| 100% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 94% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 48% | JUDITHKRANTZ | 12 | Late author of the novels Princess Daisy and Scruples |
| 47% | HOBAN | 5 | Russell —, late author of the novels Riddley Walker and Kleinzeit |
| 46% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of the novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 45% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of the novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 45% | KORDA | 5 | Zoltan —, director of film dramas Cry, the Beloved Country and A Woman's Vengeance |
| 44% | PYNCHON | 7 | Thomas —, author of novels Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 44% | PATON | 5 | "Cry, the Beloved Country" author Alan |
| 44% | PATON | 5 | “Cry, the Beloved Country” author Alan |
| 44% | HOLLINGHURST | 12 | Alan —, author of novels The Sparsholt Affair and The Stranger's Child |
| 44% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 44% | ALANPATON | 9 | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country |
| 43% | ALLINGHAM | 9 | Margery —, author of detective novels Mystery Mile and The Case of the Late Pig |
| 43% | ECO | 3 | Umberto —, late author of novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 43% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 43% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 43% | BANKS | 5 | Iain —, late author of novels The Business and The Wasp Factory |
| 43% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
| 42% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 42% | ALANPATON | 9 | Author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” |
| 42% | ANDRE | 5 | Author of the novels An Act of Terror and Other Lives |
| 42% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author of the novels Angel Time, Violin and Merrick |
| 42% | DONDELILLO | 10 | Author of the novels Zero K, Libra and Underworld |
| 42% | JAMES | 5 | Author of the novels Deliverance and Alnilam |
| 41% | IRALEVIN | 8 | Author of the novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 41% | JOHNOFARRELL | 12 | Author of the novels This Is Your Life and May Contain Nuts |
| 41% | JANEAUSTEN | 10 | Author of the novels Persuasion and Mansfield Park |
| 41% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Author of the novels Finnegans Wake and Ulysses |
| 41% | GRAHAMSWIFT | 11 | Author of the novels Shuttlecock and Mothering Sunday |