| 100% | JOY | 3 | ___ Harjo, Native American writer who authored "Crazy Brave" |
| 64% | STEPHEN | 7 | ___ Graham Jones, Native American writer who authored "The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong" |
| 64% | SILKO | 5 | Leslie Marmon ___, Native American writer who authored "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" |
| 39% | AZTECS | 6 | Native Americans who worshipped Huitzilopochtli |
| 38% | CHERIE | 6 | ___ Dimaline, Indigenous writer who authored "The Marrow Thieves" |
| 38% | KING | 4 | Thomas ___, Indigenous writer who authored "Truth and Bright Water" |
| 37% | PEARLSBUCK | 10 | American writer who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (3 wds.) |
| 37% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American writer who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 37% | AESOP | 5 | Famed fable writer who authored "The Crow and the Pitcher" |
| 37% | SACAGAWEA | 9 | Native American who translated for Lewis and Clark |
| 36% | LEITH | 5 | Prue —, food writer who authored novels A Lovesome Thing and Leaving Patrick |
| 36% | GOETHE | 6 | Johann Wolfgang von —, German writer who authored stage plays Egmont and Clavigo |
| 36% | DAKOTA | 6 | Native American people after whom two US states are named |
| 36% | PERCE | 5 | Nez ___, Native Americans who breed their own horses |
| 35% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | American author who penned The Godfather |
| 35% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is famous for his work "The Pit and the Pendulum": 3 wds. |
| 35% | POCAHONTAS | 10 | Native American woman who married English settler John Rolfe in 1614 |
| 35% | PAINE | 5 | Thomas who authored influential pamphlets during the American Revolution |
| 35% | PAINE | 5 | Author Thomas ___ who wrote "The American Crisis" |
| 34% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 2012's "The Round House": 2 wds. |
| 34% | SHELDON | 7 | American author Sidney ___ who wrote the "Midnight" series |
| 34% | POE | 3 | American author who created the detective fiction genre |
| 34% | NSCOTTMOMADAY | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 1968's "House Made of Dawn": 3 wds. |
| 34% | BARR | 4 | American writer of mystery novels, Nevada ___ who created the fictional detective, Anna Pigeon |
| 33% | GHOST | 5 | ___ writers, "invisible" authors who might write spooky wordplay |
| 33% | CEBULSKI | 8 | C.B. ___, American writer who succeeded Axel Alsonso as the Editor-in-chief for Marvel Comics |
| 33% | ENO | 3 | Native American people in N. Carolina who amalgamated with the Catawbas in approx. 1715 |
| 33% | EDA | 3 | Author LeShan who wrote "When Your Child Drives You Crazy" |
| 33% | TED | 3 | American author ___ Bell who wrote the Alexander Hawke novel series |