Possible Clues:

• Author's second chapter a bit too much
• Adam of "Severance"
• Novelist F. __ Fitzgerald
• Gloria ___, first black president of the Girl Scouts, 1975
• Mexican War general known as Old Fuss and Feathers
• Film in which The Monkees met Jack Nicholson
• 'The Bride of Lammermoor' author
• - - of the Antarctic
• See 14 down
• Novelist Sir Walter