| SAULBELLOW | Canadian-born US author of novels including Herzog (1964) |
| AYNRAND | (GKN) Russian-born US author of novels including The Fountainhead (1943) |
| ASIMOV | Isaac ---, Russian-born US author of the story collection I, Robot (6) |
| NEWCOMB | Simon --, Canadian-born US astronomer (1835-1909) (7) |
| ANKARA | Canadian-born US showman, and artist, provides capital (6) |
| RAND | Ayn -; Russian-born US author and philosopher whose novels include The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (4) |
| CRAZYRICHASIANS | Debut novel of Singaporean-born US author Kevin Kwan (2013), adapted to the big screen in 2018 (5,4,6) |
| BOYESEN | A Norwegian-born US writer, whose realistic urban novels include The Mammon of Unrighteousness (1891), and The Social Strugglers (1893)? (7) |
| TOMWOLFE | US author of novels including The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) (3,5) |
| ANNETYLER | US author of novels including If Morning Ever Comes (1964) and The Accidental |
| GALBRAITH | John Kenneth ___, Canadian-born US economist and diplomat who wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State |
| REMARQUE | German-born US author best-known for the 1929 World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front (5,5,8) |
| ERICH | German-born US author best-known for the 1929 World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front (5,5,8) |
| MARIA | German-born US author best-known for the 1929 World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front (5,5,8) |
| JOHN | And 19 US author of novels including 1939's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)(4,9) |
| STEINBECK | US author of novels including 1939's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)(4,9) |
| EDITHWHARTON | US author of novels including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence (1920) (5,7) |
| MARIOPUZO | US author of novels including The Godfather and The Sicilian (5,4) |
| NICOLE | US author of novels Great House and The History of Love (6,6) |
| ALICEWALKER | US author of novels including The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize, 1983) (5,6) |
