| Author of "Toad of Toad Hall" | 39 |
| Author of "Tobacco Road" | 34 |
| Author of "Trelawney of the Wells" | 44 |
| Author of "Trent's Last Case" | 43 |
| Author of "Tristram Shandy" | 37 |
| Author of "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" | 48 |
| Author of "Two Years Before the Mast" | 47 |
| Author of "Two Years Behind the Mast" | 47 |
| Author of "Unsafe at Any Speed" | 41 |
| Author of "Unto the Sons" | 35 |
| Author of "Vérité" | 34 |
| Author of "Waiting for Lefty" | 39 |
| Author of "Wall Street Jungle" | 40 |
| Author of "War and Peace" | 35 |
| Author of "Westward Ha!" | 34 |
| Author of "While Reagan Slept" | 40 |
| Author of "White Noise" | 33 |
| Author of "Why I Live at the P.O." | 44 |
| Author of "Why Not the Best?" | 39 |
| Author of "Winning Bridge Made Easy" | 46 |
| Author of "Winter's Tales," 1942 | 46 |
| Author of "Wonderland" | 32 |
| Author of "Work in Progress" | 38 |
| Author of "World of Our Fathers" | 42 |
| Author of "Yankee From Olympus" | 41 |
| Author of "Your Erroneous Zones" | 42 |
| Author of 13 books on metaphysics | 33 |
| Author of 2001's "Fury" | 37 |
| Author of a 1719 literary sensation | 35 |
| Author of a 50-million copy best seller | 39 |
| Author of a 65+-million-selling novel | 37 |
| Author of a history making 1837 report | 38 |
| Author of a once-popular book of quotations | 43 |
| Author of Acts, by most accounts | 32 |
| Author of Gothic short stories, in short | 40 |
| Author of inspirational stories for boys | 40 |
| Author of kids' Busytown books | 34 |
| Author of many a talking animal story | 37 |
| Author of more than 600 compositions | 36 |
| Author of Portnoy's Complaint | 33 |
| Author of several New Testament epistles | 40 |
| Author of some stories appropriate for Halloween | 48 |
| Author of the #1 best seller "Couples" | 48 |
| Author of the "Annus Mirabilis" papers | 48 |
| Author of the "Asian Saga" series | 43 |
| Author of the "Elements," ca. 300 B.C. | 48 |
| Author of the "Goosebumps" book series | 48 |
| Author of the "Goosebumps" series | 43 |
| Author of the "Minimax Cookbook" | 42 |
| Author of the 1959 novel "Doctor Sax" | 47 |
| Author of the 1965 biography "Kennedy" | 48 |
| Author of the 2010 book "Talk Show" | 45 |
| Author of the 87th Precinct series | 34 |
| Author of the autobiography "Open" | 44 |
| Author of the Barsetshire novels | 32 |
| Author of the best-selling book series in history | 49 |
| Author of the Books of Chronicles, by tradition | 47 |
| Author of the Dave Robicheaux mysteries | 39 |
| Author of the European Recovery Plan | 36 |
| Author of The Handmaid's Tale | 33 |
| Author of the horror novel "Red Rain" | 47 |
| Author of the Leatherstocking Tales | 35 |
| Author of the memoir "Promises to Keep" | 49 |
| Author of the novel "Doctor Faustus" | 46 |
| Author of the poem "Teddy Bear" | 41 |
| Author of the Three Laws of Robotics | 36 |
| Author of the travelogue "In Sweden" | 46 |
| Author of the withholding-tax plan | 34 |
| Author of this puzzle's quote | 33 |
| Author Pierre ___: 1850–1923 | 35 |
| Author profiled in "Shadowlands" | 42 |
| Author Raphael Gibbs, to his friends | 36 |
| Author read by Bando and Stevens | 32 |
| Author referenced in "The Following" | 46 |
| Author Rostov: "Eroica" | 33 |
| Author Rostov: "Eroica," 1977 | 39 |
| Author said to have influenced Hitchcock | 40 |
| Author Shaw of The Young Lions | 34 |
| Author Shute of "On the Beach" | 40 |
| Author Sinclair or baseball's B.J. | 38 |
| Author Smith of "Topper" fame | 39 |
| Author Stoker ("Dracula") | 35 |
| Author who appeared in "Jaws" | 39 |
| Author who coined "nerd" | 34 |
| Author who coined the term "robotics" | 47 |
| Author who created Emma Woodhouse | 33 |
| Author who declined the Nobel Prize | 35 |
| Author who gave us "Goosebumps" | 41 |
| Author who gave us "sour grapes" | 42 |
| Author who has used the pseudonym Newt Scamander | 48 |
| Author who influenced Conan Doyle | 33 |
| Author who produces mediocre material | 37 |
| Author who received an O.B.E. in 2001 | 37 |
| Author who served as U.S. minister to Spain | 43 |
| 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 went by the pseudonym George Orwell | 46 |
| Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer | 36 |
| Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958 | 44 |