| POOLE | Ernest -, author of 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel His Family (5) |
| TARTT | Author of The Little Friend, The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch (5) |
| MAMBO | ?The ___ Kings Play Songs of Love", Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos (5) |
| ROOTS | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex Haley (5) |
| SOBIG | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Edna Ferber |
| MARNE | Battle site of 1918 |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest, author of the novel The Old Man and the Sea (9) |
| TIDYMAN | Ernest, author of the novel Shaft (7) |
| DUHAMEL | Georges ___, French author of 1918 novel Civilisation (7) |
| TARKINGTON | Booth ___, author of 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons (10) |
| DRINKWATER | John ___, author of 1918 stage play Abraham Lincoln (10) |
| HARPER | Author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird (6,3) |
| ALICEADAMS | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington published in 1921 (5,5) |
| TONI | Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved, _ Morrison (4) |
| REPOSE | "Angle of ___" (Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Wallace Stegner) |
| SEA | The Old Man And The ___, short Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway (3) |
| EDNAFERBER | Writer of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel So Big (4,6) |
| DEANKOONTZ | Author of over 100 suspense/horror novels, his breakthrough being Whispers in 1980 |
| PULLMAN | Philip -; author whose trilogy of novels His Dark Materials concludes with The Amber Spyglass (7) |
| BELOVED | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1987 |