Answer:

novelist

Answer	Crossword Clue
NOVELIST	Mailer or Tyler
NOVELIST	Long story writer
NOVELIST	King or Queen

NOVELIST	Fiction writer
NOVELIST	Faulkner.
NOVELIST	Member of P. E. N.
NOVELIST	John Cheever, for one.
NOVELIST	Cornwell or Clancy, e.g.

Crossword

a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.