| WAIN | John --, author of the novel 'Young Shoulders' (4) |
| JOHNWAIN | Author of 1982 Whitbread Prize-winning novel Young Shoulders (4,4) |
| CASE | John -, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn Hougan (4) |
| LAHR | John -, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot (4) |
| WYNDHAM | John, author of the novel The Day of the Triffids (7) |
| REED | John .... , author of Ten Days That Shook The World (4) |
| WEBSTER | John, author of the play The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| IRVING | John, author of the novel The Hotel New Hampshire (6) |
| BRAINE | John --, author of the novel 'Room at the Top' (6) |
| LYDGATE | John, author of the poem The Fall of Princes (7) |
| CREASEY | John, author of the 1937 novel Meet the Baron (7) |
| BARTH | John, author of the novel The Sot- Weed Factor (5) |
| GRISHAM | John, author of the 2000 novel The Brethren (7) |
| OHARA | John, author of the 1934 novel Appointment in Samarra (1'4) |
| BUCHAN | John, author of the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| LECARRE | John, author of the novels Call for the Dead and The Mission Song (2,5) |
| RECTOR | John -, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone (6) |
| DOSPASSOS | John, author of the 1925 novel Manhattan Transfer (3,6) |
| GALSWORTHY | John -; author of the Forsyte Saga series of novels (10) |
| BUNYAN | John -; author of the 1678 allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (6) |
