| BERYLBAINBRIDGE | Author whose first novel was Harriet Said..... in 1972 (5,10) |
| TORTOISE | What animal was Harriet, supposedly owned by Charles Darwin, then later by Steve Irwin? (8) |
| ERNESTHEMINGWAY | U.S. writer whose first novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926 (6,9) |
| COWLEY | New Zealand author whose first novel was Nest in a Falling Tree, in 1967 (6) |
| GIBBONS | Stella ___, English author whose first novel was Cold Comfort Farm (7) |
| BANKS | Scottish author whose first novel was The Wasp Factory (4,5) |
| IAIN | And 33 Scottish author whose first novel was The Wasp Factory (4,5) |
| HEYER | Georgette ___, English author whose first novel was The Black Moth (5) |
| EMFORSTER | Author whose first novel was Where angels fear to tread (1,1,7) |
| ERICAJONG | American author whose first novel was Fear of Flying |
| AUSTEN | Author whose first novel was anonymously published under the byline "By a Lady" |
| GENET | French author whose first novel was Notre-Dame des Fleurs (5) |
| MARTINAMIS | Author whose first novel was The Rachel Papers (64) |
| MAUGHAM | English writer whose first novel was Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897 (7) |
| DONDELILLO | US writer whose first novel was Americana in 1971 (3,7) |
| MELVILLE | US author whose first novel was 1846's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (8) |
| HERMAN | US author whose first novel was 1846's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (6) |
| CHINUAACHEBE | Nigerian writer whose first novel was Things Fall Apart (1958) |
| OBRIEN | Edna - - -, Irish writer whose first novel was The Country Girls (6) |
| EDNA | _ O'brien, Irish writer whose first novel was The Country Girls (1960) |
