| BYATT | Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book (5) |
| ASBYATT | Literary critic and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession (1,1,5) |
| FLEMING | Ian -; author of the James Bond series of novels and the children's book Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (7) |
| PROPERTIES | Having possessions and the right connections (10) |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| SWIFT | Booker Prize-winning author of Shuttlecock, Waterland and Last Orders (5) |
| MUNRO | Nobel Prize-winning author of Lives of Girls and Women and The Moons of Jupiter; or, a Scottish mountain such as Ben Nevis or Lochnagar (5) |
| AUDEN | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Letters from Iceland, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio and of the poems published posthumously in the collection Thank You, Fog (5) |
| LURIE | Alison -; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (5) |
| ANNIE | Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Shipping News, E ... Proulx |
| DOYLE | 1993 Booker Prize-winning author (5) |
| CAREY | Australian Booker Prize-winning author, Peter ... |
| ENTER | Take possession and run away from tenant (5) |
| SEUSS | Middle name of Theodor Geisel, author of the children's book The Cat in the Hat (5) |
| OWNER | Person with possessions and endless renown, possibly (5) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun (8) |
| ENRIGHT | Anne -, 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering (7) |
| SPYRI | Johanna ?, Swiss author of the children's book Heidi (5) |
| MILNE | AA author of the children's book When We Were Very Young (5) |
| OTTER | Portly's father in the children's book The Wind In The Willows (5) |
