| VIDAL | Gore ___, US author of novels Julian and Creation (5) |
| WHITE | E. B. ___, US author of children's novels including Stuart Little (1945) and Charlotte's Web (1952) (5) |
| TWAIN | Mark ___, US author of 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper (5) |
| OATES | Joyce Carol ___, US author of them (1969 and The Falls (2004) (5) |
| BLOCH | Robert _, US author of novels including 1959's Psycho (5) |
| TUROW | Scott ___, US author of legal novels (5) |
| AMIEL | Jon ___, director of the films Sommersby and Creation (5) |
| KESEY | Ken ___, US author of novels including One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) (5) |
| WOLFF | Tobias ___, US author of 1989 memoir This Boy's Life (5) |
| ALGER | Horatio ___, US author of rags-to-riches stories (5) |
| VADAL | Author Gore ___ |
| FANNY | In Enid Blyton's Famous Five stories, who is aunt to Dick, Julian and Anne? (5) |
| LESLEYGOREVIDAL | Singer who recorded "You Don't Own Me" and author of novel "Julian" |
| ITSMY | Lesley Gore's "___ Party" |
| EARTH | Gore's "___ in the Balance" |
| UPDIKE | John ___, US author of the novels Toward the End of Time and The Centaur (6) |
| HIAASEN | Carl ___, US author of the novels Lucky You and Sick Puppy (7) |
| VONNEGUT | Kurt ___, US author of novels including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Timequake (1997) (8) |
| ILES | Greg ___, US author of the novels Dead Sleep and Sleep No More (4) |
| FINEARTS | Study and creation of visual work of art (4,4) |
