| DRINKWATER | John ___, author of 1918 stage play Abraham Lincoln (10) |
| TARKINGTON | Booth ___, author of 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons (10) |
| OURAMERICANCOUSIN | Play Abraham Lincoln was attending when he was assassinated (3,8,6) |
| GALSWORTHY | John ___, author of novel series The Forsyte Saga (10) |
| SPANISHFLU | Cause of 1918 pandemic |
| BYRNE | John ___, author of 1978 stage play The Slab Boys (5) |
| WEBSTER | John ___, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| DUHAMEL | Georges ___, French author of 1918 novel Civilisation (7) |
| POOLE | Ernest ?, author of 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel His Family |
| LAHR | John ___, author of "Notes on a Cowardly Lion," a biography of his father |
| RECTOR | John ___, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone (6) |
| GAY | John ___, author of 1728 stage work The Beggar's Opera (3) |
| ARDEN | John ___, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey (5) |
| OSBORNE | John ___, author of stage plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer (7) |
| STEINBECK | John ___, author of The Grapes of Wrath (9) |
| MCPHEE | John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" |
| CASE | John ___, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn |
| KEATS | John ___, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn (5) |
| FOWLES | John ___, author of the 1977 novel Daniel Martin (6) |
| DIEFENBAKER | John _____ (Author of today's quote) |
