There is a total of 136549 clues beginning with a
- Author Cynthia
- Author Dahl
- Author Dame Antonia
- Author Davidson ("Loose Change")
- Author Davis, et al
- Author Davis
- Author de Balzac
- Author de Beauvoir
- Author de Hartog
- Author de Hartog
- Author de la Ramée
- Author de la Roche
- Author de la ___
- Author de Maupassant
- Author de Queiroz
- Author de St Exupery
- Author Defoe
- Author Deighton
- Author Deighton
- Author DeLillo
- Author Delmar
- Author DeMille
- Author depicted next to a steamboat on a 2011 stamp
- Author DeVries
- Author di Donato
- Author Dianthe
- Author Diaz (sounds like Alaska's capital)
- Author Didion
- Author Dinesen
- Author Dinesesn
- Author Dinesin
- Author Donna who wrote "The Secret History"
- Author Dos ___
- Author Dostoyevsky
- Author Douglas
- Author Doyle's middle name
- Author Dr Yutang
- Author Drury
- Author du Maurier
- Author Dumas ____
- Author EB
- Author EM et al
- Author Earl __ Biggers
- Author Earl ___ Biggers
- Author Eda
- Author Eda Le __
- Author Edel
- Author Edgar Allan __
- Author Edgar Allan ___
- Author Edman
- Author Edward E
- Author Ehrenburg
- Author Eliau
- Author Eliav
- Author Elinor who said sex appeal was "it"
- Author Eliot or Sand
- Author Eliot, actually
- Author Elizabeth
- Author Elkin
- Author Ellison
- Author Elmore
- Author Emile
- Author Emily
- Author entombed near Chaucer in 1599, thus creating Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner
- Author Ephron
- Author Ephron and others
- Author Eric
- Author Eric
- Author Erica
- Author Erich
- Author Erich or actor George
- Author Ernest
- Author Ernest Thompson ___
- Author Ernie or Howard
- Author Esquivel
- Author Eudora
- Author Evelyn
- Author Evelyn's brother
- Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial
- Author expelled from West Point
- Author expelled from West Point in 1831
- Author Ezra located his basset?
- Author Falacci
- Author Fallaci
- Author famous since 6th century B C
- Author Fannie
- Author Fannie who wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes"
- Author Fannie
- Author Fast
- Author Faure
- Author featured herein
- Author Felix
- Author Feodor
- Author Ferber
- Author Ferber and actress Best
- Author Ferber and others
- Author Ferber et al
- Author Ferber
- Author Ferrante
- Author Ferrante of the "Neapolitan Novels"