| DOCTOROW | EL _, US novelist whose works included Billy Bathgate (8) |
| NORTE | El ___: America, in Mexico |
| FAULKNER | William ..., US novelist whose works were set in the southern states |
| IRALEVIN | American novelist whose works included Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives (3,5) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest _, US novelist whose works include 'The Sun Also Rises' (9) |
| UPDIKE | John _, US novelist whose works include 1960's Rabbit, Run (6) |
| ANGELOU | Maya ___, US novelist whose works include the autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) |
| ELLISON | Ralph ___, US novelist whose best-known work is 1952's Invisible Man (7) |
| MORTIMER | John --, novelist whose works include 'Paradise Postponed' (8) |
| SILLITOE | Novelist whose works include The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (4,8) |
| CARTLAND | Barbara -, romance novelist whose works include Jig-saw and For What? (8) |
| DANIELLE | American romance novelist whose works include 1992's Jewels, _ Steel (8) |
| EVELYNWAUGH | English novelist whose works included Decline And Fall and Scoop (6,5) |
| AUSTEN | Jane _, English novelist whose works included Pride And Prejudice (1813) |
| EVELYN | British novelist whose works included Brideshead Revisited, _ Waugh (6) |
| RAND | Ayn ---, 20th Century Russian-American novelist whose works included The Fountainhead (4) |
| WOOLF | Virginia _, English novelist whose works included To The Lighthouse (1927) |
| OLIVER | _ Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish novelist whose works included The Vicar Of Wakefield (6) |
| HAWTHORNE | Nathaniel _, American novelist whose works included The Scarlet Letter (1850) |
| LAURIE | _ Lee, English poet and novelist whose works included Cider With Rosie (6) |
