| GUYDEMAUPASSANT | French novelist and short-story writer (3,2,10) |
| FLANNERYOCONNOR | US novelist and short-story writer whose works include Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away |
| OBRIEN | Novelist and short story writer whose many works include Christmas Roses, The Country Girls, Wild Decembers and the story for children A Christmas Treat (6) |
| IVANTURGENEV | Russian novelist and short story writer, author of Fathers and Sons |
| DEEPING | Warwick ___, prolific English novelist and short story writer whose best-known novel was Sorrell and Son |
| ALBERTOMORAVIA | Italian novelist and short-story writer whose works include The Time of Indifference and The Woman of Rome |
| CARTER | Pen name of a novelist and short story writer whose works include The Magic Toyshop, Nights at the Circus and Shadow Dance (6) |
| SILLITOE | Alan --, 1928-2010, novelist and short-story writer (8) |
| DUMAURIER | Dame Daphne --, 1907-89, novelist and short-story writer (2,7) |
| KAFKA | Bohemian novelist and short story writer Franz |
| BALLARD | James Graham - English novelist and short story writer. (7) |
| HASEK | Czech novelist and short-story writer |
| TREVOR | William, Irish novelist and short-story writer (6) |
| ERNEST | Novelist and short story writer Hemingway |
| ANITA | ___ Desai, Indian novelist and short-story writer (5) |
| KELMAN | James, Scottish novelist and short story writer born in 1946 (6) |
| SINCLAIR | Clive *****: novelist and short story writer born in 1948 (8) |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| PLATH | Sylvia, American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who married Ted Hughes (5) |
| MORAVIA | Alberto ___, pen name of Italian novelist and short-story writer Alberto Pincherle |