Possible Clues:

• Answering me, they ruffled American author
• He wrote, 'The lough's the way of the Chinese dynasty'
• Half-hearted attitude of Hardy's Power Girl
• Author of 'To Have and Have Not'
• Writer depicting seabirds according to Chinese dynastic principles?
• "The Sun Also Rises" author
• Author with serious style getting the edge, say
• Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine
• In West Germany he flourished as a writer
• Author's serious and attracting attention, to judge by what we hear