984 Long-time companion of Dashiell Hammett, she was played in "Julia" by Jane Fonda

India 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2017 "Kipling Sahib" details the author's birth in this country, being sent to England, hating it there & going back

J $600 2003 Deepak Chopra

DJ $1,200 2018 In "Midnight's Children", No. 2 by Salman Rushdie, Saleem is born Aug. 15, 1947 in this country on its independence day

Anthony Burgess 4x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1988 Name under which John Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange"

DJ $800 1995 It's the pen name of author John Burgess Wilson

DJ $1,600 2006 He created dozens of musical works as well as novels like "A Clockwork Orange"

Worth Knowing (5)

Sholem Aleichem 3 Maurice Sendak 3 Mary Poppins 3 P.L. Travers 2 Gloria Steinem 2

Mystery / Thriller

22 answers | 150 clues

Must-Know (4)

Agatha Christie 28x 3.8% stumper $358 avg J:5 DJ:21 FJ:2

J $100 1997 In 1930, 2 years after divorcing Archibald Christie, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan

DJ $600 1996 In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire

FJ 2025 At age 26 in April 1917, she passed the assistant's exam for London's Society of Apothecaries

Dashiell Hammett 16x 14.3% stumper $1,100 avg J:2 DJ:12 FJ:2

J $200 2009 Sam Spade

DJ $800 2007 This author's work as a private detective with Pinkerton lent authenticity to "The Maltese Falcon"

DJ $1,000 2001 In "Julia", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover

John Grisham 15x 16.7% stumper $550 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:3

J $200 2014 "Pelican"(1992)

J $600 2016 "The King of Torts"(2003)

J $1,000 DD 2012 This novelist served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990

Gore Vidal 8x 28.6% stumper $386 avg J:1 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $100 1992 He dedicated his novel "1876" to Claire Bloom, not Myra Breckinridge

DJ $600 1998 He dedicated his novel "Myra Breckenridge" to novelist & playwright Christopher Isherwood

FJ 2013 This author who passed away in 2012 quipped, "For those who haven't read the books, I am known best for my hair preparations"

Should-Know (12)

Bram Stoker 7x $467 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 1999 "The Lady Of The Shroud","The Mystery Of The Sea","Dracula"

DJ $1,200 2026 Jonathan Harker

FJ 1999 Once a drama critic in his native Dublin, he toured the U.S. as an actor's manager, but never visited Romania

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7x $1,483 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1991 This author lived at 23 Montague Place facing the British Museum, not at 221B Baker Street

DJ $1,200 2009 In 1890 he gave up practicing medicine for full-time writing; in 1902, he was knighted

FJ 2017 His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930"

Tom Clancy 6x $333 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 2015 This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013

DJ $800 2009 Marko Ramius, John Kelly (aka Mr. Clark), Jack Ryan

DJ $200 1997 In 1989 both the hardcover & paperback editions of his “Cardinal of the Kremlin” were bestsellers

Sue Grafton 6x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $400 2009 Kinsey Millhone

DJ $600 2001 A sleuth named Kinsey Millhone is the heroine of her Alphabet Mysteries

FJ 2018 After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y"

Mary Higgins Clark 6x 83.3% stumper $1,533 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2001 "Deck The Halls", a Christmas thriller, was a joint effort by Carol Higgins Clark & this author, her mom

DJ $800 1997 This "The Cradle Will Fall" author's first book was a biography of George Washington

DJ $1,000 1999 Several of her suspense novels including "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" derive their titles from old songs

Margaret Truman 6x 16.7% stumper $567 avg DJ:6

DJ $200 1994 In addition to mysteries, this presidential daughter has written a biography of her mother, Bess

DJ $600 1991 "Murder in the Supreme Court"

DJ $1,000 DD 1988 Mystery novelist who turned to non-fiction with a 1986 biography of Bess Truman

Dick Francis 6x $1,000 avg DJ:4 FJ:2

DJ $800 1998 A jockey who raced in the Grand National, his mysteries usually have a horse-racing theme

DJ $1,600 2020 Philip K.______Ford Coppola

FJ 2001 In May 1973 Sports Illustrated ran one of his short stories under the title "A Day of Wine and Roses"

Alex Haley 6x $360 avg J:1 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 At the time of his death in 1992, he was researching his paternal "Roots"

DJ $600 1994 He spent 20 years researching "Queen", & wrote a 700-page outline, but didn't live to write the book

FJ 2000 A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962

Sara Paretsky 5x 40.0% stumper $1,080 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 1996 Her "Windy Cty Blues" is a collection of nine stories featuring V.I. Warshawski

DJ $1,000 2001 V.I. Warshawski

DJ $1,000 1996 This creator of V.I. Warshawski co-founded Sisters in Crime, an organization for women mystery writers

Robert Ludlum 5x 80.0% stumper $1,160 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $800 1986 With "Bourne Supremacy", a sequel to "Bourne Identity," you could call this author Bourne again

J $1,000 2016 "The Aquitaine Progression"(1984)

DJ $1,000 DD 1997 This master of the espionage thriller has written 3 books about top assassin Jason Bourne

Raymond Chandler 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2001 Philip Marlowe

DJ $600 1990 "Farewell, My Lovely"

J $1,000 2018 Born in Chicago in 1888, made "The Long Goodbye" & went to "The Big Sleep" on March 26, 1959

James Patterson 4x 66.7% stumper $667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2013 Alex Cross, Daniel X

DJ $800 2019 This author of the Michael Bennett thrillers:"If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft"

FJ 2010 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

Worth Knowing (6)

John Jakes 3 Dorothy Sayers 3 William S. Burroughs 2 Tony Hillerman 2 Nancy Drew 2 Christopher Darden 2

British Literature

16 answers | 135 clues

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Virginia Woolf 17x 25.0% stumper $1,138 avg J:1 DJ:15 FJ:1

DJ $200 1987 She was writing her 1st novel, "The Voyage Out", when she married Leonard Woolf in 1912

DJ $800 DD 2024 Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore"

DJ $1,000 1996 This British author dedicated her 1928 novel "Orlando" to Vita Sackville-West

Sinclair Lewis 14x 21.4% stumper $900 avg J:3 DJ:11

DJ $400 1997 In order to write his 1922 novel "Babbitt", this author studied real estate

J $600 2003 His "Hike and the Aeroplane" of 1912 didn't exactly put him on the Main Street of success

J $1,000 2015 Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome

Robert Louis Stevenson 14x 28.6% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:11

DJ $400 2004 Molokai wasn't his "Treasure Island"; he called it the "most distressful country that ever yet was seen"

DJ $800 2013 With the success of novels like "Treasure Island" for this author, the law would have to wait; he never practiced

DJ $1,200 2002 (Jeff Probst in the Marquesas.) In 1888 this adventure author & his wife Fanny spent about three weeks on Nuku Hiva

Laura Ingalls Wilder 12x 8.3% stumper $892 avg J:3 DJ:9

DJ $200 1998 Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder

J $800 2014 Items at her museum include Pa's fiddle, tools made by Almanzo & handwritten manuscripts for her novels

DJ $1,600 2021 At 16, shewas a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65

George Orwell 11x 30.0% stumper $700 avg J:4 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $200 2001 Big Brother could tell you his real name was Eric Arthur Blair

J $600 2024 Back from Burma in the 1930s, this Brit took his pen name from the reigning king & a local river

J $1,000 2005 In 2002 Christopher Hitchens published a book called "Why" this great anti-totalitarian writer "Matters"

Graham Greene 10x 60.0% stumper $1,080 avg DJ:10

DJ $400 1991 Hey, man, he wrote "Our Man in Havana", "The Third Man" & "The Human Factor"

DJ $600 1986 Author of "The 3rd Man", Robert Louis Stevenson was his 1st cousin once removed

DJ $1,000 1996 In 1986 this author of "Our Man in Havana" was named to Britain's Order of Merit

Oscar Wilde 10x $1,311 avg DJ:9 FJ:1

DJ $400 2010 This Irish wit did 2 years of hard labor for "gross indecency"

DJ $800 2002 A scandalous Irishman, my parents were also writers:I LACE WORDS

DJ $2,000 2008 It was this author, not the wallpaper, who went on Nov. 30, 1900

Daniel Defoe 10x $610 avg J:1 DJ:9

DJ $200 1995 Born in London in 1660, this "Robinson Crusoe" author was the son of a tallow chandler

DJ $1,000 1991 He was only 5 when the plague ravaged London; he wrote his "Journal of the Plague Year" 57 years later

DJ $200 1994 This author of "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded as one of the founders of the English novel

Jonathan Swift 9x 37.5% stumper $1,550 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 2014 Brobdingnag

J $600 2016 He's the sometimes bitter Irish-born 18th century satirist seen here

DJ $6,000 DD 2008 After Oct. 19, 1745 he would make no more modest proposals

Should-Know (3)

Dublin 7x $486 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1996 Among the female novelist born in this Irish capital were Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Bowen & Maeve Binchy

DJ $800 2021 Ordained in 1695, Jonathan Swift spent 30 years as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in this city

DJ $400 2023 Showing the Irish warts & all, J.M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" caused riots in this capital in 1907

William Makepeace Thackeray 7x 14.3% stumper $614 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $200 2000 Like Dickens, this "Vanity Fair" contemporary left his last novel, "Denis Duval", unfinished

DJ $600 1997 This "Vanity Fair" author's novel "The Virginians", is a sequel to "Henry Esmond"

DJ $1,000 1992 Born in Calcutta, this "Vanity Fair" author was sent to live in England after his father died

John Irving 4x 25.0% stumper $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2015 This author of "The Hotel New Hampshire" was born in New Hampshire in 1942

DJ $1,200 2018 The title boy hits a foul ball that kills his friend's mom in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by this novelist

DJ $400 2012 Jenny Garp, one of the title character's kids

Worth Knowing (4)

Ingalls 3 Charlotte Bronte 3 George R.R. Martin 2 Edinburgh 2

Shakespeare

7 answers | 63 clues

Must-Know (3)

William Faulkner 26x 12.0% stumper $936 avg J:5 DJ:20 FJ:1

J $200 2003 "The Hamlet" is 1/3 of his trilogy about the Snopes family

DJ $600 1994 This Southerner detailed the decline of the Compson family in his 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury"

J $1,000 2019 Mississippians Caddy Compson & Thomas Sutpen

H.G. Wells 12x 27.3% stumper $564 avg J:4 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $200 1998 If his "Time Machine" took you back to the 1880s, you'd find him working as an apprentice draper

J $800 2014 "Moreau"(1896)

J $1,000 2016 Hesaw a lot of 20th century innovations coming before anyone else

Isabel Allende 10x $1,275 avg DJ:8 FJ:2

DJ $800 2015 Her uncle was president of Chile from 1970 to 1973

DJ $1,000 1993 This author of "The House of the Spirits" is the niece of former President Salvador Allende

FJ 2020 2 events figure prominently in her 2003 memoir: a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 & the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Should-Know (2)

James Fenimore Cooper 6x 33.3% stumper $533 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 1988 Mark Twain said this man "scored 114 offenses against literary art" on just 1 page of "The Deerslayer"

DJ $800 2018 "The Deerslayer"

DJ $1,200 2014 "'I scent the Hurons,' he said, speaking to the Mohicans; 'Yonder is open sky, through the tree-tops'"

William Shakespeare 5x $300 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2023 In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague

DJ $400 2002 Writer of 37 plays & 154 sonnets:WE ALL MAKE HIS PRAISE

J $100 1992 Boris Pasternak translated 2 of this author's plays into Russian as "Gamlet" & "Romeo y Julieta"

Worth Knowing (2)

the Marquis de Sade 2 Ben Jonson 2

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