| GOETHE | German poet, novelist and dramatist (6) |
| HESSE | German poet/novelist Hermann |
| HUGO | Victor ___, French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| VICTORHUGO | French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| COCTEAU | French poet. novelist and dramatist, Jean (1889-1963) |
| GRAVES | Poet, novelist and critic providing wild parties after midnight (6) |
| LARKIN | Poet, novelist, jazz critic, librarian and editor of The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse whose collection The Less Deceived includes Church Going (6) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea |
| BARRIE | J. M. --, novelist and dramatist (6) |
| GREENE | Graham - - -, English novelist and dramatist who wrote Brighton Rock (6) |
| SARTON | Poet-novelist May |
| ELINOR | Poet-novelist Wylie |
| VANWYK | Chris _ _, activist, poet, novelist, wrote Shirley, Goodness & Mercy (3,3) |
| ATWOOD | Poet/novelist/critic/inventor from Ottawa |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; title of the novelist and dramatist whose 1839 play Richelieu contains the line "the pen is mightier than the sword" (6) |
| LESAGE | French novelist and dramatist who wrote the picaresque novel Gil Blas (6) |
| WILDER | Thornton ---, American novelist and dramatist who won three Pulitzer Prizes (6) |
| DAVIES | Canadian novelist and dramatist |
| PLATH | Sylvia, American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who married Ted Hughes (5) |
| LEONARDCOHEN | Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, novelist and painter whose first published book of poetry was Let Us Compare Mythologies |