| Author born June 17, 1914 | 25 |
| Author born in Oak Park, Ill. | 29 |
| Author born in Columbus, Ohio | 29 |
| Author born in Columbus, Georgia | 32 |
| Author born in Bombay | 21 |
| Author born in 1908 | 19 |
| Author born Howard Allen O'Brien | 36 |
| Author born Feb. 26, 1802 | 25 |
| Author born August 27, 1871 | 27 |
| Author born 10/23/1942 | 22 |
| Author born 10/15/1920 | 22 |
| Author born 1/1/1919 | 20 |
| Author Bontemps | 15 |
| Author Bombeck | 14 |
| Author Blyton of the "Famous Five" series | 51 |
| Author Blyton et al. | 20 |
| Author Blyton | 13 |
| Author Blume | 12 |
| Author Birkerts | 15 |
| Author Binchy | 13 |
| Author Bierce | 13 |
| Author Beverly | 14 |
| Author Betti | 12 |
| Author better known as Saki | 27 |
| Author Best | 11 |
| Author Bertrand | 15 |
| Author Berton | 13 |
| Author Berne | 12 |
| Author Bernard De ___ | 21 |
| Author Bentley | 14 |
| Author Bennett | 14 |
| Author Ben ___ Williams | 23 |
| Author Bellows and Apostle Paul | 31 |
| Author Bellow et al. | 20 |
| Author Bellow | 13 |
| Author Beigel | 13 |
| Author Behn | 11 |
| Author Beattie or Radcliffe | 27 |
| Author Beattie | 14 |
| Author Bates et al. | 19 |
| Author Bates | 12 |
| Author Barzini | 14 |
| Author Barstow | 14 |
| Author Barker | 13 |
| Author Barbara of "Laughing All the Way" | 50 |
| Author Balzac | 13 |
| Author Baker | 12 |
| Author Bagnold or Blyton | 24 |
| Author Bagnold et al. | 21 |
| Author Bagnold and others | 25 |
| Author Bagnold | 14 |
| Author Bacon or Ephron | 22 |
| Author Émile | 16 |
| Author Émile | 20 |
| Author Ayn and others | 21 |
| Author Ayn | 10 |
| Author Austen | 13 |
| Author Auletta | 14 |
| Author Augusto ___ Bastos | 25 |
| Author Auel | 11 |
| Author at the beach? | 20 |
| Author Asquith of children's books | 38 |
| Author Asimov | 13 |
| Author Asch | 11 |
| Author Arnold, for short | 24 |
| Author Arendt | 13 |
| Author Anya ___ | 15 |
| Author Anya and others | 22 |
| Author Anya | 11 |
| Author anonymously | 18 |
| Author Anita ___ | 16 |
| Author Anita | 12 |
| Author Angelou | 14 |
| Author Andric | 13 |
| Author Andreyev, called "The Edgar Allan Poe of Russian Literature" | 77 |
| Author André and family | 26 |
| Author André | 15 |
| Author Andersen | 15 |
| Author and screenwriter James | 29 |
| Author and Nobel Laureate Gordimer | 34 |
| Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton | 53 |
| Author and game show panelist Fannie | 36 |
| Author and former New York Times public editor Daniel | 53 |
| Author and film critic James | 28 |
| Author and atom enders | 22 |
| Author and animal rights activist Cleveland | 43 |
| Author and actor take on a builder | 34 |
| Author Anatole ___ | 18 |
| Author Anatole | 14 |
| Author analyzed by Sartre | 25 |
| Author Anaïs | 15 |
| Author Amy's family squabble? | 33 |
| Author Amy | 10 |
| Author among whose pen names was Theo LeSieg | 44 |
| Author Ambler | 13 |
| Author Amado | 12 |
| Author Allende | 14 |
| Author Alistair | 15 |
| Author Alighieri | 16 |
| Author Alice ___ Miller | 23 |