| WILLACATHER | American novelist who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One Of Ours (5,6) |
| TONIMORRISON | African-American novelist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (4,8) |
| AWARD | The Pulitzer Prize for one |
| EDNA | Real forename of "Nancy Boyd", who penned A Few Figs from Thistles and 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (4) |
| OURS | "One of ___" (1923 Pulitzer-winning novel by Willa Cather) |
| JOHNMACLEOD | Scottish scientist; joint winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his part in discovering insulin (4,7) |
| VARGASLLOSA | Mario --- ---, Peruvian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 (6,5) |
| CLAUDESIMON | French novelist who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| YEATS | WB, Irish poet who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature (5) |
| HAROLDLLOYD | Actor famously seen hanging from a clock in the 1923 film Safety Last! |
| PEARLSBUCK | This American novelist, who grew up in China, won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature (3 wds.) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest ___ American novelist who is famous for his novel The Old Man and the Sea |
| IRIS | _ Murdoch, novelist who won the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea in 1978 (4) |
| ONDAATJE | Michael _, Sri-lankan born novelist who won the Booker Prize for The English Patient (8) |
| SHERMANALEXIE | Native American novelist who wrote 2007's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: 2 wds. |
| GARLAND | Prize for one who played Dorothy |
| EVANHUNTER | American novelist who also writes crime stories using the pseudonym Ed McBain |
| HIGHSMITH | Patricia - - -, American novelist who wrote Strangers On A Train and created the character Tom Ripley (9) |
| LOUISEERDRICH | Native American novelist who wrote 2012's The Round House: 2 wds. |
| NSCOTTMOMADAY | Native American novelist who wrote 1968's House Made of Dawn: 3 wds. |
