| 100% | CHRISTIE | 8 | Agatha __, author who disappeared in 1926 |
| 45% | CHRISTIE | 8 | Mystery writer Agatha who herself vanished in 1926 |
| 45% | AGEE | 4 | Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958 |
| 44% | BIERCE | 6 | Ambrose —, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 |
| 44% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author who received an O.B.E. in 2001 |
| 43% | SHELLEY | 7 | Mary ___, author who explored AI ethics in "Frankenstein" |
| 43% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 42% | LEN | 3 | Author Deighton who wrote "Funeral in Berlin" |
| 42% | LEOTOLSTOY | 10 | Author who penned "Hadji Murad" in 1912 and also had 13 children |
| 42% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 42% | HESSE | 5 | German-Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel in Literature |
| 41% | POIROT | 6 | Agatha Christie sleuth who first appeared in 1920 |
| 41% | STOKER | 6 | Author Bram who created Count Dracula in 1897 |
| 41% | ORLEAN | 6 | Author Susan whom Meryl Streep portrayed in "Adaptation" |
| 41% | HOFFA | 5 | Jimmy —, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1957-71 who disappeared in 1975 |
| 41% | MEANSTREAK | 10 | Sandra Brown mystery about a doctor/marathon runner who disappears in North Carolina (2 wds.) |
| 41% | AYNRAND | 7 | Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" |
| 41% | KNUTHAMSUN | 10 | *Norwegian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 |
| 41% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who was a neighbor of Twain in Hartford |
| 40% | KATEMILLETT | 11 | Author who wrote, in “Sexual Politics,” that “patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still” |
| 40% | ALCOTT | 6 | Best-selling author who served as a nurse in the Civil War |
| 40% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian short-story author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 40% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author J.R.R who was born in South Africa |
| 40% | IDA | 3 | Author Tarbell who wrote "All in the Day's Work" |
| 40% | FALLADA | 7 | German author Hans who wrote Alone in Berlin |
| 39% | TONI | 4 | Author Morrison who died in 2019 |
| 39% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 39% | MANDELA | 7 | "Long Walk to Freedom" author who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 |
| 39% | FRANKMCCOURT | 12 | "Angela's Ashes" author who started publishing books in his 60s: 2 wds. |
| 39% | BARTLETT | 8 | Author John who printed his first edition of quotations in 1855 |