OK, time to call this one to a close. The missing answers:
Robert
Anson Heinlein (so close, doubleshuffle!)
Benoit
B Mandelbrot: It doesn't stand for anything, although it has been suggested it stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot.
Lyman Frank Baum
Stephen
Michael Stirling
Roberta Ann MacAvoy
Toni Katherine Flora Weisskopf (OK, the Toni is Antonia, but those are the initials she writes under.)
Names from Initials. One point per name.
1.
Herbert George Wells: HIMS - 2 points
2.
Lucy Maud Montgomery: HIMS - 2 points
3.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 2 points
4.
Edward Frederic Benson: poohbear_nc - 2 points
5.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling: doubleshuffle - 1 point, Shayne - 1 point
6. Robert A Heinlein
7. Benoit B Mandelbrot
8.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: orlok - 2 points
9.
Henry Rider Haggard: doubleshuffle - 1 point
10.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: doubleshuffle - 2 points
11.
Edith Nesbit: doubleshuffle - 1 point
12. L Frank Baum
13.
Stephen M Stirling: doubleshuffle - 1 point
14 R A MacAvoy
15 T K F Weisskopf
16 Ursula
Kroeber LeGuin: poohbear_nc - 1 point
17
Carolyn Janice Cherryh: poohbear_nc - 2 points
18 E
Charles Tubb: doubleshuffle - 1 point
19
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: HIMS - 2 points
20 Clifford
Donald Simak: poohbear_nc - 1 point
doubleshuffle: 8 points
HIMS: 6 points
poohbear_nc: 6 points
Shayne: 3 points
orlok: 2 points
I declare doubleshuffle the winner!
Over to you!