| AYNRAND | Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum |
| GRAND | Great Russian-born American novelist dies, having just begun epic (5) |
| RAND | Author born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum |
| ASCH | Sholem, Polish-born American novelist and playwright in the Yiddish language (4) |
| EVANHUNTER | American author and screenwriter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino, whose pen names include Ed McBain |
| CHABON | Michael ****** , US novelist and screenwriter born in 1963 (6) |
| DYANCANNON | American actress, director and screenwriter born Samille Diane Friesen in 1937 |
| ERNEST | ____ Cline, science fiction author and screenwriter born in 1972 (6) |
| BENNETT | Alan, British dramatist and screenwriter born in Leeds who wrote the play The History Boys (7) |
| ODETS | Clifford _, 20th-century American playwright and screenwriter whose works included 1935's Waiting (5) |
| MILLER | Arthur _, American playwright and screenwriter whose works included Death Of A Salesman (1949) |
| NEILSIMON | American playwright and screenwriter whose works include the 1965 play The Odd Couple (4,5) |
| ABI | ___ Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter who wrote the films The Iron Lady and Suffragette (3) |
| FLECKER | Novelist, playwright and poet whose works include The Golden Journey to Samarkand, The Old Ships and Hassan (7) |
| ARMITAGE | Simon _; British novelist, playwright and current poet Laureate (8) |
| TREVOR | William ___, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer who died in November 2016 |
| WALLACE | Edgar _; English novelist, playwright and journalist (7) |
| DURAS | Marguerite _ _, French novelist, playwright and film-maker (5) |
| MITCHELL | Julian ___, English playwright and screenwriter best known for the play Another Country |
| SIMON | Neil ---, US playwright and screenwriter whose works include the 1965 play The Odd Couple (5) |
