| Author born in Columbus, Ohio | 29 |
| Author born in Oak Park, Ill. | 29 |
| Author born June 17, 1914 | 25 |
| Author born June 25, 1903 | 25 |
| Author born on June 14, 1811 | 28 |
| Author Bret | 11 |
| Author Bret ___ | 15 |
| Author Bret's deceptive move? | 33 |
| Author Brookner | 15 |
| Author Brown | 12 |
| Author Buchanan | 15 |
| Author Buck | 11 |
| Author Buntline | 15 |
| Author buried on the Phillips Academy campus in 1896 | 52 |
| Author Buscaglia | 16 |
| Author C. P. | 12 |
| Author C. P. ___ | 16 |
| Author C.S. | 11 |
| Author Cabell's middle name | 31 |
| Author Calderon | 15 |
| Author Caldwell | 15 |
| Author Caleb | 12 |
| Author Calvino | 14 |
| Author Canetti | 14 |
| Author Canin | 12 |
| Author Carle | 12 |
| Author Carmer | 13 |
| Author Carnegie | 15 |
| Author Carpenter | 16 |
| Author Carr | 11 |
| Author Carroll | 14 |
| Author Caspary | 14 |
| Author Cather | 13 |
| Author Cather and namesakes | 27 |
| Author Cather, while existing? | 30 |
| Author Cavino | 13 |
| Author celebrated on Bloomsday | 30 |
| Author Cervantes | 16 |
| Author chained to ape | 21 |
| Author Charles Percy | 20 |
| Author Chase | 12 |
| Author Chekhov | 14 |
| Author Chomsky | 14 |
| Author Chopra | 13 |
| Author Christie | 15 |
| Author Clancy | 13 |
| Author Clarissa Pinkola ___ | 27 |
| Author Claude | 13 |
| Author Claude ___ | 17 |
| Author Clifford | 15 |
| Author Clive . . . or Cujo | 26 |
| Author Cobb | 11 |
| Author Comfort | 14 |
| Author connected to this puzzle's theme | 43 |
| Author Connell | 14 |
| Author Conrad | 13 |
| Author Cornelia | 15 |
| Author Coulter | 14 |
| Author credit | 13 |
| Author credited on many old poems | 33 |
| Author credited on many poems | 29 |
| Author Currie | 13 |
| Author Cussler | 14 |
| Author Dahl | 11 |
| Author Davidson ("Loose Change") | 42 |
| Author de Balzac | 16 |
| Author de Beauvoir | 18 |
| Author de la Ramée | 21 |
| Author de la Roche | 18 |
| Author de la ___ | 16 |
| Author de Maupassant | 20 |
| Author de Queiroz | 17 |
| Author Decter ("The New Chastity") | 44 |
| Author Deighton | 15 |
| Author Delmar | 13 |
| Author DeMille | 14 |
| Author depicted next to a steamboat on a 2011 stamp | 51 |
| Author Dianthe | 14 |
| Author Dick | 11 |
| Author Didion | 13 |
| Author Dinesen | 14 |
| Author Dos ___ | 14 |
| Author Dostoyevsky | 18 |
| Author Douglas | 14 |
| Author Doyle's middle name | 30 |
| Author Dr. Yutang | 17 |
| Author Drury | 12 |
| Author du Maurier | 17 |
| Author E.B. | 11 |
| Author Earl ___ Biggers | 23 |
| Author Eda ___ | 14 |
| Author Edgar Allan __ | 21 |
| Author Ehrenburg | 16 |
| Author Eliau | 12 |
| Author Eliav | 12 |
| Author Elkin | 12 |
| Author Ellison | 14 |
| Author Elmore | 13 |
| Author Ephron | 13 |
| Author Ephron and others | 24 |