| KESEY | Ken, U.S. author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5) |
| NORTON | Ken, U.S. former heavyweight boxer born in 1943 nicknamed The Fighting Marine (6) |
| THORP | Roderick, U.S. author of thriller Nothing Lasts Forever that inspired the film Die Hard (5) |
| KENKESEY | Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, d. 2001 (3,5) |
| LEWIS | C.S. -; author of the novels chronicling the land of Narnia (5) |
| BYATT | A S -, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden (5) |
| KEN | ___ Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (3) |
| ELENA | Author of one of The New York Times' "best books of the 21st century" ... or its narrator |
| MILOSFORMAN | Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus (5,6) |
| DOURIF | Brad of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| NICHOLSON | Star of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "As Good As It Gets" |
| COLLINS | Suzanne, U.S. author of the dystopian young adult novel series, The Hunger Games (7) |
| MEGCABOT | U.S. author of The Princess Diaries (3,5) |
| THOREAU | Henry, U.S. author of Walden, or Life in the Woods (7) |
| AGEE | James, U.S. author of A Death in the Family (4) |
| SINCLAIR | Upton, U.S. author of 1906 novel The Jungle (8) |
| MASTERS | Edgar Lee, U.S. author of Spoon River Anthology (7) |
| CONNELLY | Michael, U.S. author of detective novels featuring Harry Bosch (8) |
| URIS | Leon ___, U.S. author of historical fiction born in 1924 (4) |
| WADSWORTH | Middle name of U.S.writer of long narrative poems |
