Crossword Clue:

Writer on a slate

Answer	Crossword Clue
CHALK	Writer on a slate
RAN	Was on a slate
NOMINEE	One on a slate

NOMINEE	Name on a slate
RUN	Get on a slate
STENO	Writer on a pad
ELIA	"A Chapter on Ears" writer
SPEC	A writer may work on it
CHARLESSHEEP	"A Dissertation on Roast Pig" writer
ALGREN	"A Walk on the Wild Side" writer Nelson
HAVEABINONESBONNET	Obsess on one idea, to a letter writer?

READERMAEBROWN	Writer with a second career making books on tape?
ITALO	"If on a winter's night a traveler" writer Calvino