| HUGHES | Author of children's books including the Alfie series (6) |
| WILSON | Jacqueline -; author of children's books including The Story of Tracy Beaker and Girls under Pressure (6) |
| BLYTON | Author of over 600 children's books including the Naughtiest Girl series (6) |
| SENDAK | Author of children's books including Kenny's Window, Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitc |
| LIVELY | Author of The Road to Lichfield, Heat Wave, the memoir Life in the Garden and a number of children's books including A Stitch in Time (6) |
| AIKEN | Author of children's books including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Nightbirds on Nantucket and The Cuckoo (5) |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| ENID | Author of children's books including The Magic Faraway Tree, _ Blyton (4) |
| ANGELL | Sir Norman -; author of some 50 books including The Great Illusion whose work was recognised with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933 (6) |
| GRAVES | Robert -; author of books including the historical novel I, Claudius and the autobiographical classic Goodbye to All That (6) |
| WATSON | Sherlock Holmes' assistant in Arthur Conan Doyle's books including The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| LARKIN | Family central to H. E. Bates' books including The Darling Buds of May and Oh! To be in England (6) |
| WALLIAMS | David _, actor and author of children's books including 2008's The Boy In The Dress (8) |
| DRSEUSS | Pen name of the author and illustrator of a number of children's books including Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat (2,5) |
| JUDGES | Bible book including the story of Samson and Delilah |
| UTTLEY | Alison, author of children's book Little Grey Rabbit (6) |
| HELEN | _ Cresswell, late author of children's books including Moondial (5) |
| WHITE | E(|wyn) B(rooks) ___, US author of children's books including Stuart Little (1945) |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| WEST | Pen name of the author of books including The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows, Sunflower and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (4) |
