| RUSHDIE | Writer whose novel The Satanic Verses offended many Muslims (6,7) |
| SALMAN | Writer whose novel The Satanic Verses offended many Muslims (6,7) |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African writer whose novel 'The Promise' won the 2021 Booker Prize (5,6) |
| ANNIE | - Proulx, writer whose novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (5) |
| SALMONRUSHDIE | Controversial author of The Satanic Verses (6, 7) |
| SALMANRUSHDIE | "The Satanic Verses" author (born in 1947) |
| RICHARDWRIGHT | "Black Boy" author whose novel "The Man Who Lived Underground" will be published on April 20, 60 years after his death |
| RICHARDPOWERS | American novelist whose novel The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| WHATARUSHDIE | "'The Satanic Verses' was sooo good!'"? |
| FATWA | Decree issued against Salman Rushdie for printing The Satanic Verses (5) |
| WHARTON | Edith a"; author whose novel The Age of Innocence was adapted into a film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis 7:A::The Phantom of the -; Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a novel by Gaston |
| INGOODFAITH | Salman Rushdie's work in which he discusses his book The Satanic verses and his life after its publication: 3 wds. |
| ANNAMAZZOLA | Author whose novel The Unseeing won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| JACOBSEN | Howard - - -,author whose novel The Finkler Question won the Man Booker Prize in 2010 (8) |
| BOWEN | Author whose novel The Heat of the Day was adapted by Harold Pinter into a television film starring Patricia Hodge and Michael Gambon (5) |
| KERIHULME | New Zealand author whose novel The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize (4,5) |
| ISHIGURO | Author whose novel The Remains of the Day was adapted into a film by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (8) |
| DESAI | Kiran, Indian author whose novel The Inheritance Of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize (5) |
| COOPER | Author whose novel The Last of the Mohicans was adapted into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis (6) |
| EUDORAWELTY | American author whose novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (6,5) |
