| CLANCY | Tom _; US novelist (6) |
| MAILER | Norman ___, US novelist (6) |
| CAPOTE | Truman ___, US novelist (6) |
| ALCOTT | Louisa May ----___, US novelist (6) |
| UPDIKE | John _, US novelist whose works include 1960's Rabbit, Run (6) |
| COTTON | Tom ___: US senator for Arkansas (6) |
| LEHRER | Tom ___, US humorist whose songs include The Masochism Tango (6) |
| LEHMAN | Tom ___, US golfer; 1996 winner of The Open Championship (6) |
| ELLIS | Bret Easton ___, US novelist; American Psycho (1991) |
| KEROUAC | Jack ___ : US novelist and Beat Generation pioneer (7) |
| DOCTOROW | EL _, US novelist whose works included Billy Bathgate (8) |
| ANGELOU | Maya ___, US novelist whose works include the autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest _, US novelist whose works include 'The Sun Also Rises' (9) |
| ELLISON | Ralph ___, US novelist whose best-known work is 1952's Invisible Man (7) |
| DREISER | Theodore ___, US novelist; Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925) etc. (7) |
| KESEY | Ken ___, US novelist best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| CHABON | Michael ****** , US novelist and screenwriter born in 1963 (6) |
| ERNEST | ___ Hemingway, US novelist (6) |
| AUSTEN | Ten getting behind a US novelist? (6) |
| EASTON | Bret ___ Ellis, modern US novelist (6) |
