| EANNIEPROULX | Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning author of "The Shipping News" (who later dropped her first initial) |
| ANNIEPROULX | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| ANNIE | Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Shipping News, E ... Proulx |
| ADIE | Kate - - -, former chief news correspondent for BBC News, who received the Bafta Fellowship in 2018 (4) |
| BETA | Model name connected to (but later dropped from) the Lancia Montecarlo (4) |
| ELISON | Meg ___: award-winning author of "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" |
| QUOYLE | Reporter played by Kevin Spacey in the 2001 movie version of The Shipping News |
| SHERMANALEXIE | *Award-winning author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" |
| SULLIVAN | Surname of award winning writer of the TV programme "Only Fools and Horses" (8) |
| CATE | Blanchett of 'The Shipping News' |
| JUDI | Dench of "The Shipping News" |
| TED | Poet and award-winning author of The Birthday Letters, ...Hughes |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun (8) |
| ROALD | Award-winning author of children's fiction who wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ... |
| EDEL | Leon who won both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award in 1963 |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| LURIE | Alison -; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (5) |
| EDITHWHARTON | *Pulitzer-winning author of "The Age of Innocence" (In this clue's answer, note letters 6-8 and 10) |
| ERDRICH | Louise ___, Pulitzer-winning author of "The Night Watchman" and "The Mighty Red" |
| PROULX | Annie, U.S. author whose works include The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain (6) |