| MORRISON | US novelist, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 (8) |
| TONI | US novelist, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 (4) |
| TONIMORRISON | American author, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in 1931, who died earlier this month (4,8) |
| FRANCESHODGSONBURNETT | US novelist, born in Manchester, who wrote The Secret Garden |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir --, US novelist born in Russia (7) |
| THEODORE | ____ Dreiser, U.S. novelist born in 1871 noted for his novel Sister Carrie (8) |
| MOHAYDER | Crime novelist born in 1962, noted for her debut novel Birdman (2,6) |
| NESBIT | Novelist born in London in 1858 who wrote The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It, T |
| BAINBRIDGE | Novelist born in Liverpool in 1932 remembered for books including The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory |
| WEST | Direction in which the sun sets; or, the novelist born Cicin Isabel Fairfield whose Aubrey Trilogy comprises The Fountain Overflows. This Real Night and Cousin Rosamund (4) |
| BARBARAPYM | English novelist born in 1913 who specialised in social comedies (7,3) |
| DAPHNEDUMAURIER | Novelist born in 1907 who created the housekeeper Mrs Danvers (6,2,7) |
| IANFLEMING | Spy novelist born in 1908 who had an estate in Jamaica called GoldenEye (3,7) |
| STEVENSON | Scottish novelist, born 1850, who died in the Pacific islands aged 44 (9) |
| ANNEBRONTE | English novelist born in 1820 who wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (4,6) |
| GARCIAMARQUEZ | Gabriel, Colombian novelist born in 1927 noted for his novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude (6,7) |
| DAVID | ____ Baldacci, U.S. novelist born in 1960 noted for his legal thrillers (5) |
| GRAHAMGREENE | English novelist, born 1904, whose work includes Brighton Rock and The Quiet American (6,6) |
| COMA | French novelist, born 1840, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1902 (4) |
| ROSETREMAIN | Novelist, born 1943, who attended the University of East Anglia and later taught creative writing there |
