Each phrase clues a person who is frequently referred to by two initials and a surname. Furthermore, each clue contains an anagram of that person's name with one letter changed. The original letters from the people's names read out HE WROTE OF ANIMALS. By the same transform, ANIMALS becomes the answer: AA MILNE.
Once banned, his famous book is cleared now | D. H. Lawrence | H | Lady Chatterly's Lover |
He had some reformist views on British-Indian relations | E. M. Forster | E | A Passage to India |
He cashed in on Wall Street | D. E. Shaw | W | |
Popular author, at least in middle school | R. L. Stine | R | |
A Kipling title is partially reused by him | T. S. Eliot | O | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
He knew the joy of a racing victory | A. J. Foyt | T | |
You know who spun this web; it's right there in his title | E. B. White | E | Charlotte's Web |
An often-quoted satirist, he's a pure joker | P. J. O'Rourke | O | |
His most famous work met with frigid reception in some circles due to its racist perspective | D. W. Griffith | F | Birth of a Nation |
Audiences respond not just to his bold directing style, but his flawed, often desperate characters | P. T. Anderson | A | |
An odd fact is that she's written for three different Star Trek series (or up to five, depending on how you count) | D. C. Fontana | N | Wrote for TOS, TNG, DS9...and the animated series and Phase II |
His readers know what the significance of the sword is, even if the character doesn't at the time | T. H. White | I | The Once and Future King |
You won't be seeing much capitalization from him | E. E. Cummings | M | |
He wound up hating his WW2 poem, but that didn't stop it from becoming famous | W. H. Auden | A | September 1, 1939 |
His jackets enable people to hike in the winter | L. L. Bean | L | |
He'd always be frank in his behavioral analyses | B. F. Skinner | S |