| 100% | SYMONS | 6 | Arthur who wrote "The Symbolist Movement in Literature" |
| 50% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur who wrote "Off the Court" |
| 48% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 47% | GRAHAME | 7 | Kenneth, who wrote The Wind in the Willows |
| 47% | SEUSS | 5 | Doctor who wrote The Cat in the Hat |
| 46% | HELLER | 6 | Joseph who wrote the play “We Bombed in New Haven” |
| 46% | ISLA | 4 | Actress Fisher who wrote the "Marge in Charge" book series |
| 46% | ISLA | 4 | Actress Fisher who writes the "Marge in Charge" kids' books |
| 46% | BEA | 3 | Arthur who appeared on "All in the Family" |
| 46% | JEAN | 4 | Shepherd who wrote "The Ferrari in the Bedroom" |
| 46% | SEUSS | 5 | "Doctor" who wrote "The Cat in the Hat" |
| 46% | TWAIN | 5 | Who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth" |
| 45% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 45% | SAMSMITH | 8 | Singer who wrote The Writing's on the Wall in 2015 |
| 45% | LONI | 4 | Actress Anderson who wrote the memoir "My Life in High Heels" |
| 45% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur who's in the Tennis Hall of Fame |
| 45% | ITALO | 5 | Writer Calvino who wrote "The Baron in the Trees" |
| 45% | UECKER | 6 | Bob who wrote "Catcher in the Wry" |
| 45% | ALEC | 4 | Waugh who wrote "Island in the Sun" |
| 45% | GORE | 4 | Al who wrote "Earth in the Balance" |
| 45% | GAELS | 5 | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| 45% | GEORGE | 6 | Saunders who wrote Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 45% | MCKUEN | 6 | Poet/lyricist who wrote the 1974 #1 hit "Seasons in the Sun" |
| 45% | MIRANDAJAMES | 12 | Novelist who writes the Cat in the Stacks mystery series (2 wds.) |
| 45% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur who won the US Open tennis tournament in 1968 |
| 45% | PATMORE | 7 | English poet Coventry ___, who wrote "The Angel in the House" |
| 45% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | 2020 Literature Nobelist who wrote, “We look at the world once, in childhood. / The rest is memory” |
| 45% | AGEE | 4 | James who wrote "A Death in the Family" |
| 45% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer Stephen, who wrote Send in the Clowns |
| 45% | AGEE | 4 | James ___ who wrote "A Death in the Family" |