| 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 |
| Author Winslow | 14 |
| Author Wister | 13 |
| Author Wister of "The Virginian" | 42 |
| Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" | 71 |
| Author with a fan site called "Into the Wardrobe" | 59 |
| Author with a Moscow park named after him | 41 |
| Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia | 42 |
| Author with the pen name Saki | 29 |
| Author without credit | 21 |
| Author Wolfert or Levin | 23 |
| Author Wortman | 14 |
| Author Wouk | 11 |
| Author Wren's family name | 29 |
| Author Wylie | 12 |
| Author Wylie and soprano Ross | 29 |
| Author Yutang | 13 |
| Author Zane | 11 |
| Author Zane __ | 14 |
| Author Zane ___ | 15 |
| Author Zola | 11 |
| Author Zona | 11 |
| Author Zora -- Hurston | 22 |
| Author Zora Neale ___ of the Harlem Renaissance | 47 |
| Author Zora __ Hurston | 22 |
| Author Zora ___ Hurston | 23 |
| Author Zora _____ Hurston | 25 |
| Author Zweig | 12 |
| Author __ Christian Andersen | 28 |
| Author __ de Saint-Exupéry | 29 |
| Author __ Easton Ellis | 22 |
| Author __ Hubbard | 17 |
| Author __ Lee Hope | 18 |
| Author __ Louis Stevenson | 25 |
| Author __ Mae Brown | 19 |
| Author __ Maria Remarque | 24 |
| Author __ May Alcott | 20 |
| Author __ Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Author __ Rogers St. Johns | 26 |
| Author __ Stanley Gardner | 25 |
| Author ___ Bashevis Singer | 26 |
| Author ___ Christian Andersen | 29 |
| Author ___ Congwen | 18 |