| 100% | SARAH | 5 | American spoken word poet ___ Kay who authored "No Matter the Wreckage" |
| 38% | MAYA | 4 | American poet ___ Angelou who authored "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
| 37% | FROST | 5 | American poet Robert ___ who authored "The Road Not Taken" and won the Pulitzer four times |
| 35% | BATES | 5 | Katharine Lee —, poet who authored the words to anthem America the Beautiful |
| 34% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | American author who penned The Godfather |
| 34% | PAINE | 5 | Thomas who authored influential pamphlets during the American Revolution |
| 34% | NEAL | 4 | Author Stephenson who coined the word "metaverse" |
| 34% | TSELIOT | 7 | American-British poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 33% | SHELDON | 7 | American author Sidney ___ who wrote the "Midnight" series |
| 33% | POE | 3 | American author who created the detective fiction genre |
| 33% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "In the Vanities / No one wears panities" |
| 33% | TED | 3 | American author ___ Bell who wrote the Alexander Hawke novel series |
| 33% | PIKE | 4 | American author Christopher ___ who wrote the "Remember Me" book series |
| 32% | TSELIOT | 7 | British American poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 32% | ARI | 3 | American poet ___ Banias who authored "Anybody" |
| 32% | DAN | 3 | American author ___ Brown who wrote the Robert Langdon series of novels |
| 32% | RLSTINE | 7 | American author who wrote the children's series "Goosebumps" (3 wds.) |
| 32% | POUND | 5 | Ezra —, American poet; author of Ripostes and The Cantos |
| 32% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ATANYPRICE | 10 | No matter the cost |
| 31% | COMEWHATMAY | 11 | No matter the consequences |
| 31% | ANYTIME | 7 | No matter the hour |
| 31% | EBWHITE | 7 | American author who wrote the children's classic "Charlotte's Web" (3 wds.) |
| 31% | VERSE | 5 | Spoken word poet's paragraph |
| 31% | MAYA | 4 | American poet Angelou who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
| 30% | JIMMYCONNORS | 12 | American tennis player who held the world No. 1 spot for 268 weeks: 2 wds. |
| 30% | DANBROWN | 8 | American author who wrote the bestselling thriller series including "The Da Vinci Code": 2 wds. |
| 30% | BILLYBATSON | 11 | The boy who speaks the magic word to become a superhero named Shazam: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SEUSS | 5 | Author of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you" |
| 30% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |