Possible Clues:

• General James ____ died in the hour of victory, over the French at Quebec in 1759
• Writer Thomas or Tom
• Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise)
• Author Thomas
• Tom whose second novel was 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'
• Tom who wrote 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'
• Stout's Nero
• Tom __, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Stout sleuth, in more ways than one
• 'The Right Stuff' writer