| FENIMORE | James _ Cooper, US author who wrote The Last Of The Mohicans (8) |
| ROSSINI | Italian composer who wrote the last of his 39 operas at the age of 37 |
| ALICE | ___ Cooper, US rock star (5) |
| MELVILLE | Herman _, US author who wrote the 1851 novel Moby-Dick (8) |
| MORRISON | Toni, US author who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature (8) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; MP and author who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword"; a friend of Disraeli and Dickens who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii (6) |
| BOWEN | Novelist who wrote The Last September, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout (5) |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| TWAIN | US author who wrote: "The report of my death was an exaggeration" |
| EUGENIDES | Jeffrey _, US author who wrote the 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides (9) |
| MICHAELCRICHTON | US author who wrote the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park (7,8) |
| LEVIN | Ira ***** , US author who wrote the 1972 novel 'The Stepford Wives' (5) |
| TAN | Amy -, US author who wrote the 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club (3) |
| EGAN | Jennifer, US author who wrote the 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad (4) |
| ACKROYD | Peter who wrote "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde" |
| NATHANIEL | _ Hawthorne, US author who wrote The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| CARD | US author who wrote the 1985 sci-fi novel Ender's Game, Orson Scott _ (4) |
| ELLIS | Bret Easton _, US author who wrote the 1991 novel American Psycho (5) |
| BORROUGHS | US author who wrote the 2002 memoir Running With Scissors, Augusten _ (9) |
| ERNEST | ___ Hemingway, US author who wrote about his time on safari in Green Hills Of Africa (6) |
