| 100% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 81% | TENNYSON | 8 | Alfred —, author of the poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist |
| 41% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 40% | TENNYSON | 8 | English poet Alfred who wrote The Lady of Shalott |
| 40% | REVENGE | 7 | The —, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores |
| 40% | KEATS | 5 | John —, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| 39% | BENOKRI | 7 | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 39% | ARNOLD | 6 | Matthew —, 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach |
| 39% | COLE | 4 | Martina —, author of novels Dangerous Lady and The Ladykiller |
| 38% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 38% | OKRI | 4 | Ben —, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 38% | NEILSIMON | 9 | Author of play and movie Barefoot in the Park |
| 37% | WILBURSMITH | 11 | Author of novels The Leopard Hunts in Darkness and The Eye of the Tiger |
| 37% | LYNNE | 5 | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room |
| 37% | PHILLIPS | 8 | Caryl —, author of novels The Final Passage and In the Falling Snow |
| 37% | GISSING | 7 | George —, author of novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 37% | BRENTON | 7 | Howard —, author of stage plays Christie in Love and The Churchill Play |
| 37% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 37% | PICO | 4 | ___ Iyer, author of "The Lady and the Monk" |
| 37% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 37% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 37% | BESTALL | 7 | Alfred —, author and illustrator, from 1935, of the Rupert Bear tales |
| 37% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Author of Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham |
| 36% | STOUT | 5 | Rex —, author of mystery novels The Broken Vase and The Hand in the Glove |
| 36% | NEIL | 4 | & 14A Author of the stage plays Barefoot in the Park and The Dinner Party |
| 36% | GIBB | 4 | Camilla —, author of novels Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement |