| 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 |
| Author Eric | 11 |
| Author Erica | 12 |
| Author Erich ___ Remarque | 25 |
| Author Ernest Thompson ___ | 26 |
| Author Ernie or Howard | 22 |
| Author Esquivel | 15 |
| Author Eudora | 13 |
| Author Evelyn | 13 |
| Author Evelyn's brother | 27 |
| Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
| Author exiled from Florence in 1301 | 35 |
| Author expelled from West Point | 31 |
| Author Ezra located his basset? | 31 |
| Author Falacci | 14 |
| Author Fallaci | 14 |
| Author Fannie | 13 |
| Author Farley | 13 |
| Author Fast | 11 |
| Author featured herein | 22 |
| Author Feodor | 13 |
| Author Ferber | 13 |
| Author Ferber and actress Best | 30 |
| Author Ferber and others | 24 |
| Author Ferber et al. | 20 |
| Author Fielding | 15 |
| Author Fitzgerald | 17 |
| Author Fitzgerald married to F. Scott | 37 |
| Author Flagg | 12 |
| Author Flaubert | 15 |
| Author Fleming | 14 |
| Author Fleming and others | 25 |
| Author Fleming or McEwan | 24 |
| Author Fleming, et al. | 22 |
| Author Foley | 12 |
| Author Follett | 14 |
| Author Follett or Kesey | 23 |
| Author Ford ___ Ford | 20 |
| Author Fowler | 13 |
| Author France | 13 |
| Author Frances Parkinson | 24 |
| Author from India | 17 |
| Author from Salem, Mass. | 24 |