| GIRLINTERRUPTED | 1993 memoir by the American author Susanna Kaysen (4,11) |
| LOVE | 2006 memoir by the American author Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, _ (4) |
| MOODIE | "Roughing It in the Bush" author Susanna |
| FANG | White _, 1906 novel by the American author Jack London (4) |
| ROUGHINGITINTHEBUSH | 1852 literary classic 'Forest Life in Canada' by born-in-england-in-1803 writer Susanna Moodie who settled in the British colony of Upper Canada in 1832: 5 wds. |
| ASHE | Athlete who wrote the 1993 memoir "Days of Grace" |
| SCARLET | The _ Letter, 1850 novel by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (7) |
| ELLA | Meet The Dog Who Saved My Life, 2024 memoir by the Princess of Wales's brother James Middleton (4) |
| ANGELASASHES | First memoir by the US-Irish writer Frank McCourt |
| EMMAWINTERTOWNE | Character in the novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke (4,11) |
| JONATHANSTRANGE | *Title character in a Susanna Clarke novel |
| DESMOINES | The home town of the American author Bill Bryson (3,6) |
| THESEUS | The American author eliminating last hero from Greece (7) |
| POETRY | The American writer has to attempt verse (6) |
| VALENTINE | Middle name of the American writer Henry Miller |
| CLEMENS | Real surname of the American writer Mark Twain (7) |
| ALCOTT | Surname of the American writer of Little Women (6) |
| STEADMAN | Ralph ___, British illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S Thompson |
| JAZZ | Musical genre that was named the Word of the Twentieth Century by the American Dialect Society |
| SOMELIKEITHOT | Film listed by the American Film Institute in 2000 as the greatest American comedy film of all time (4,4,2,3) |
