| PROULX | Annie, author who wrote the short story Brokeback Mountain (6) |
| ANNIE | Pulitzer Prize winning author whose short story Brokeback Mountain was adapted into an Oscar-winning |
| EANNIEPROULX | Who wrote the short story on which Ang Lee based his 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? (1,5,6) |
| EMILE | Zola who wrote the short story collection "For a Night of Love" |
| RUE | Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story, The Murders In The ... Morgue (3) |
| PROSPERMERIMEE | French novelist who wrote the short stories Colomba, Carmen and La Venus d'Ille (7,7) |
| POE | "For Annie" author |
| GREENE | 20th-century English novelist whose works include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Potting Shed, Travels with My Aunt and the short story Went the Day Well? (6) |
| THOMAS | Welsh author of poetry, the radio drama Under Milk Wood and the short story illustrated by Edward Ardizzone titled A Child's Christmas in Wales (6) |
| IRVING | Washington --, author of the short story "Rip Van Winkle" (6) |
| ALCOTT | Author of Little Women and the short story A Christmas Dream (6) |
| RUNYON | Damon ___, author of the short story collections More Than Somewhat, Furthermore and Take It Easy (6) |
| OHENRY | The pen name of the short story writer William Sydney Porter (1,5) |
| ASIMOV | Isaac ---, Russian-born US writer whose science-fiction works included the short story collection I, Robot (6) |
| FITZGERALD | F. Scott -; novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (10) |
| KELMAN | James ___, Scottish author of the short story collection Not Not While the Giro (6) |
| GARP | Fictional author of the short story "The Pension Grillparzer" |
| CHEEVER | John --, author of the short story 'The Enormous Radio' (7) |
| FAULKNER | Nobel Prize-winning Mississipian author of the short story "The Bear" (8) |
| IDOL | The Fallen ___, 1948 Carol Reed film based on the short story The Basement Room by Graham Greene |
