[Political Junkie Too]

About five minutes (maybe six). I started with the one-letter word, then found the most common letter and most common word. Then I fooled around with some of the two-letter words until I hit on the key four-letter word that opened up the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Keep working on your 1-2 combination.

[grey_whiskers]

About a minute and a half.
First word, then most common letter gives next-to-last word.

Those give word 15 trivially.

Then word 15 by grammar gives you.
That gives words 14 and 16, and those give you the author’s name.

That gives word 10 and you’re good to go.