| Author Singer | 13 |
| Author Sir Walter | 17 |
| Author sisters' surname | 27 |
| Author Smith of "Topper" fame | 39 |
| Author Sontag | 13 |
| Author Spillane | 15 |
| Author St. Johns | 16 |
| Author St. Johns et al. | 23 |
| Author Stanislaw | 16 |
| Author Stanislaw ___ | 20 |
| Author Steinhauer with the 2009 best seller "The Tourist" | 67 |
| Author Stephen Vincent ___ | 26 |
| Author Stephenson | 17 |
| Author Stevenson's initials | 31 |
| Author Stoker | 13 |
| Author Stoker ("Dracula") | 35 |
| Author Stone, to friends | 24 |
| Author Stout | 12 |
| Author Struther | 15 |
| Author Studs | 12 |
| Author Suyin | 12 |
| Author T. S. ___ | 16 |
| Author T.S. | 11 |
| Author T.S. __ | 14 |
| Author T.S. ___ | 15 |
| Author Talese | 13 |
| Author Tan | 10 |
| Author Tan and others | 21 |
| Author Tarbell | 14 |
| Author Tarbell et al. | 21 |
| Author Tarbell: 1857-1944 | 25 |
| Author Tarkington | 17 |
| Author taught by HG Wells | 25 |
| Author taught by Thoreau | 24 |
| Author Terkel | 13 |
| Author Thirkell | 15 |
| Author Thomas | 13 |
| Author Thomas and family | 24 |
| Author Thomas blows a tune? | 27 |
| Author to be afraid of? | 23 |
| Author Tobias | 13 |
| Author Toffler | 14 |
| Author Tolstoy | 14 |
| Author Tom or Thomas | 20 |
| Author Truman | 13 |
| Author Turgenev | 15 |
| Author Turin | 12 |
| Author Turin et al. | 19 |
| Author Turnbull | 15 |
| Author Turow | 12 |
| Author Twain | 12 |
| Author Tyler | 12 |
| Author Tyler or Rice | 20 |
| Author Umberto | 14 |
| Author Umberto et al. | 21 |
| Author Umberto ___ | 18 |
| Author unknown | 14 |
| Author unknown (Abbr.) | 22 |
| 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 |