| AMYTAN | American writer best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (3,3) |
| ALGREN | Nelson ___, American writer best known for the 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm |
| ATWOOD | Margaret ---, Canadian author who was joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her novel The Testaments (6) |
| HOLTBY | Winifred ___, English writer best known for her novel South Riding (6) |
| LONDON | Margaret _, American writer best known for her 1944 novel Anna And The King Of Siam (6) |
| BIERCE | Ambrose ___, American writer best known for his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon The Devil's Dictionary |
| ALCOTT | American author best known for Little Women (6) |
| PLATH | "I shut my eyes and all drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." This American poet is perhaps best known for her novel The Bell Jar. |
| COOPER | Jilly, English author born in 1937 noted for her novel Riders and the Rutshire Chronicles (6) |
| HARVEY | English novelist who won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital (8,6) |
| BUCK | The last name of the woman who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for her novel, "The Good Earth" (or slang word for a dollar) |
| ALLENDE | Isabel, writer noted for her novel The House Of The Spirits, published in 1982 (7) |
| PRAWER | Ruth _ Jhabvala, late author who won the 1975 Booker Prize for her novel Heat And Dust (6) |
| DONNA | ____ Tartt, writer born in 1963 noted for her novel The Secret History (5) |
| MARYSHELLEY | British writer best known for her novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (4,7) |
| NELSONALGREN | American writer best known for the 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm |
| EDITH | ____ Wharton, U.S. author noted for her novel The House Of Mirth published in 1905 (5) |
| PULITZER | US journalism & literature prize won by Alice Walker in 1983 for her novel, The Colour Purple |
| BAGNOLD | Author best known for her novel National Velvet who also wrote A Diary Without Dates and plays including The Chalk Garden and A Matter of Gravity (7) |
| COLETTE | French novelist, 1873-1954, best known for her novel Gigi (7) |
