| 100% | GRIMBLE | 7 | Arthur —, author of 1952 memoir A Pattern of Islands |
| 46% | MAYLE | 5 | Peter —, author of 1989 memoir A Year in Provence |
| 44% | BLYTON | 6 | Enid __; author of Five on a Treasure Island |
| 44% | PROSYATHLETE | 12 | Author of a dull sports memoir? |
| 41% | HACKETT | 7 | John Winthrop —, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger |
| 41% | STANLEE | 7 | Author of 2015's "Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir" |
| 41% | GOLDEN | 6 | Arthur __, wrote Memoirs of a Geisha |
| 41% | GEISHA | 6 | Memoirs of a __ by Arthur Golden |
| 41% | HACKETT | 7 | Sir John Winthrop —, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger |
| 41% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine |
| 41% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 41% | KAT | 3 | ___ Chow, author of 2021's "Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir" |
| 40% | KEE | 3 | Robert —, author of 1947 memoir A Crowd Is Not Company; one of the original five presenters on TV-am |
| 40% | SUSANNAKAYSEN | 13 | Author of "Girl, Interrupted," a memoir adapted into a film starring Winona Ryder (2 wds.) |
| 40% | AMYTAN | 6 | Author of "Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir" (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017) |
| 39% | CARTER | 6 | "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President" author |
| 39% | NOVEMBER | 8 | "Gone 'Til ___: A Journal of Rikers Island," 2016 memoir by Lil Wayne |
| 38% | ASHE | 4 | "A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete" author Arthur |
| 38% | MERCURYWELLS | 12 | "The Island of Dr. Moreau" author, to a chemist? |
| 38% | MUIR | 4 | Frank —, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 memoir A Kentish Lad |
| 37% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the 2020 memoir "A Promised Land" |
| 37% | HOGG | 4 | James —, Scottish author of 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
| 37% | ANDERSEN | 8 | Classic author who was the subject of a 1952 film musical |
| 37% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the memoir “Becoming” |
| 37% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the memoir "Becoming" |
| 36% | BETTYFORD | 9 | Author of the memoir "The Times of My Life" (1978) |
| 36% | MICHELLEOBAMA | 13 | Author of the memoir "Becoming" (2018) |
| 36% | LEE | 3 | Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 36% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 36% | SOLOMONNORTHUP | 14 | Author of the 1853 memoir "Twelve Years a Slave," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |