| STELLAGIBBONS | English writer whose first novel was Cold Comfort Farm (1932) |
| GIBBONS | Stella _, 20th-century English writer whose first novel was Cold Comfort Farm (1932) |
| MAUGHAM | English writer whose first novel was Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897 (7) |
| HEYER | Georgette ___, English author whose first novel was The Black Moth (5) |
| KATEATKINSON | English author whose first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year |
| CHINUAACHEBE | Nigerian writer whose first novel was Things Fall Apart (1958) |
| OBRIEN | Edna - - -, Irish writer whose first novel was The Country Girls (6) |
| EDNA | _ O'brien, Irish writer whose first novel was The Country Girls (1960) |
| ATWOOD | Writer whose first novel was "The Edible Woman" (1969) |
| VONNEGUT | Kurt, U.S. writer whose first novel Player Piano was published in 1952 (8) |
| AMYTAN | Writer whose first novel was adapted as a film by Wayne Wang |
| DONDELILLO | US writer whose first novel was Americana in 1971 (3,7) |
| BLYTON | English author whose first book, Child Whispers, was published in 1922 (6) |
| NOEL | _ Streatfeild, English author whose first children's book was Ballet Shoes (1936) |
| ERNESTHEMINGWAY | U.S. writer whose first novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926 (6,9) |
| CARTLAND | Dame Barbara ___, prolific author whose first novel, Jigsaw, was published in 1923 |
| BANKS | Scottish author whose first novel was The Wasp Factory (4,5) |
| IAIN | And 33 Scottish author whose first novel was The Wasp Factory (4,5) |
| BERYLBAINBRIDGE | Author whose first novel was Harriet Said..... in 1972 (5,10) |
| EMFORSTER | Author whose first novel was Where angels fear to tread (1,1,7) |
