| GRISHAM | John ___, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren (7) |
| WEBSTER | John ___, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| LECARRE | John ___, author of the novels Call for the Dead and The Mission Song (2,5) |
| OSBORNE | John ___, author of stage plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer (7) |
| CLELAND | John ___, author best known for his novel Fanny Hill (7) |
| CASE | John ___, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn |
| RECTOR | John ___, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone (6) |
| 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) |
| KEATS | John ___, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn (5) |
| ARDEN | John ___, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey (5) |
| STEINBECK | John ___, author of The Grapes of Wrath (9) |
| UPDIKE | John __, author of the Rabbit novels (6) |
| MCPHEE | John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" |
| GALSWORTHY | John ___, author of novel series The Forsyte Saga (10) |
| BYRNE | John ___, author of 1978 stage play The Slab Boys (5) |
| GAY | John ___, author of 1728 stage work The Beggar's Opera (3) |
| FOWLES | John ___, author of the 1977 novel Daniel Martin (6) |
| BANVILLE | John ___, author of 2005 Man Booker Prize winner The Sea (8) |
| BUCHAN | John ___, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
