| ANDREGIDE | French author of novels including The Immoralist (1902) (5,4) |
| GIDE | French recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature; The Immoralist (1902) |
| ANDRE | And 4 Down French recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature; The Immoralist (1902) |
| EUGENESUE | French author of novels including Mysteries of Paris (1843) and The Wandering Jew (1844) (6,3) |
| EMILEZOLA | French author of novels Germinal and Therese Raquin (5,4) |
| LPHARTLEY | English author of novels including The Shrimp And The Anemone (1944) and The Go-Between (1953) (1,1,7) |
| MARIOPUZO | US author of novels including The Godfather and The Sicilian (5,4) |
| BOULLE | Pierre, French author of novels including The Bridge Over The River Kwai (6) |
| MARKTWAIN | US author of novels including The Prince And The Pauper (1881) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) (4,5) |
| GALBRAITH | Robert -; pen name under which J. K. Rowling wrote the Cormoran Strike series of novels including The Cuckoo's Calling (9) |
| WHARTON | Author of novels including The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence and the nonfiction The Decoration of Houses (7) |
| STENDHAL | Pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, French author of novels Armance and The Charterhouse of Parma (8) |
| FOLLETT | Ken -; author of the Kingsbridge series of novels including The Pillars of the Earth,World Without End and The Evening and the Morning (7) |
| BOURGET | Paul ___, French author of novels The Disciple and Cosmopolis (7) |
| WHITE | Author of novels including The Tree of Man, The Eye of the Storm and A Fringe of Leaves (5) |
| ZOLA | Emile ___, French author of novels Nana and Therese Raquin (4) |
| FEUILLET | Octave ?, 19th-century French author of novels Dalila and La Petite Comtesse |
| MCEWAN | English author of novels including The Comfort of Strangers and On Chesil Beach, and of several screenplays including The Ploughman's Lunch (6) |
| JAMES | Henry -; author of novels including The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| TWAIN | Mark ___; pen name of the author of novels including The Prince and the Pauper and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (5) |
