| SCENES | _____ From A Writer's Life: an autobiographical novel written by Bond |
| STORY | As from a writer's pen, or in a farmer's pen? (5) |
| LYDIA | Love for -; semi-autobiographical novel written by H. E. Bates (5) |
| HAMONRYE | Semi-autobiographical novel written by Charles Bukowski that tells of his coming-of-age during the Great Depression: 3 wds. |
| PEDIGREE | An autobiographical novel by Belgian author Georges Simenon (8) |
| ADEATHINTHEFAMILY | An autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee |
| LARK | - Rise to Candleford ; trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels written by Flora Thompson (4) |
| IRA | "Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life" author Berkow |
| UMBRELLA | The Blue ________: a children's novel by Bond, made into a Bollywood movie in 2005 |
| TALESE | Author of "A Writer's Life" |
| STET | Confident reply from a writer to an editor, maybe |
| SCRIBE | Two hands drop out at the start, to get an account from a writer (6) |
| BOWTIE | Adorned by Bond, Churchill, Poirot and the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, a neck accessory with a shape reflected in farfalle or "butterfly" pasta; or, a pattern for patchwork quilts, resembling this |
| PRELUDE | The ---, an autobiographical epic poem by William Wordsworth (7) |
| ISLAND | "To the ___" is an autobiographical book by Janet Frame (2-4) |
| GHOST | "]ust like an old time movie, about a ___from a wishing well" from Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" (5) |
| ERA | From a different ___ (from a period in the past) |
| LETTERS | ___ from a Stoic a collection of 124 epistles by Seneca the Younger |
| MILK | A zookeeper feeds a baby elephant ___ from a baby bottle |
| ESSAY | You'd expect this from a writer in study (5) |
