| 100% | BRET | 4 | ___ Easton Ellis, "Less Than Zero" author who published his first book while he was still a student |
| 51% | PAOLINI | 7 | Christopher ___, "Eragon" author who published his first book when he was a teen |
| 44% | GORDON | 6 | ___ Korman, "This Can't Be Happening at Mcdonald Hall" author who published his first book when he was a teen |
| 35% | ALEC | 4 | ___ Greven, "How To Talk to Girls" author who published his first book at the age of 9 |
| 34% | HINTON | 6 | Susan Eloise ___, "The Outsiders" author who published her first book when she was a teen |
| 32% | FLAVIA | 6 | ___ Bujor, "The Prophecy of the Stones" author who published her first book when she was a teen |
| 32% | BRET | 4 | "Less Than Zero" author ___ Easton Ellis |
| 32% | BRET | 4 | “Less Than Zero” author ___ Easton Ellis |
| 26% | BRET | 4 | "Less Than Zero" writer ___ Easton Ellis |
| 26% | LEBRON | 6 | James who is more than a little forward? |
| 26% | FRANKMCCOURT | 12 | "Angela's Ashes" author who started publishing books in his 60s: 2 wds. |
| 25% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 25% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author whose first novel was anonymously published under the byline “By a Lady” |
| 24% | CHEKHOV | 7 | Russian playwright and author who was transported to his funeral in 1904 in a refrigerated oyster car |
| 24% | THOREAU | 7 | Henry David ___, essayist and a transcendentalist who is known for his book "Walden" |
| 23% | NAEL | 4 | Author of a poem that runs "The tiger / He destroyed his cage / Yes / YES / The tiger is out" |
| 23% | BOURDAIN | 8 | Anthony, his first book was Kitchen Confidential |
| 23% | OSIRIS | 6 | God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!) |
| 23% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author who died August 5, and who was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize: 2 wds. |
| 23% | AAMILNE | 7 | Author who published Now We Are Six at age 45 |
| 23% | TOOTLE | 6 | Little Golden Book about a young train who likes to go off his tracks to play in a meadow |
| 23% | JOHNFKENNEDY | 12 | 35th US president who published "Profiles in Courage" in 1956, while he was a senator: 3 wds. |
| 23% | ADAM | 4 | He was alone for a while |
| 23% | DALI | 4 | Artist who co-authored a book about his mustache |
| 23% | LESS | 4 | "___ Than Zero" (Bret Easton Ellis novel) |
| 23% | LESS | 4 | Bret Easton Ellis's "___ Than Zero" |
| 23% | MRED | 4 | He was more than a neigh-sayer |
| 22% | MILNE | 5 | Author who went by his first two initials |
| 22% | LESS | 4 | “___ Than Zero” (1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel) |
| 22% | HESSE | 5 | Author who shares his name with a German state |