| 100% | PUZO | 4 | "Fools Die" author |
| 68% | ERICA | 5 | "Fear of Dying" author Jong |
| 68% | FAULKNER | 8 | "As I Lay Dying" author |
| 66% | LEE | 3 | Author Harper ___ who died in February |
| 66% | SUE | 3 | Author Grafton who died last December |
| 66% | TONI | 4 | Author Morrison who died in 2019 |
| 65% | MAE | 3 | Rita ___ Brown, "Nine Lives to Die" author |
| 64% | ERNEST | 6 | “A Lesson Before Dying” author ___ J. Gaines |
| 61% | CORMAC | 6 | The Road author McCarthy, who recently died |
| 60% | RUSSO | 5 | "Nobody's Fool" author Richard |
| 57% | ERSKINE | 7 | & 9A Author of novels Tragic Ground and Poor Fool |
| 56% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 56% | DUMAS | 5 | Author who died before finishing his novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine |
| 55% | STEWARTLEE | 10 | Stand-up comedian; author of 2001 novel The Perfect Fool |
| 55% | ERICCARLE | 9 | “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” author, who died in May, 2021 |
| 52% | HEINE | 5 | "Die Harzreise" author Heinrich |
| 52% | JOHNRINGO | 9 | US author of novels Against the Tide and Live Free or Die |
| 52% | ENNIUS | 6 | Quintus —, Roman author of epic poem Annales who died in 169 BC |
| 52% | BEWICK | 6 | Thomas —, author of A History of British Birds who died in 1828 |
| 50% | JONSON | 6 | Ben —, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 50% | KAVANAGH | 8 | Patrick —, Irish poet and novelist who authored 1938 autobiographical work The Green Fool |
| 48% | RENAULT | 7 | Mary —, author of historical novels The Mask of Apollo and The King Must Die |
| 48% | PLINY | 5 | — the Elder, Roman author who died witnessing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD |
| 46% | PETERPORTER | 11 | Australia-born poet, author of volumes Max is Missing and Afterburner, who died in 2010 |
| 44% | MAO | 3 | Red Book author |
| 44% | READE | 5 | Aptly named author |
| 44% | JAMESBEARD | 10 | Popular cookbook author |
| 44% | WROTE | 5 | Acted the author |
| 44% | LIVY | 4 | Augustan Age author |
| 44% | ROGET | 5 | Noted thesaurus author |