| BUCHAN | John ?, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| HAY | Ian ?, author of 1915 war book The First Hundred Thousand (3) |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (4,6) |
| HANNAY | Protagonist and narrator of John Buchan's 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| RECTOR | John ?, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone (6) |
| BRAINE | John ?, author of 1957 novel Room at the Top (6) |
| FOWLES | John ?, author of the 1977 novel Daniel Martin (6) |
| GODBER | John ?, author of the stage plays Bouncers and Up "n" Under (6) |
| MILTON | John ?, author of the epic poem Paradise Lost |
| BULLIVANT | Sir Walter --, character in John Buchan's novel 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' (9) |
| CASE | John ?, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn H |
| WEBSTER | John ?, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| WYNDHAM | John ?, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| FORD | Ford Madox _, author of the 1915 novel The Good Soldier (4) |
| GALSWORTHY | John ?, author of novel series The Forsyte Saga (10) |
| BARTH | John ?, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy (5) |
| LAHR | John ?, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot (4) |
| GRISHAM | John ?, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren (7) |
| MORTIMER | John ?, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| KEATS | John ?, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn |
