Answer:

author

Answer	Crossword Clue
AUTHOR	Curtain call cry
AUTHOR	Novel producer
AUTHOR	Tan or Brown

AUTHOR	Write
AUTHOR	Pope or King
AUTHOR	Mailer or Miller
AUTHOR	J.K. Rowling, for one
AUTHOR	Writer
AUTHOR	Appreciative cry after a play
AUTHOR	Creator
AUTHOR	Name on the cover

AUTHOR	Novelist
AUTHOR	Lamb or Rice
AUTHOR	Name on a spine
AUTHOR	Manuscript producer
AUTHOR	Card-catalogue datum
AUTHOR	Lamb or Bacon
AUTHOR	Audience cry
AUTHOR	Bacon or Lamb

AUTHOR	Playwright, e.g.
AUTHOR	One with a byline
AUTHOR	Spine line
AUTHOR	Touring pro, perhaps
AUTHOR	Name on a jacket
AUTHOR	Budd Schulberg, for instance.
AUTHOR	Curtain-call cry.
AUTHOR	Curtain call on a first night.

AUTHOR	Creator.
AUTHOR	Curtain-call figure.
AUTHOR	Curtain call cry.
AUTHOR	First-nighter's cry.
AUTHOR	Opening-night call
AUTHOR	Harold Robbins or Robin Cook
AUTHOR	King or Sheldon
AUTHOR	Glasgow or London

AUTHOR	London or Manchester, e.g.
AUTHOR	Create
AUTHOR	Pen
AUTHOR	Stephen King or Ellery Queen
AUTHOR	Novelist, e.g.