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