Answer:

WOLFE

Answer	Crossword Clue
WOLFE	Stout's portly detective
WOLFE	"The Right Stuff" author
WOLFE	Author Tom or Thomas

WOLFE	Rex Stout sleuth
WOLFE	White-suited author Tom
WOLFE	Battle of Quebec general James
WOLFE	"Look Homeward, Angel" author
WOLFE	"Look Homeward, Angel" author Thomas
WOLFE	Stout hero Nero
WOLFE	Stout sleuth Nero
WOLFE	Writer Tom or Thomas

WOLFE	"A Man in Full" author
WOLFE	"The Right Stuff" author Tom
WOLFE	Stout's stout sleuth
WOLFE	Stout detective Nero ...
WOLFE	"The Bonfire of the Vanities" author
WOLFE	Stout sleuth, in more ways than one
WOLFE	"Bonfire of the Vanities" author
WOLFE	Orchid-loving detective

WOLFE	"A Man in Full" novelist
WOLFE	Rex Stout detective
WOLFE	Novelist Tom or Thomas
WOLFE	Stout detective
WOLFE	"Too Many Cooks" sleuth
WOLFE	Orchid-loving sleuth
WOLFE	"The Right Stuff" writer
WOLFE	Stout's sleuth

WOLFE	Author of "The Right Stuff"
WOLFE	Detective and orchid-grower.
WOLFE	One of the Neros.
WOLFE	American novelist.
WOLFE	Creator of Eugene Gant.
WOLFE	Montcalm's rival.
WOLFE	Writer Thomas
WOLFE	Montcalm's foe at Quebec: 1759

WOLFE	Stout's Nero
WOLFE	Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise)
WOLFE	"Champagne for One" sleuth
WOLFE	Tom or Thomas
WOLFE	Stout detective Nero