| 100% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 89% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 47% | ALANPATON | 9 | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country |
| 47% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of the novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 47% | KORDA | 5 | Zoltan —, director of film dramas Cry, the Beloved Country and A Woman's Vengeance |
| 46% | HOLLINGHURST | 12 | Alan —, author of novels The Sparsholt Affair and The Stranger's Child |
| 46% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 45% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 45% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 45% | BANKS | 5 | Iain —, late author of novels The Business and The Wasp Factory |
| 45% | PYNCHON | 7 | Thomas —, author of novels Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 45% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
| 45% | JUDITHKRANTZ | 12 | Late author of the novels Princess Daisy and Scruples |
| 45% | PATON | 5 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" author Alan |
| 45% | PATON | 5 | “Cry, the Beloved Country” author Alan |
| 45% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 44% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of the novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 44% | ALLINGHAM | 9 | Margery —, author of detective novels Mystery Mile and The Case of the Late Pig |
| 44% | ECO | 3 | Umberto —, late author of novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 44% | HOBAN | 5 | Russell —, late author of the novels Riddley Walker and Kleinzeit |
| 43% | ALANPATON | 9 | Author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” |
| 42% | WILLSELF | 8 | Author of novels Shark, The Butt and Dorian |
| 41% | FAYWELDON | 9 | Author of the novels The Bulgari Connection and Big Women |
| 41% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 41% | SHRIVER | 7 | Lionel —, author of novels So Much for That and Checker and the Derailleurs |
| 40% | JAKEARNOTT | 10 | Author of novels The House of Rumour and The Fatal Tree |
| 40% | IRALEVIN | 8 | Author of novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 40% | SELF | 4 | Will —, author of novels Shark, The Butt and Dorian |