| 100% | KAT | 3 | ___ Chow, author of 2021's "Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir" |
| 52% | STANLEE | 7 | Author of 2015's "Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir" |
| 48% | PROSYATHLETE | 12 | Author of a dull sports memoir? |
| 48% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 48% | AMYTAN | 6 | Author of "Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir" (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017) |
| 45% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 45% | GRIMBLE | 7 | Arthur —, author of 1952 memoir A Pattern of Islands |
| 45% | MAYLE | 5 | Peter —, author of 1989 memoir A Year in Provence |
| 44% | CARTER | 6 | "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President" author |
| 43% | HACKETT | 7 | John Winthrop —, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger |
| 43% | SUSANNAKAYSEN | 13 | Author of "Girl, Interrupted," a memoir adapted into a film starring Winona Ryder (2 wds.) |
| 43% | HACKETT | 7 | Sir John Winthrop —, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger |
| 42% | MUIR | 4 | Frank —, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 memoir A Kentish Lad |
| 42% | BOBDOLE | 7 | Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story" |
| 42% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the 2020 memoir "A Promised Land" |
| 41% | HOGG | 4 | James —, Scottish author of 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
| 41% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 41% | MIEKO | 5 | Author Kawakami who wrote “Heaven,” a story of teen-age bullying (trans. May, 2021) |
| 40% | SOLOMONNORTHUP | 14 | Author of the 1853 memoir "Twelve Years a Slave," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 39% | XXXXXXXXXX | 10 | Author of 1902's "To Build a Fire" |
| 39% | ASHEN | 5 | Like one who's seen a ghost |
| 39% | SPOOKED | 7 | Like one who's seen a ghost |
| 39% | FELIXSALTEN | 11 | Author of 1923 children's book Bambi, a Life in the Woods |
| 39% | WOLFF | 5 | Tobias —, US author of 1989 memoir This Boy's Life |
| 39% | KEE | 3 | Robert —, author of 1947 memoir A Crowd Is Not Company; one of the original five presenters on TV-am |
| 39% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 39% | HAZELWOOD | 9 | Author of 2021 BookTok star The Love Hypothesis |
| 39% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for "Hell of a Book": 2 wds. |
| 38% | AMIS | 4 | Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order |
| 38% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |