AUTHOR OF THE BEST SELLER
Author of the Books of Chronicles, by tradition
Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852)
Author of the children's book "If Roast Beef Could Fly"
AUTHOR OF THE CONTROVERSI
Author of the cookbook "Louisiana Real & Rustic"
Author of the definition
author of the epic poem `Aeneid'
Author of the fictional novella "The Pension Grillparzer"
Author of The Hobbit
Author of the Iliad
Author of the line "It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes"
Author of the macabre
Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story"
Author of The Mill on the Floss
author of the mysterious stranger
Author of the observation, briefly
Author of the Oprah's Book Club selection "We Were the Mulvaneys"
Author of the Picture of Dorian Gray
Author of The Pilgrim's Progress
Author of the quip
Author of the quip at 20-, 37-, 51-, 66-, 20-, 37-, and 51-Across
Author of the quotation
Author of the quote
Author of the quote "I am not what you call a civilized man!"
AUTHOR OF THE QUOTE BEGIN
author of the scarlet pimpernal
Author of the slogan
author of the spy novel The IPCRESS File
Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
Author of the story collection "Little Birds"
Author of the third gospel
Author of the Three Laws of Robotics
Author of The Three Musketeers
Author of the travelogue "In Sweden"
Author of The Turn of the Screw
Author of the upcoming "Z Is for Zero"
AUTHOR OF THEOLOGICAL WORKS AND OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
Author of this puzzle's quote
author of to the lighthouse
Author of today's quote
Author of Ulysses
AUTHOR OF UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
Author or manufacture
author or persuasion
Author Orczy, for one
Author Oscar
Author Oz
author Oz Israeli
Author Paretsky
Author Paretsky and others
Author Patchett
Author Patchett or Beattie
Author Patchett or Rule
Author Paton
Author Peter
author Peter Pan
AUTHOR PHILIP
Author Philip and others
Author Philip K. ___
Author Phillpotts
author philosopher
author physicist
Author Pierce
AUTHOR PIRANDELLO
Author Plain
AUTHOR PLAIN
author playwright
Author portrayed in the miniseries "The Lost Boys"
Author Prosper ___ who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based
author Pulitzer 1934 writer
AUTHOR PULITZER 1934 WRITER
Author Puzo
Author Quindlen
Author Ralph ___ Emerson
Author Rand
Author Rand et al.
Author Rankin
author raymond
Author Read
Author Rendell
author Report
AUTHOR REPORT
Author Rice
Author Rice athlete
AUTHOR RICE ATHLETE
Author Rice or Actress Hathaway
Author Richard 1987 Pulitzer critic
AUTHOR RICHARD 1987 PULITZER CRITIC
AUTHOR RICHARD HENRY ___
Author Rita ___ Brown
Author Roald
Author Robbins Actor
Author Robert Actor
Author Roberts
Author Rolvaag
author Roman people
AUTHOR ROMBAUER 'JOY OF COOKING, THE' AUTHOR
author Rombauer Cookbook abbr.
AUTHOR ROMBAUER COOKBOOK ABBR.
AUTHOR RONA
Author Rule
author Russian people
Author Sackville-West
Author said to have influenced Hitchcock
Author Samuel
Author Santha ___ Rau
Author Sarah ___ Jewett
Author Schuster
author Secret
Author seen looking to the left in photo, I learned
Author Segal
AUTHOR SEGAL 'LOVE STORY' AUTHOR ERICH
Author Seton
AUTHOR SETON 'DRAGONWYCK' AUTHOR ANYA
Author Sewell
Author Sheehy
Author Shelley
Author Shere
Author Sholem
Author Shreve
Author Shute
Author Silverstein
AUTHOR SIMPSON
Author Simpson et al.
Author Sinclair
Author Sinclair or baseball's B.J.
Author Singer
AUTHOR SINGER
Author Sir Walter
Author sisters' surname
Author Snicket
Author Sontag
Author St. Vincent Millay
AUTHOR STANISLAW
Author Stevenson's monogram
Author Stieg Larsson, for one
Author Stieg Larsson's homeland
AUTHOR STOKER 'DRACULA' AUTHOR
Author Stout
Author Stout or critic Reed
AUTHOR SUBMISSION
Author suggested by the starts of 16-, 24- and 49-Across
Author Susan Actress
Author T. S. ___
Author Talese
Author Tan
AUTHOR TAN
Author Tan and others
Author Tarbell
Author taught by HG Wells
Author taught by Thoreau
Author Thomas Actress
AUTHOR THOMAS ACTRESS
Author to be afraid of?
Author Tolstoy
Author Tom
AUTHOR TOM
Author Tom or Thomas
Author Truman
Author Turgenev
Author Tutuola
Author Twain
Author Tyler
Author Tyler Actress
Author Tyler or Rice
Author Umberto
Author uncertain: Abbr.
Author unknown
Author unknown (abbr.)
Author unknown byline
Author unknown byline, briefly
Author unknown, briefly
AUTHOR UNKNOWN, FOR SHORT
Author unknown: Abbr.
Author Uris
AUTHOR URIS 'EXODUS' ACTOR
Author Victor
AUTHOR VICTOR
Author Vidal
Author Vonnegut
AUTHOR VONNEGUT AND OTHER
Author w/o a name?
Author Walker
Author Wallace
Author Wallace Actor
AUTHOR WALLACE ACTOR
Author Waugh
Author Weldon
Author Welty
Author Wharton
Author Whitney and others (abbr.)
AUTHOR WHITNEY AND OTHERS (ABBR.)
Author who "a lot of us ... pick[ed] up ... when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood," per Obama
Author who coined the term "robotics"
Author who created John Galt
Author who created the characters named by the starts of 17-, 24-, 49- and 61-Across
Author who created Zuckerman
Author who doesn't maintain an Academy Awards fansite
Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty"
Author who felt tulips growing up his legs upon drinking his first glass of 51-Across
Author who influenced Conan Doyle
Author who influenced Verne
Author who inspired a Baltimore team's nickname
Author who inspired Verne
Author who is on the money?
Author who kept journals for 60+ years
Author who popularized the demon Mephistopheles
Author who referred to his works as a "legendarium"
Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve"
Author who shares his name with a German state
Author who was a childhood friend of Harper Lee
AUTHOR WHO WAS THE TITLE SUBJECT OF THE BEST PICTURE OF 1937
Author who went by his first two initials
AUTHOR WHO WON A POSTHUMO
Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958
Author who won the 1986 Peace Prize
Author who worked on Friday?
Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones?
Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today"
Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
Author who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"
Author who wrote "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life"
Author who wrote "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again"
Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit"
Author who wrote on Friday
Author who wrote the Thongor fantasy series
Author whose "Earth's Children" series has sold more than 45 million copies
Author whose books feature witches and vampires
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 verses inspired "Cats"
Author Wiesel
Author Wilde
Author Wilder Actor
Author Winslow
AUTHOR WISTER 'VIRGINIAN, THE' ACTOR DOUG
Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family"
Author with a restaurant at the Eiffel Tower named for him
Author with a son named Christopher Robin
Author with characters who share the surnames of 17-, 29-, and 48-Across
Author with over 275 million books in print
Author with the pen name Saki
Author with three 5-letter names
Author Wolfert or Levin
Author Wortman
Author Wouk