| WILLACATHER | US author of novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia (5,6) |
| WILLA | --- Cather, US author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia |
| LEOTOLSTOY | Novelist's novel, O, To Sell Trifle (3,7) |
| ALICEWALKER | US author of novels including The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize, 1983) (5,6) |
| CATHER | Willa ___: Author of "O Pioneers!" (6) |
| IVAR | Crazy ___ ("O Pioneers!" hermit) |
| NEBRASKA | "O Pioneers!" setting |
| OMAHA | City in Cather's "O Pioneers!" |
| NICOLE | US author of novels Great House and The History of Love (6,6) |
| ELDOCTOROW | US author of novels Andrew's Brain and Homer and Langley (1,1,8) |
| NICOLEKRAUSS | US author of novels Great House and The History of Love |
| HAY | Music hall comic actor in films including Oh, Mr Porter! and My Learned Friend ; or, the short name of a Welsh town with an annual literary festival (3) |
| MARKTWAIN | US author of novels including The Prince And The Pauper (1881) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) (4,5) |
| JOHN | And 19 US author of novels including 1939's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)(4,9) |
| MARIOPUZO | US author of novels including The Godfather and The Sicilian (5,4) |
| HIAASEN | Carl ___, US author of novels Lucky You and Sick Puppy (7) |
| JOHNRINGO | US author of novels Against the Tide and Live Free or Die (4,5) |
| BLUME | Judy ?, US author of novels Wifey, Blubber and Deenie (5) |
| VIDAL | Gore ?, US author of novels Julian and Creation (5) |
| VONNEGUT | Kurt ___, US author of novels including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Timequake (1997) (8) |
