| Author unknown byline, briefly | 30 |
| Author unknown, for short | 25 |
| Author unknown: Abbr. | 21 |
| Author Upton ___ Sinclair | 25 |
| Author Uris | 11 |
| Author Ursula et al. | 20 |
| Author Utley | 12 |
| Author Verne | 12 |
| Author Victor | 13 |
| Author Victor ___ | 17 |
| Author Victoria | 15 |
| Author Vidal | 12 |
| Author Villiers | 15 |
| Author Virginia | 15 |
| Author Vittorini | 16 |
| Author Vonnegut | 15 |
| Author Vonnegut and others | 26 |
| Author W. ___ Maugham | 21 |
| Author w/o a name? | 18 |
| Author Walker | 13 |
| Author Wallace | 14 |
| Author Wallace, for short | 25 |
| Author Walpole | 14 |
| Author Walter | 13 |
| Author Waugh | 12 |
| Author Weldon | 13 |
| Author Welty | 12 |
| Author Werfel | 13 |
| Author West et al. | 18 |
| Author Wharton | 14 |
| Author Whitely | 14 |
| Author Whitten | 14 |
| Author who "a lot of us ... pick[ed] up ... when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood," per Obama | 113 |
| Author who appeared in "Jaws" | 39 |
| Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" | 84 |
| Author who coined "nerd" | 34 |
| Author who coined the term "robotics" | 47 |
| Author who covered the Spanish-American War for New York newspapers | 67 |
| Author who created Emma Woodhouse | 33 |
| Author who created John Galt | 28 |
| Author who created Oz | 21 |
| Author who created Poker Flat | 29 |
| Author who created Ponyboy | 26 |
| Author who created Sam Spade | 28 |
| Author who declined the Nobel Prize | 35 |
| Author who died on the same day as John F. Kennedy | 50 |
| Author who doesn't maintain an Academy Awards fansite | 57 |
| Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" | 107 |
| Author who gave us "Goosebumps" | 41 |
| Author who gave us "sour grapes" | 42 |
| Author who gets no credit | 25 |
| Author who has used the pseudonym Newt Scamander | 48 |
| Author who influenced Conan Doyle | 33 |
| Author who influenced Verne | 27 |
| Author who inspired a Baltimore team's nickname | 51 |
| Author who inspired Verne | 25 |
| Author who is on the money? | 27 |
| Author who produces mediocre material | 37 |
| Author who received an O.B.E. in 2001 | 37 |
| Author who said "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" | 79 |
| Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" | 109 |
| Author who said "My job is to give kids the creeps" | 61 |
| Author who said "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die" | 77 |
| Author who served as U.S. minister to Spain | 43 |
| Author who used the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier,” an anagram of his full name | 86 |
| Author who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon | 41 |
| Author who was also an entomologist | 35 |
| Author who was Cézanne's close friend | 44 |
| Author who was once Claudia Johnson's press secretary | 57 |
| Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937 | 60 |
| Author who went by the pseudonym George Orwell | 46 |
| Author who went through Hell | 28 |
| Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer | 36 |
| Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958 | 44 |
| Author who won the 1986 Peace Prize | 35 |
| Author who wore "a warm knit"? | 40 |
| Author who worked on Friday? | 28 |
| Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" | 80 |
| Author who wrote "Demian" under the pen name Emil Sinclair | 68 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" | 68 |
| Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 95 |
| Author who wrote about frontier life | 36 |
| Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire | 66 |
| Author who wrote on Friday | 26 |
| Author who wrote that "hell is other people" | 54 |
| Author who'll never make a name for himself | 47 |
| Author who's rarin' to write? | 37 |
| Author who, with his friends, famously formed the Merry Pranksters | 66 |
| Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work | 84 |
| Author whose landmark work began as "Catch-18" | 56 |
| Author whose main character is Jack Reacher | 43 |
| Author whose masterpiece only started selling well after he died | 64 |
| Author whose novels span 6,000 years | 36 |
| Author whose only published novel won a Pulitzer | 48 |
| Author Wiesel | 13 |
| Author Wilde | 12 |
| Author Wilfrid and family | 25 |
| Author Willa and family | 23 |
| Author Wilson | 13 |