| The law works in mysterious ways in "Sparring Partners", a 2022 collection of novellas by this king of legal thrillers |
Grisham |
200 |
October 28, 2022 |
| Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism |
(Alice) Walker |
400 |
October 28, 2022 |
| This Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead begins, "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no" |
<i>The Underground Railroad</i> |
600 |
October 28, 2022 |
| Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir "Crying in" this Asian grocery chain |
H Mart |
800 |
October 28, 2022 |
| A small-town girl becomes a Broadway star, not a nun, in this first novel by Theodore Dreiser |
<i>Sister Carrie</i> |
1000 |
October 28, 2022 |
| He invented the word "manxome" to describe a character in "Jabberwocky" |
(Lewis) Carroll |
200 |
October 6, 2022 |
| He did window displays for a toy store before writing & illustrating kids' classics like "Where the Wild Things Are" |
Sendak |
400 |
October 6, 2022 |
| In "The Warmth of Other Suns", Isabel Wilkerson tells of the "Great" this, an Exodus of African Americans from the South to the North |
Migration |
600 |
October 6, 2022 |
| Mitch McDeere joins the law practice of Bendini, Lambert & Locke in this thriller by John Grisham |
<i>The Firm</i> |
800 |
October 6, 2022 |
| In "The Family Chao", author lan Samantha Chang reimagined this Dostoyevsky classic using a Chinese-American family |
<i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> |
|
October 6, 2022 |
| An H. Rider Haggard novel from 1885 saw Allan Quatermain looking for this king's mines |
Solomon |
200 |
September 20, 2021 |
| Anthony Bourdain wrote a 2001 book about this New York woman who was very infectious in the kitchen in the early 1900s |
Typhoid Mary |
400 |
September 20, 2021 |
| In "Gub Gub's Book", by the creator of Dr. Dolittle, this type of animal tells of truffles & more |
pig |
600 |
September 20, 2021 |
| Outside the Ansonia, Connecticut Public Library, a memorial fountain & horse trough honors this "Black Beauty" author |
Anna Sewell |
1000 |
September 20, 2021 |
| "War & Peace" opens in this year, 7 years before a fateful invasion |
1805 |
|
September 20, 2021 |
| Rachel Chu heads to Singapore with her ultra-wealthy boyfriend in this 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan |
<i>Crazy Rich Asians</i> |
200 |
July 30, 2021 |
| This "miserable" guy says, "I was a convict. I have spent nineteen years in prison" |
Jean Valjean |
400 |
July 30, 2021 |
| The Richardson family's house is a victim of arson in this bestseller by Celeste Ng, adapted as a Hulu miniseries |
<i>Little Fires Everywhere</i> |
600 |
July 30, 2021 |
| Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" is modeled on this author's "Howards End" |
Forster |
800 |
July 30, 2021 |
| Christopher Isherwood is known for stories based on life in this European city in the 1930s; here's how he looked in that decade |
Berlin |
1000 |
July 30, 2021 |
| Here's an image from the cover of this royal fable |
<i>The Little Prince</i> |
200 |
September 24, 2020 |
| Based on true events, recent stories of the holocaust include "The Librarian of" & "The Tattooist of" this notorious place |
Auschwitz |
400 |
September 24, 2020 |
| Kya Clark, known as the "Marsh Girl", is suspected of murder in Delia Owens' No. 1 bestseller "Where" these "Sing" |
the Crawdads |
600 |
September 24, 2020 |
| Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family |
<i>In Cold Blood</i> |
800 |
September 24, 2020 |
| In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book |
corrections |
1000 |
September 24, 2020 |
| In 2015 she published "It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!" |
Chelsea Clinton |
200 |
July 5, 2018 |
| At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic |
Mary Shelley |
400 |
July 5, 2018 |
| Here's an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable |
Victor Hugo |
600 |
July 5, 2018 |
| He followed up "Between the World and Me" with "We Were Eight Years in Power" |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
800 |
July 5, 2018 |
| His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
|
July 5, 2018 |
| Time magazine's 1951 review of this novel said Holden Caulfield's code is "survival of the flippest" |
<i>Catcher in the Rye</i> |
200 |
November 3, 2017 |
| Robert James Waller, who passed away in 2017, was best known for this bittersweet tale set in Iowa |
<i>The Bridges of Madison County</i> |
400 |
November 3, 2017 |
| The preface to Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" was written by this lover & fellow author |
Anais Nin |
600 |
November 3, 2017 |
| This blockbuster novel by William P. Young about a spiritual journey was made into a 2017 film |
<i>The Shack</i> |
800 |
November 3, 2017 |
| His 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States |
Sinclair Lewis |
1000 |
November 3, 2017 |
| In 2016 Bruce Springsteen released an autobiography called this, a title he'd used before |
<i>Born to Run</i> |
200 |
March 31, 2017 |
| The first part of this H.G. Wells novel is "The Coming of the Martians"; part 2 is "The Earth Under the Martians" |
<i>War of the Worlds</i> |
400 |
March 31, 2017 |
| "Deep Down" & "Never Go Back" are 2 of Lee Child's tales about this tough ex-Army guy |
(Jack) Reacher |
600 |
March 31, 2017 |
| This giant of African-American lit was named after another literary great: Emerson |
(Ralph Waldo) Ellison |
800 |
March 31, 2017 |
| A little bird told me that this Kristin Hannah novel is the story of 2 French sisters living through World War II |
<i>The Nightingale</i> |
1000 |
March 31, 2017 |
| Readers had to wait 13 years between his first novel "Catch-22", & his next, "Something Happened" |
Joseph Heller |
200 |
September 30, 2016 |
| Curtis Sittenfeld made Liz' older sister Jane a yoga instructor in "Eligible", a retelling of this classic |
<i>Pride and Prejudice</i> |
400 |
September 30, 2016 |
| After a little hocus pocus, this author's signature turns into a self-portrait |
Kurt Vonnegut |
600 |
September 30, 2016 |
| A socialist newspaper sent him to investigate Chicago stockyards; the result was "The Jungle" |
Sinclair |
800 |
September 30, 2016 |
| "The Mufti Who Tried to Close Our School" is a chapter in the memoir "I Am" this person |
<i>Malala</i> |
1000 |
September 30, 2016 |
| He reworked a novel called "Stephen Hero" into "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
James Joyce |
200 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" |
<i>In Cold Blood</i> |
400 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Hugo novel evokes medieval life under the reign of Louis XI |
<i>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame</i> |
600 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This author of "Doctor Zhivago" studied philosophy at Moscow University & the University of Marburg |
Pasternak |
800 |
July 19, 2012 |
| The narrator of this Poe story says, "above all was the sense of hearing acute" |
<i>The Tell-Tale Heart</i> |
1000 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Ernest Hemingway love story that takes place during WWI was one of Penguin Books' first 10 titles |
<i>A Farewell to Arms</i> |
200 |
November 8, 2010 |
| The middle initial of this author of "The Good Earth" stood for Sydenstricker, her maiden name |
(Pearl) Buck |
400 |
November 8, 2010 |
| This Khaled Hosseini novel is about Amir, who flees Kabul for America |
<i>The Kite Runner</i> |
600 |
November 8, 2010 |
| The bestselling novel "Freedom" has put him back in Oprah's Book Club & good graces |
Jonathan Franzen |
800 |
November 8, 2010 |
| This "Remembrance of Things Past" author was so deathly afraid of germs he wouldn't pick up a pen if he had dropped it |
(Marcel) Proust |
1000 |
November 8, 2010 |
| First name of young Mr. Fowl, whose adventures include "The Time Paradox" & "The Lost Colony" |
Artemis |
200 |
November 10, 2009 |
| This Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is the biography of a certain Witch of the West |
<i>Wicked</i> |
400 |
November 10, 2009 |
| Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials" begins with "The Golden" this |
<i>Compass</i> |
600 |
November 10, 2009 |
| In 2009 she headed out of "The Hills" & published her first novel, "L.A. Candy" |
Lauren Conrad |
800 |
November 10, 2009 |
| In a book by Trenton Lee Stewart, 4 gifted kids answer an ad & become "The Mysterious" this "Society" |
Benedict |
1000 |
November 10, 2009 |
| Disillusioned by the Spanish Civil War, this British author wrote against totalitarianism in "Animal Farm" |
(George) Orwell |
200 |
January 15, 2009 |
| She dedicated both "Atlas Shrugged" & "The Fountainhead" to Frank O'Connor |
Ayn Rand |
400 |
January 15, 2009 |
| This Edith Frome New York City penned "Ethan Frome" in 1911 |
(Edith) Wharton |
600 |
January 15, 2009 |
| She wrote about her early life in' "The Mill On The Floss" |
(George) Eliot |
1000 |
January 15, 2009 |
| The first line of his 1951 novel mentions a "lousy childhood ... and all that David Copperfield kind of crap" |
J.D. Salinger |
|
January 15, 2009 |
| In "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, teenaged Isabella Swan falls for a romantic one of these blood-suckers |
a vampire |
200 |
September 19, 2008 |
| "The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state |
Maine |
400 |
September 19, 2008 |
| "Forever in" this color is Ann Brashares' third sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" |
blue |
600 |
September 19, 2008 |
| Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" |
Agatha Christie |
800 |
September 19, 2008 |
| Sebastian Faulks penned the new James Bond novel "Devil May Care" for the 100th anniv. of this author's birth |
Ian Fleming |
1000 |
September 19, 2008 |
| In 1998 her "Pandora" came out of the box as the first of her "New Tales of the Vampires" |
Anne Rice |
200 |
May 15, 2008 |
| Corruption runs rampant in Gore Vidal's historical novel named for this centennial year |
<i>1876</i> |
400 |
May 15, 2008 |
| "In the world according to Garp, we're all terminal cases", wrote this novelist |
John Irving |
600 |
May 15, 2008 |
| Kim Edwards called her memorable first novel "The Memory Keeper's" this |
<i>Daughter</i> |
800 |
May 15, 2008 |
| "The story of Nat Turner had been long gestating in my mind, ever since I was a boy", said this novelist |
William Styron |
1000 |
May 15, 2008 |
| This Steinbeck novel begins, "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came..." |
<i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> |
200 |
May 7, 2007 |
| A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in "Brave New World" by this man |
Aldous Huxley |
400 |
May 7, 2007 |
| In "The Prince" he wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved" |
Machiavelli |
600 |
May 7, 2007 |
| Perhaps the effort killed him--he died not long after completing his masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov" |
Dostoyevsky |
800 |
May 7, 2007 |
| The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic |
<i>The Wind in the Willows</i> |
1000 |
May 7, 2007 |
| In a classic book, d'Artagnan hopes to serve as a guard to King Louis XIII & is befriended by this title group |
<i>The Three Musketeers</i> |
200 |
July 7, 2006 |
| Tyrone Slothrop is a central character in his novel "Gravity's Rainbow" |
Pynchon |
400 |
July 7, 2006 |
| This "Invisible Man" author was working on a novel called "Juneteenth" when he died in 1994 |
Ellison |
600 |
July 7, 2006 |
| Part one of this Carson McCullers novel says Frankie "belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world" |
<i>The Member of the Wedding</i> |
800 |
July 7, 2006 |
| In 1912 this Polish-born author shared with readers "The Secret Sharer", a short story in English |
Joseph Conrad |
1000 |
July 7, 2006 |
| Tom Wolfe's award-winning book about our first astronauts, or what he proved he had by penning it |
<i>The Right Stuff</i> |
200 |
January 21, 2004 |
| This tale for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was a revision of his earlier story "On the Blue Water" |
<i>The Old Man and the Sea</i> |
400 |
January 21, 2004 |
| It's the English title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Cien Anos de Soledad" |
<i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> |
600 |
January 21, 2004 |
| His Alex Cross thrillers include "Roses are Red" & "Violets are Blue" |
James Patterson |
1000 |
January 21, 2004 |
| Sue Grafton began her letter-perfect alphabet mysteries with this book |
<i>A Is for Alibi</i> |
|
January 21, 2004 |
| In 2003 he returned with a new legal thriller, "The King of Torts" |
John Grisham |
200 |
September 10, 2003 |
| His 1994 novel "White Shark" didn't have quite the same bite as his "Jaws" |
Peter Benchley |
400 |
September 10, 2003 |
| In the U.S. Ian Fleming took a gamble & published this first novel of his under the title "You Asked For It" |
<i>Casino Royale</i> |
600 |
September 10, 2003 |
| An actress is recruited to infiltrate a terrorist group in this John le Carre bestseller -- pa rum pum pum pum |
<i>The Little Drummer Girl</i> |
800 |
September 10, 2003 |
| In the beginning was this Barbara Kingsolver saga of a Southern missionary & his family in the Belgian Congo |
<i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> |
1000 |
September 10, 2003 |
| An 1853 fire at his publisher's warehouse burned the remaining stock of his books, including "Moby Dick" |
Herman Melville |
100 |
May 17, 2001 |
| Joel Chandler Harris' book of this character's songs & sayings was subtitled "Legends of the Old Plantation" |
Uncle Remus |
200 |
May 17, 2001 |
| This Mississippian's first novel, "Soldier's Pay", was recommended to a publisher by Sherwood Anderson |
William Faulkner |
300 |
May 17, 2001 |
| He wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which was based on his 1962 novel |
Ray Bradbury |
400 |
May 17, 2001 |
| E.M. Forster's experience as a secretary to an Indian prince was put to good use in this 1924 novel |
<i>A Passage to India</i> |
500 |
May 17, 2001 |
| "The Naked and the Dead","Existential Errands","The Executioner's Song" |
Norman Mailer |
100 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "The Great American Novel","Zuckerman Bound","Portnoy's Complaint" |
Philip Roth |
200 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "Welcome to the Monkey House","Galapagos","Player Piano" |
Kurt Vonnegut |
300 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "The 158-Pound Marriage","The Cider House Rules","A Son of the Circus" |
John Irving |
400 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "No Name","The Woman in White","The Moonstone" |
Wilkie Collins |
500 |
February 21, 2000 |
| Mathematician Ian Malcolm confronts more dinosaurs in this 1995 Michael Crichton sequel |
"The Lost World" |
100 |
November 11, 1999 |
| In Frank Herbert titles, this word follows "Children of", "Heretics of" & "God Emperor of" |
"Dune" |
200 |
November 11, 1999 |
| "The Gunslinger" is the first volume of this Stephen King series |
"The Dark Tower" |
300 |
November 11, 1999 |
| This "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author wrote of his days in the RAF in "Going Solo" |
Roald Dahl |
500 |
November 11, 1999 |
| An attorney must search the Brazilian rain forest for a missing heir in his novel "The Testament" |
John Grisham |
|
November 11, 1999 |
| In 1998 Israel celebrated its 50th anniversary & this Leon Uris book celebrated its 40th |
<i>Exodus</i> |
100 |
October 16, 1998 |
| With "Pandora", she recently began a new series of vampire tales |
Anne Rice |
200 |
October 16, 1998 |
| In 1997 this author returned to his roots with "Wobegon Boy" |
Garrison Keillor |
300 |
October 16, 1998 |
| In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfiction works as "Submarine" & "Fighter Wing" |
Tom Clancy |
400 |
October 16, 1998 |
| E.L. Doctorow's novel "The Book of Daniel" was based on the espionage trial of this couple |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg |
500 |
October 16, 1998 |
| With no "Time to Kill", he recently turned out another legal thriller, "The Street Lawyer" |
John Grisham |
100 |
May 15, 1998 |
| This author is famous for giving readers "Goosebumps" & leading them down "Fear Street" |
R.L. Stine |
200 |
May 15, 1998 |
| In this Stephen King novel, author Paul Sheldon is held hostage by his No. 1 fan |
"Misery" |
300 |
May 15, 1998 |
| Sinclair Lewis dedicated this book about a real estate broker to Edith Wharton |
"Babbitt" |
400 |
May 15, 1998 |
| This author of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" is an ordained Unitarian minister |
Robert Fulghum |
500 |
May 15, 1998 |
| This "Godfather" author calls "The Fortunate Pilgrim", re-released in 1997, his best book |
Mario Puzo |
100 |
January 27, 1998 |
| In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
200 |
January 27, 1998 |
| His first novel "The White Peacock" preceded "Sons and Lovers" by 2 years |
D.H. Lawrence |
300 |
January 27, 1998 |
| Title of Kitty Kelley's 1997 bestseller about Britain's House of Windsor |
"The Royals" |
400 |
January 27, 1998 |
| "Perchance to Dream" with Philip Marlowe, is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this Raymond Chandler novel |
"The Big Sleep" |
|
January 27, 1998 |
| She dedicated her 1816 novel "Emma" to his royal highness, the Prince Regent |
Jane Austen |
100 |
November 25, 1996 |
| In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Evangeline St. Clair is better known by this nickname |
"Little Eva" |
200 |
November 25, 1996 |
| A notorious 1820s murder inspired this author of "All The King's Men" to write "World Enough and Time" |
Robert Penn Warren |
300 |
November 25, 1996 |
| A degenerate bootlegger named Popeye abducts college coed Temple Drake in his 1931 novel "Sanctuary" |
William Faulkner |
500 |
November 25, 1996 |
| It's the city in Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" |
San Francisco |
|
November 25, 1996 |
| Soon after arriving in Key West in 1928, he completed "A Farewell to Arms" |
Hemingway |
100 |
May 13, 1996 |
| Lucy Westenra becomes a vampire in this 1897 Bram Stoker novel |
<i>Dracula</i> |
200 |
May 13, 1996 |
| Her mysteries include "Murder in Mesopotamia", "Murder at Hazelmoor" & "Murder on the Orient Express" |
Agatha Christie |
300 |
May 13, 1996 |
| The 1st American Book Award for General Nonfiction Hardcover went to him for "The Right Stuff" |
Tom Wolfe |
500 |
May 13, 1996 |
| His son Christopher edited his "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle-Earth before Hobbits |
Tolkien |
|
May 13, 1996 |
| This Michael Crichton novel concerns the cloning of dinosaur DNA |
<i>Jurassic Park</i> |
100 |
February 13, 1995 |
| "There was something vampiric about rock music" is a quote from her novel "The Vampire Lestat" |
Anne Rice |
200 |
February 13, 1995 |
| Part one of this Victor Hugo epic is called "Fantine" |
<i>Les Miserables</i> |
300 |
February 13, 1995 |
| His original title for "Of Human Bondage" was "Beauty from Ashes", a misquotation from Isaiah |
Somerset Maugham |
400 |
February 13, 1995 |
| His novel "Ivanhoe" opens "In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the River Don" |
Sir Walter Scott |
500 |
February 13, 1995 |
| The first book of Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" is called "The Jewel in" this |
the Crown |
100 |
July 18, 1994 |
| Nelson Algren wrote "The Man with the Golden Arm" & Ian Fleming wrote this book with a similar title |
<i>The Man with the Golden Gun</i> |
200 |
July 18, 1994 |
| This "devilish" 1967 novel by Ira Levin inspired a "rebirth" of occult fiction |
<i>Rosemary\'s Baby</i> |
300 |
July 18, 1994 |
| His unfinished novel "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens in an opium den |
Charles Dickens |
400 |
July 18, 1994 |
| He wrote "The Positive Power of Jesus Christ" as well as "The Power of Positive Thinking" |
Norman Vincent Peale |
500 |
July 18, 1994 |
| John Norton, quartermaster of this ship is set adrift with Capt. Bligh in a Nordhoff & Hall work |
the <i>Bounty</i> |
100 |
January 18, 1994 |
| Umberto Eco's novel "Il Nome Della Rosa" was published under this title in English |
<i>The Name of the Rose</i> |
200 |
January 18, 1994 |
| Though he lived until 1961, he didn't complete another novel until after 1934's "The Thin Man" |
Dashiell Hammett |
300 |
January 18, 1994 |
| His novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" was first published as a serial in Cornhill Magazine |
Thomas Hardy |
400 |
January 18, 1994 |
| With Sigmund Freud, this physicist wrote "Why War?", published by The League of Nations |
(Albert) Einstein |
500 |
January 18, 1994 |
| Not surprisingly, in 1984 his "1984" was a bestseller |
George Orwell |
100 |
October 30, 1992 |
| Stephen Crane established his reputation with this novel of the Civil War |
<i>The Red Badge of Courage</i> |
200 |
October 30, 1992 |
| An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi" |
Mark Twain |
300 |
October 30, 1992 |
| This noted astronomer's lists of works include "Comet", "Contact" & "Cosmos" |
Carl Sagan |
100 |
May 30, 1991 |
| This Mark Twain novel starts a few days before the death of Henry VIII |
<i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> |
200 |
May 30, 1991 |
| H.H. Munro got his pen name, Sake, from this Persian collection of quatrains |
the <i>Rubáiyát (of Omar Khayyám</i>) |
300 |
May 30, 1991 |
| Nathan Zuckerman appears in the 6th of his novels starting with "My Life as a Man" through "The Counterlife" |
Philip Roth |
400 |
May 30, 1991 |
| This Belgian-born French novelist wrote over 200 novels, many about Inspector Maigret |
George Simenon |
500 |
May 30, 1991 |
| A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name |
Washington Irving |
100 |
April 8, 1991 |
| Poet & editor Wm. C. Bryant is known for his 1870-71 translations of these 2 Homeric works |
the <i>Iliad</i> & the <i>Odyssey</i> |
200 |
April 8, 1991 |
| In 1932 his wife, Zelda, wrote "Save Me the Waltz", a fictionalized account of their life together |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
100 |
July 19, 1990 |
| The dedication to this film director's autobiography reads, "To my daughters, Liza & Tina" |
Vincente Minnelli |
200 |
July 19, 1990 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez won an L.A. Times Prize for Fiction for "Love in the Time of" this |
Cholera |
300 |
July 19, 1990 |
| This Canadian-born author won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for "Humboldt's Gift" |
Saul Bellow |
400 |
July 19, 1990 |
| David Lifton's "Best Evidence" takes another look at this historic event |
the Kennedy assassination |
500 |
July 19, 1990 |
| "Come on Down!!!" by Jefferson Graham covers this genre of TV programs |
game shows |
100 |
October 12, 1988 |
| Called the "Man of a Thousand Voices", his autobiography is titled "That's Not All, Folks" |
Mel Blanc |
200 |
October 12, 1988 |
| "This Week" host who recounts his WWII experiences in "Washington Goes to War" |
(David) Brinkley |
300 |
October 12, 1988 |
| Chapter 21, with the hero's redemption, was not included in U.S. editions of this 1962 A. Burgess book |
<i>A Clockwork Orange</i> |
400 |
October 12, 1988 |
| Completes the title of Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1st novel about Emma Harte, "A Woman of..." |
Substance |
500 |
October 12, 1988 |
| Bruce Catton is best known for writing books about this event |
the Civil War |
100 |
June 13, 1988 |
| Her 1st novel was "Little House in the Big Woods" |
Laura Ingalls (Wilder) |
200 |
June 13, 1988 |
| Ex-wife who coyly called her scandalous 1988 autobiography "The Prize Pulitzer" |
Roxanne Pulitzer |
300 |
June 13, 1988 |
| "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" was 1 of only 2 novels written by this playwright |
Tennessee Williams |
400 |
June 13, 1988 |
| The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the setting for her 1930 novel "Cimarron" |
Edna Ferber |
500 |
June 13, 1988 |
| A copy of this 1841 Victor Hugo novel may have a straight spine, but the main character doesn't |
<i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i> |
100 |
April 20, 1988 |
| One of his poems reads, in its entirety, "The cow is of the bovine ilk: one end is moo, the other milk" |
Ogden Nash |
200 |
April 20, 1988 |
| He met his wife Zelda at an Alabama country club dance in 1918 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
300 |
April 20, 1988 |
| Created by P.G. Wodehouse, he's the perfect English gentleman's gentleman |
Jeeves |
400 |
April 20, 1988 |
| Gene Fowler said writing is easy: "All you do is stare at" this "until drops of blood form on your forehead" |
the page (blank sheet of paper) |
500 |
April 20, 1988 |
| In the last 50 years, this Dale Carnegie book has sold more than 15 million hardcover copies |
<i>How to Win Friends and Influence People</i> |
100 |
November 2, 1987 |
| Author of "The Witches of Eastwick" |
John Updike |
200 |
November 2, 1987 |
| W/encouragement from J. Susann, this "3's Company" star published a book of poetry "Touch Me" |
Suzanne Somers |
300 |
November 2, 1987 |
| E.B. White's "Little" mouse who made his debut in 1945 |
Stuart Little |
400 |
November 2, 1987 |
| Author of "The New York Times Cookbook" & food columnist for the paper |
Craig Claiborne |
500 |
November 2, 1987 |
| "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" she wrote in her 1st Hercule Poirot novel |
Agatha Christie |
100 |
June 19, 1987 |
| Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 guide for the unattached female |
<i>Sex and the Single Girl</i> |
200 |
June 19, 1987 |
| Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein used this pen name when he wrote "Day of the Locust" |
Nathanael West |
300 |
June 19, 1987 |
| In contrast to his heavy Asian epics, he says his light weight "Trump-O-Moto" won't give you a hernia |
James Clavell |
400 |
June 19, 1987 |
| Elie Wiesel writes his books in this language; his wife translates them into English |
French |
500 |
June 19, 1987 |
| Wm. E.E. Owens' "One Man vs. the Establishment" has been rejected by a record 137 of these |
publishers |
100 |
December 23, 1985 |
| Queen of mysteries who also wrote "straight" novels under the name Mary Westmacott |
Agatha Christie |
200 |
December 23, 1985 |
| Critics called this character 1st introduced in "Life on the Mississippi", "a noble savage" |
Huckleberry Finn |
300 |
December 23, 1985 |
| Literary social movement of the '50s advocating nonconformity, poverty, & jazz |
Beat movement (Generation) |
400 |
December 23, 1985 |