Possible Clues:

• Writer in South Africa having to hang around
• 'The Laughing Man' author
• Modern US writer is more sensible, holding nothing back
• Novelist in carousal in Germany
• 'Some - of a more ungainly make' (Fitzgerald)
• Jerome D ........ wrote ` ` The Catcher in the Rye' '
• J D ........, author of
• Caulfield's creator
• American novelist gets gangster trapped by one spilling the beans?
• Surprisingly realigns novelist