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- Author who, with his friends, famously formed the Merry Pranksters
- Author whom Carl Sagan called "the greatest explainer of the age"
- Author whose "Earth's Children" series has sold more than 45 million copies
- Author whose books feature witches and vampires
- Author whose first book containing the characters at 17, 23, 46, and 51 Across appeared 150 years ago this week
- Author whose given name was Alan Alexander
- Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work
- Author whose landmark work began as "Catch-18"
- Author whose main character is Jack Reacher
- Author whose most famous character is introduced as Edward Bear
- Author whose name is one letter off from 31-Down
- Author whose novels span 6,000 years
- Author whose only published novel won a Pulitzer
- Author whose son was named Christopher Robin
- Author whose titles include 36-Across before "Storm Rising" and "Rabbit"
- Author whose titles often feature two animals
- Author whose verses inspired "Cats"
- Author Wiesel
- Author Wilde
- Author Wilfrid and family
- Author Willa
- Author Willa and family
- Author William S Porter
- Author Winslow
- Author Wister
- Author Wister of "The Virginian"
- Author Wister
- Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family"
- Author with a fan site called "Into the Wardrobe"
- Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia
- Author with a restaurant at the Eiffel Tower named for him
- Author with a son named Christopher Robin
- Author with no contractual obligation
- Author with over 275 million books in print
- Author with the pen name Saki
- Author with three 5-letter names
- Author without credit
- Author Wodehouse
- Author Wolf
- Author Wolfert or Levin
- Author Wolfert
- Author Woolf gets some exercise?
- Author Wortman
- Author Wouk
- Author Wouk
- Author Wren's family name
- Author Wylie
- Author Wylie and soprano Ross
- Author Yutang
- Author Yutang
- Author Zane
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- Author Zane
- Author Zinsser
- Author Zola
- Author Zola
- Author Zona
- Author Zora
- Author Zora -- Hurston
- Author Zora Neale ___
- Author Zora Neale ___ of the Harlem Renaissance
- Author Zora __ Hurston
- Author Zora ___ Hurston
- Author Zora _____ Hurston
- Author Zweig
- Author Zweig
- Author __ Bashevis Singer
- Author __ Christian Andersen
- Author __ de Saint-Exupéry
- Author __ Douglas Wiggin
- Author __ Doyle
- Author __ Easton Ellis
- Author __ Hubbard
- Author __ Lee Hope
- Author __ Leonard
- Author __ Louis Stevenson
- Author __ Luis Borges
- Author __ Mae Brown
- Author __ Maria Remarque
- Author __ May Alcott
- Author __ Morrow Lindbergh
- Author __ Neale Hurston
- Author __ Rogers St Johns
- Author __ Scott Card
- Author __ Stanley Gardner
- Author __ Yutang
- Author ___ Bashevis Singer
- Author ___ Carol Oates
- Author ___ Christian Andersen
- Author ___ Congwen
- Author ___ de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author ___ Donald Walsch
- Author ___ Easton Ellis
- Author ___ Eliav
- Author ___ Gallant
- Author ___ Hubbard
- Author ___ Hunter
- Author ___ Ingalls Wilder
- Author ___ J Cooper