| BEHN | Author of works including The Rover (play, 1677) and Oroonoko (novel, 1688), considered to have been England's first professional female writer (5,4) |
| APHRA | Author of works including The Rover (play, 1677) and Oroonoko (novel, 1688), considered to have been England's first professional female writer (5,4) |
| APHRABEHN | Author regarded as England's first professional female writer; The Rover (comic play, 1677), Oroonoko (novel, 1688) etc. (5,4) |
| ROVER | The ___, play by Aphra Behn produced and published in two parts in 1677 and 1681 (5) |
| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Irish author of works including The Vicar of Wakefield (novel, 1766) and She Stoops to Conquer (play, 1773) (6,9) |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author of works including The Turn (novel, 1902) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (play, (1921); Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) (10) |
| WALTER | And 24 English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,2,2,4) |
| BEHAN | Brendan ___, Irish author of works including The Quare Fellow (play, 1956) and Borstal Boy (novel, 1958) (5) |
| DELAMARE | English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,224) |
| WOOLF | Virginia -; author of works including A Room of One's Own and the novel inspired by Vita Sackville-West titled Orlando (5) |
| COCTEAU | Jean , French author of works including Les Enfants terribles (novel, 1929) and La Machine infernale (play, 1934) (7) |
| VOLTAIRE | Pseudonym of French writer and philosopher Francois Marie Arouet, author of works including the 1759 satire Candide (8) |
| BABBAGE | 19th- century English mathematician and inventor whose Analytical Engine is considered to have been the first computer (7,7) |
| CRONIN | AJ ___ (1896-1981), Scottish author of works including The Citadel and Country Doctor (6) |
| BARBUSSE | Henri ___, French author of works including the Prix Goncourt-winning wartime novel Le Feu (Under Fire, 1916) (8) |
| MILNE | Alan Alexander ___, British author of works including Mr. Pim Passes By (play, 1919) and When We Were Very Young (poetry, 1924) (5) |
| IRIS | _ Murdoch, author of works including The Good Apprentice (4) |
| HESPERUS | In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, he is the evening star; his parentage and family is a bit confused, but he often is considered to have links to Atlas. In All's Well That Ends Well (act 2, scene |
| EDGEWORTH | Maria ___, Anglo-Irish author of works including 1800's Castle Rackrent (9) |
| REGARDED | Considered to have been taken into account (8) |
