| PATRICK | Irish poet who wrote the autobiographical work The Green Fool (7,8) |
| KAVANAGH | Irish poet who wrote the autobiographical work The Green Fool (7,8) |
| ASTOR | Mary who wrote the autobiographical "A Life on Film" |
| DURRELL | Gerald -; naturalist who wrote the autobiographical book My Family and Other Animals (7) |
| TREVOR | Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical "Born a Crime" |
| LENO | Jay who wrote the autobiographical "Leading with my Chin" |
| THOMASMOORE | Irish poet who wrote the lyrics for The Last Rose of Summer and The Minstrel Boy |
| YEATS | Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who wrote The Tower and The Winding Stair (5) |
| FEY | Tina who wrote the autobiographical "Bossypants" |
| BUTLER | Samuel -; author whose works include the novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical work The Way of All Flesh (6) |
| HEANEY | Seamus -, Irish poet who wrote 'Death of a Naturalist' (6) |
| LEE | Author of the travel book A Rose for Winter, the poetry collection The Sun My Monument and the autobiographical Cider with Rosie (3) |
| AGEE | James, author of the autobiographical novel A Death in the Family (4) |
| INGALLS | Family surname in the autobiographical novel "Little House in the Big Woods" |
| AMIS | Martin, English writer who published the autobiographical novel Inside Story in 2020 (4) |
| SEAMUS | And 31 Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 (6,6) |
| BRENDANBEHAN | Irish poet who described himself as a "daylight atheist" |
| STARK | Freya ___, traveller who authored 1951 autobiographical work Beyond Euphrates (5) |
| ANGELOU | American writer Maya ____'s first autobiographical work was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| LAURIELEE | Writer of the 1959 autobiographical work Cider with Rosie (6,3) |