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Across
  1. 2. Leaves of Grass poet
  2. 3. His "Border Trilogy" follows cowboys along the Mexican border
  3. 6. Gatsby author
  4. 8. her great novels explore Black experience and won Nobel
  5. 9. Wrote Cannery Row
  6. 12. lone survivor of Ahab's hunt for the white whale
  7. 13. same fate as Woolf
  8. 15. Middle name of "East is East" and "Dogology" author
  9. 16. Witches author
Down
  1. 1. Belle of Amherst
  2. 4. Hemingway used his quote about peace to title short stories
  3. 5. Hiawatha poet
  4. 7. She knew why the caged bird sings
  5. 9. Strange clan that populates Faulkner trilogy
  6. 10. His heroes are sometimes lawyers, like he himself is
  7. 11. Real-life WW2 experience in slaughterhouse inspired a novel
  8. 14. Thoreau's meditation from a cabin in the woods