| GERMAINEGREER | Australian writer and whose first book, The Female Eunuch, was published in 1970 (8,5) |
| ROALDDAHL | British writer whose first book, The Gremlins, was written for Walt Disney (5,4) |
| POTTER | Author, illustrator and mycologist who in 1902 self-published her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (6) |
| STOODFOR | "Everybody knew who I was, and nobody knew what I ____" (Colin Wilson, on the success of his first book, The Outsider) |
| SANDYS | Duncan ___, Conservative MP who served as Defence Secretary in Harold Macmillan's government and whose first wife was Diana Churchill |
| DIOR | Christian ---, French designer who founded his fashion house in 1946 and whose first collection inspired the New Look style (4) |
| OREL | Hershiser who pitched a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings (and whose first name is aptly found in "scoreless") |
| GERALDDURRELL | British naturalist and author whose first book was entitled The Overloaded Ark (6,7) |
| ETHELANDERSON | Which English-born Australian writer published her poetry in two volumes, Squatter's Luck (1942) and Sunday at Yarralumla (1947)? (5,8) |
| NINETTEDUTTON | Which Australian writer of books on enamel art, cookery, gardening and fiction wrote the 2000 Home: |
| NEILMAGANTNER | Which US-born Australian writer used the pseudonym of Neilma Sidney and wrote Sunday Evening: storie |
| BARRYMAITLAND | Which UK-Australian writer created the Scotland Yard Brock and Kolla crime series of novels? (5,8) |
| SONYAHARTNETT | Which Australian writer, principally of young adult fiction, won the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial A |
| SCHINDLERSARK | Historical non-fiction novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally that won the Booker Prize in 1982 (10,3) |
| GREER | Writer and feminist best known for her revolutionary book The Female Eunuch, Germaine ... |
| ERNESTFAVENC | Born in England, which Australian writer and explorer published The Great Austral Plain (1881), an a |
| MILESFRANKLIN | Australian author of My Brilliant Career (Picture C) (5,8) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian writer and TV presenter whose autobiographical works include Falling Towards England |
| WATEN | Born in Russia and growing up in rural WA, whose account of a visit to the Soviet Union was From Odessa to Odessa: The Journey of an Australian Writer (1969) |
| BALDACCI | David, U.S. legal thriller writer whose first book Absolute Power was published in 1996 (8) |
