| 100% | LEN | 3 | ___ Deighton who wrote "Spy Story" |
| 100% | LEN | 3 | Deighton who wrote "Spy Story" |
| 65% | LEN | 3 | Deighton who wrote espionage novels |
| 64% | LEN | 3 | Deighton who wrote "The IPCRESS File" |
| 61% | LEN | 3 | Author Deighton who wrote "Funeral in Berlin" |
| 61% | LEN | 3 | Author ___ Deighton who wrote "Goodbye, Mickey Mouse" |
| 60% | SEGAL | 5 | Erich who wrote ''Love Story'' |
| 58% | ERICH | 5 | Segal who wrote "Love Story" |
| 58% | SEGAL | 5 | Erich who wrote "Love Story" |
| 57% | LECARRE | 7 | John who wrote "A Perfect Spy" |
| 57% | ENDE | 4 | Michael who wrote "The Neverending Story" |
| 57% | HARTE | 5 | Bret who wrote gold rush stories |
| 56% | IAN | 3 | Fleming who wrote the Bond spy novels |
| 56% | ALBEE | 5 | Playwright Edward who wrote "The Zoo Story" |
| 55% | LOWERY | 6 | David who wrote and directed A Ghost Story |
| 55% | POE | 3 | Eerie author who wrote the first detective story |
| 55% | SILVA | 5 | Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novels |
| 54% | SILVA | 5 | Novelist Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy thrillers |
| 53% | LENDEIGHTON | 11 | British novelist who wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | IANFLEMING | 10 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Loved Me" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 52% | TED | 3 | Novelist Bell who writes the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels |
| 51% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon who wrote the stories adapted as "Guys and Dolls" |
| 50% | JOHNLECARRE | 11 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (3 wds.) |
| 49% | LEN | 3 | "Spy Story" novelist Deighton |
| 49% | MIEKO | 5 | Author Kawakami who wrote “Heaven,” a story of teen-age bullying (trans. May, 2021) |
| 49% | DARIN | 5 | Strauss who wrote the 2020 novel "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story" |
| 48% | OCONNOR | 7 | Retired justice who wrote "Out of Order: Stories From the History of the Supreme Court" |
| 48% | NOAH | 4 | Comedian Trevor who wrote the memoir "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" |
| 48% | SHOLEM | 6 | Aleichem who wrote the stories on which Fiddler on the Roof is based |