| SUSANSONTAG | New York-born critic and essayist who wrote the novel The Volcano Lover (5,6) |
| ARNOLD | Matthew ---, 19th-Century English poet and essayist who wrote the lyric poem Dover Beach (6) |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| LOUISEGLUCK | US poet and essayist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,5) |
| CHARLESLAMB | *English essayist who wrote "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once" [ram] |
| EVELYNWAUGH | Who wrote the novel Scoop based on his experiences of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia? (6,5) |
| GEORGEORWELL | 20th Century novelist and essayist who wrote Animal Farm and 1984 (6,6) |
| ORWELL | George ---, 20th-Century novelist and essayist who wrote Animal Farm and 1984 (6) |
| SIENKIEWICZ | Henryk _, Polish journalist who wrote the novel Quo Vadis (11) |
| CHARLESBAUDELAIRE | French 19th Century poet and essayist who wrote Les Fleurs du Mal |
| GASTOMLEROUX | French journalist and author who wrote the novel The Phantom Of The Opera (6,6) |
| ANNEBRONTE | English writer born in 1820 who wrote the novel The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall (4,6) |
| WALKER | Alice ___, US author and social activist who wrote the novel The Color Purple |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
| SEBOLD | Alice ___, U.S. novelist who wrote the novel The Lovely Bones published in 2002 (6) |
| PLATH | Sylvia, poet who wrote the novel The Bell Jar (5) |
| TENNESSEEWILLIAMS | US playwright who wrote the novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (9,8) |
| RALPHWALDOEMERSON | American poet and essayist who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century |
| SONTAG | Susan who wrote "The Volcano Lover" |
| TATE | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
