Richard Bachman and Acton Bell are pseudonyms, not real names.

Thanks Puddles, sloppily formulated on my part. If I can work out how to do it (not very good on the PC) I shall correct it.

Goodie n tuffie

Think you got the wrong end of the stick there puddles. That is what the connection is - pseudonyms of writers better known by their real names - the other groups are all real names - that group is the other way round (or am I seeing a corrected version ?)

Definitely fiendish - but equally definitely a good grid !!

I ran out of time with nothing solved but got the links - very tough! well done.

I didn't change anything. After checking the grid, I see I didn't actually say Bachman and Bell were real names. However, Puddles is right in that I should have allowed "Pseudonyms" as a connection, just didn't think of it, sorry

put 'rapper' in for the first group but didn't didn't take it

I figured out the connections, bit had to use Google to help get the members of each. So a slight cheat. Very challenging, but great idea.

The authors one confused me a bit. Bachman is King's pseudonym. But Blair is Orwell's birth name. Bell was the Brontë pseudonym but Cornwell was LeCarre's real name. So you have two Pseudonyms in that group and two birth names.