| OBAMA | Barack, U.S. ex-president whose memoir is entitled A Promised Land (5) |
| JULIA | Actress Fox whose memoir is entitled "Down the Drain" |
| NORTHUP | Solomon whose memoir is entitled Twelve Years a Slave |
| CARTER | Jimmy, U.S. ex-president who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work (6) |
| REAGAN | Ronald, U.S. ex-president nicknamed The Gipper (6) |
| HOGARTH | Surname of the artist responsible for a series of paintings entitled 'A Rake's Progress' (7) |
| FLORIO | Linguist and lexicographer remembered for his dictionary published in 1598 entitled A World of Words (6) |
| LENDL | Ivan, Czech-U.S. ex-tennis player who coached Andy Murray to his first Wimbledon men's singles title in 2013 (5) |
| SPITZ | Mark, U.S. ex-swimmer who won nine Olympic gold medals (5) |
| MOSES | Edwin, U.S. ex-400 metre hurdler who won two Olympic gold medals (5) |
| MAYLE | Author whose memoir A Year in Provence was adapted into a television mini-series starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan, and novel A Good Year into a film with Russell Crowe and Albert Finney (5) |
| FLOYD | ___ Mayweather Jr., undefeated U.S. ex-boxer (5) |
| TUCCI | Stanley, U.S. actor whose memoir Taste: My Life Through Food was published in 2021 (5) |
| STEIN | Rick, English chef whose memoir Under a Mackerel Sky was published in 2013 (5) |
| GREER | Bonnie, critic and broadcaster whose memoir A Parallel Life came out in 2014 (5) |
| NORTH | Mikey __, plays "s ex-boyfriend Gary Windass in Coronation Street (5) |
| WIGHT | Real surname of James Herriot, whose memoirs describing his life as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales form the basis of the films and serials titled All Creatures Great and Small (5) |
| SACKS | Neurologist whose memoir Awakenings based on encephalitis |
| TARA | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| KATHLEEN | US actress whose memoir is Send Yourself Roses, _ Turner (8) |
