| JAMESAGEE | American writer whose autobiographical novel A Death in the Family won him a posthumous Pulitzer Prize (5,4) |
| FRAME | Author whose autobiographical works were adapted into the 1990 film An Angel at My Table (5) |
| ETHELBARRYMORE | Which member of an acting family won an Academy Award for her role in None but the Lonely Heart (194 |
| AGEE | James, author of the autobiographical novel A Death in the Family (4) |
| AMYLOWELL | US poet of the imagist school whose What's O'Clock won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1926 (3,6) |
| LETO | Jared, U.S. actor whose role in the film Dallas Buyers Club won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (4) |
| BERNARDSHAW | Irish playwright George ___ whose volume of work including Man and Superman won him a Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| NERNST | German chemist Walther ____’s heat theorem is a partial statement of the third law of thermodynamics and won him a 1920 Nobel prize |
| NORMANMAILER | American writer whose orks include the 1948 novel The Naked And The Dead (6,6) |
| COOPER | James Fenimore ---, American writer whose most famous work is the novel The Last Of The Mohicans (6) |
| IDA | ___ B. Wells, journalist who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 2020 |
| ELTONJOHN | Singer-songwriter whose song Can You Feel the Love Tonight from the movie The Lion King won him an Oscar in 1994: 2 wds. |
| ALAN | Music composer and songwriter ___ Menken whose song Under the Sea from the movie The Little Mermaid won him an Oscar in 1989 |
| SCOTT | Ragtime composer who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer for his contribution to American music, ... J |
| ELLINGTON | Bandleader and pianist, 1899-1974, awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999 (9) |
| SALINGER | J. D. ---, American writer whose most famous work was The Catcher In The Rye (8) |
| FITZGERALD | F. Scott ---, American writer whose works include the novel The Great Gatsby (10) |
| PLATH | Poet who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize |
| SAMSMITH | Singer-songwriter whose song Writing's on the Wall from the movie Spectre won him an Oscar in 2015: 2 wds. |
| ANDYGARCIA | Actor whose role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (4,6) |
