| Author's rep | 16 |
| Author's pseudonym | 22 |
| Author's promoter | 21 |
| Author's pals | 17 |
| Author's output: Abbr. | 26 |
| Author's offerings (Abbr.) | 30 |
| Author's notebook items | 27 |
| Author's negotiator | 23 |
| Author's monogram | 21 |
| Author's letter to an editor | 32 |
| Author's last word? | 23 |
| Author's last word | 22 |
| Author's kiss of death | 26 |
| Author's inspiration | 24 |
| Author's hangout? | 21 |
| Author's hang-up | 20 |
| Author's explanation | 24 |
| Author's encore: Abbr. | 26 |
| Author's encl. | 18 |
| Author's employee | 21 |
| Author's dream | 18 |
| Author's desire | 19 |
| Author's decision | 21 |
| Author's concern | 20 |
| Author's choice | 19 |
| Author's chief work | 23 |
| Author's bane | 17 |
| Author's author | 19 |
| Author's assistant | 22 |
| Author's approach | 21 |
| Author's antique, perhaps | 29 |
| Author's alias | 18 |
| Author's address? | 21 |
| Author's acknowledgement | 28 |
| Author's "jackpot" | 32 |
| Author! Author! actress | 27 |
| Author _____ Gallant | 20 |
| Author _____ Chandler Harris | 28 |
| Author _____ Alexander | 22 |
| Author ____ Ingalls Wilder | 26 |
| Author ___-Michel Kpomassie | 27 |
| Author ___-Exupéry | 21 |
| Author ___ Yutang | 17 |
| Author ___ Virginia Woolf | 25 |
| Author ___ Stanley Gardner | 26 |
| Author ___ S. Connell | 21 |
| Author ___ Rogers St. Johns | 27 |
| Author ___ Roche | 16 |
| Author ___ Passos | 17 |
| Author ___ Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Author ___ Maria Remarque | 25 |
| Author ___ Mae Brown | 20 |
| Author ___ Luis Borges | 22 |
| Author ___ Louis Stevenson | 26 |
| Author ___ LeShan | 17 |
| Author ___ Le Guin | 18 |
| Author ___ Ingalls Wilder | 25 |
| Author ___ Hubbard | 18 |
| Author ___ Eliav | 16 |
| Author ___ Easton Ellis | 23 |
| Author ___ de Cervantes Saavedra | 32 |
| Author ___ Congwen | 18 |
| Author ___ Christian Andersen | 29 |
| Author ___ Bashevis Singer | 26 |
| Author __ Stanley Gardner | 25 |
| Author __ Rogers St. Johns | 26 |
| Author __ Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Author __ May Alcott | 20 |
| Author __ Maria Remarque | 24 |
| Author __ Mae Brown | 19 |
| Author __ Louis Stevenson | 25 |
| Author __ Lee Hope | 18 |
| Author __ Hubbard | 17 |
| Author __ Easton Ellis | 22 |
| Author __ de Saint-Exupéry | 29 |
| Author __ Christian Andersen | 28 |
| Author Zweig | 12 |
| Author Zora _____ Hurston | 25 |
| Author Zora ___ Hurston | 23 |
| Author Zora __ Hurston | 22 |
| Author Zora Neale ___ of the Harlem Renaissance | 47 |
| Author Zora -- Hurston | 22 |
| Author Zona | 11 |
| Author Zola | 11 |
| Author Zane ___ | 15 |
| Author Zane __ | 14 |
| Author Zane | 11 |
| Author Yutang | 13 |
| Author Wylie and soprano Ross | 29 |
| Author Wylie | 12 |
| Author Wren's family name | 29 |
| Author Wouk | 11 |
| Author Wortman | 14 |
| Author Wolfert or Levin | 23 |
| Author without credit | 21 |
| Author with the pen name Saki | 29 |
| Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia | 42 |
| Author with a Moscow park named after him | 41 |
| Author with a fan site called "Into the Wardrobe" | 59 |
| Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" | 71 |