100% | NORRIS | 6 | Frank ___, Progressive-era novelist who wrote "The Octopus" and "McTeague" |
62% | NORRIS | 6 | Novelist Frank who wrote "The Octopus" |
57% | ANGIETHOMAS | 11 | Novelist who wrote the Y.A. bestsellers 17-Across and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
55% | BRIANJACQUES | 12 | British novelist who wrote the "Redwall" and "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series (2 wds.) |
54% | RUTHWARE | 8 | British novelist who wrote the bestsellers "The Woman in Cabin 10," 15-Across, and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
53% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist who wrote "The Shining" and 37-Across (2 wds.) |
53% | READE | 5 | Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" |
53% | TANAFRENCH | 10 | Irish novelist who wrote "In the Woods," "The Witch Elm," and "The Hunter" (2 wds.) |
53% | ANA | 3 | Novelist Huang who writes the "Twisted" and "Kings of Sin" romance series |
52% | LEIGHBARDUGO | 12 | American novelist who wrote 17-Across, 40-Across, and the "Shadow and Bone" trilogy (2 wds.) |
52% | ELLE | 4 | Novelist Kennedy who writes the Briar U and Avalon Bay romance series |
52% | WILLACATHER | 11 | American novelist who wrote the Great Plains trilogy of 15-Across, "The Song of the Lark," and 45-Across (2 wds.) |
51% | DEANKOONTZ | 10 | Novelist who wrote the "Odd Thomas" thrillers |
50% | SEE | 3 | Novelist Lisa who wrote "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" |
50% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 15-Across, 29-Across, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Night Watchman" (2 wds.) |
50% | FAULKNER | 8 | Novelist William who wrote "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" |
50% | ROALD | 5 | Novelist Dahl who wrote "Matilda" and "James and the Giant Peach" |
50% | DEANKOONTZ | 10 | Novelist who wrote the "Odd Thomas" thrillers |
50% | TESSADARE | 9 | Romance novelist who wrote The Duchess Deal |
49% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Novelist who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and the other three frequently banned books in this puzzle (2 wds.) |
49% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist who wrote the 1983 bestseller "Pet Sematary" (2 wds.) |
49% | PRIESTLEY | 9 | J.B. __; novelist who wrote The Good Companions |
49% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Irish novelist who wrote "The Country Girls," "House of Splendid Isolation," and "Girls" (2 wds.) |
48% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
48% | TANAFRENCH | 10 | *Irish novelist who writes the "Dublin Murder Squad" series |
48% | LEONURIS | 8 | Novelist who wrote "Exodus" and "Topaz" |
48% | DAVIDMITCHELL | 13 | English novelist who wrote "Cloud Atlas," "The Bone Clocks," and 18-Across (2 wds.) |
48% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Fantasy novelist who wrote "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book": 2 wds. |
48% | URIS | 4 | Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" |
48% | MIRANDAJAMES | 12 | Novelist who writes the Cat in the Stacks mystery series (2 wds.) |