| ALICEWALKER | US author of novels including The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize, 1983) (5,6) |
| SYMONS | Author of a number of crime novels including The Colour of Murder and The Paper Chase (6) |
| ALICE | "The Color Purple" Pulitzer winner Walker |
| WALESA | The electrician who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1983) |
| COLOR | "The ___ Purple" (Pulitzer-winning Alice Walker novel) |
| REDCOAT | Garment worn by a Welsh Guard (including the colour) (3,4) |
| IRISMURDOCH | English author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, the Sea (1978) |
| WALKER | US author of novels including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (1982) (5,6) |
| WILLACATHER | US author of novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia (5,6) |
| RUTHRENDELL | English author of novels including the Inspector Wexford series published from 1964 to 2013 (4,7) |
| IRVINEWELSH | Scottish author of novels including the upcoming Resolution (2024) (6,5) |
| EDITHWHARTON | US author of novels including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence (1920) (5,7) |
| TOMWOLFE | US author of novels including The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) (3,5) |
| WHARTON | Author of novels including The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence and the nonfiction The Decoration of Houses (7) |
| MARIOPUZO | US author of novels including The Godfather and The Sicilian (5,4) |
| MARKTWAIN | US author of novels including The Prince And The Pauper (1881) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) (4,5) |
| FOLLETT | Ken -; author of the Kingsbridge series of novels including The Pillars of the Earth,World Without End and The Evening and the Morning (7) |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| AYNRAND | (GKN) Russian-born US author of novels including The Fountainhead (1943) |
| JOHN | And 19 US author of novels including 1939's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)(4,9) |
