Possible Clues:

• H. H. Munro, pseudonymously
• Reportedly caustic author of beastly tales
• 'The Story-Teller' storyteller
• "The Westminster Alice" author
• Sushi bar order: Var.
• Writer drunk as a monkey?
• 'Tobermory' writer
• Writer heard to be full of bitter irony
• South American monkey with a long bushy tail
• Did Munro get drunk in Japan?