| DOCTOROW | E L _, American author whose novels include Ragtime (1975) |
| ELDOCTOROW | American author whose novels include Ragtime and Billy Bathgate |
| ENGLE | Madeleine L'___ (American author of 1962 book A Wrinkle in Time) |
| AMBROSE | C E L ___, West Indies Test cricketer who took 8-45 against England at Bridgetown in 1990 (7) |
| STEIN | Gertrude ___, American author whose works include The Autobiography Of Alice B Toklas (5) |
| BRADBURY | Ray ___, American author whose works include the novel Fahrenheit 451 |
| DOERR | Anthony ___, American author whose 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| MCCARTHY | Cormac _, American writer whose novels include No Country For Old Men (8) |
| ELLIS | Bret Easton - --, American author whose novels include American Psycho (5) |
| FITZGERALD | F Scott _, American writer whose works included The Great Gatsby (1925) |
| ANNETYLER | American author whose novels include The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons (4,5) |
| STEPHENKING | American author whose novels include Carrie, The Shining and Misery (7,4) |
| PETERBENCHLEY | American author whose novels include Jaws and The Deep |
| ISABEL | _ Allende, Chilean-American author whose novels include Violeta and City of the Beasts (6) |
| EDNAFERBER | American author whose novels include Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant (4.6) |
| SALINGER | J D _, American writer whose most famous work was The Catcher In The Rye (1951) |
| BUSHNELL | Candace ___, American writer whose newspaper column inspired the TV series Sex And The City (8) |
| JOHNLUTZ | American author whose novels include SWF Seeks Same, filmed in 1992 as Single White Female (4,4) |
| NORMANMAILER | American writer whose novels include The Naked and the Dead |
| CALDWELL | Erskine ---, American writer whose novels include Tobacco Road (8) |
