| 100% | LORDE | 5 | Audre ___, American feminist writer who wrote "Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches" |
| 48% | FRIEDAN | 7 | Betty ___, American feminist writer who wrote "The Feminine Mystique" |
| 48% | CHARLOTTE | 9 | ___ Perkins Gilman, American feminist writer who wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
| 38% | CARTER | 6 | Angela ___, English feminist writer who wrote "The Bloody Chamber" |
| 37% | SIMONEDE | 8 | ___ Beauvoir, French feminist writer who wrote "The Second Sex": 2 wds. |
| 36% | MARY | 4 | ___ Wollstonecraft, English feminist writer who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" |
| 36% | MARY | 4 | I wrote "Frankenstein" and shared my name with my mother who was a writer and a feminist philosopher |
| 35% | AFTERHENRY | 10 | American writer Joan Didion's 1992 book of essays written after the death of her friend and editor Robbins: 2 wds. |
| 35% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction, and wrote the poem, "The Raven": 3 wds. |
| 34% | AMALRIK | 7 | Andrei ___, writer who wrote the essay "Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?" |
| 34% | ROXANE | 6 | US author Gay, who wrote Hunger and Bad Feminist |
| 33% | EMERSON | 7 | American writer of essays Nature and Self-Reliance |
| 33% | AUDRE | 5 | Lorde who wrote "Sister Outsider" |
| 32% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American who wrote The Old Man and the Sea |
| 31% | LORDE | 5 | "Sister Outsider" writer Audre |
| 30% | SEDARIS | 7 | Humorist David who wrote the essay collections "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "Happy-Go-Lucky" |
| 30% | AMY | 3 | ___ Schumer, American comedian who also wrote and starred in the film "Trainwreck" |
| 30% | MINHAJ | 6 | American comedian and writer Hasan ___ who has a comedy special on Netflix titled "Homecoming King" |
| 30% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is famous for his work "The Pit and the Pendulum": 3 wds. |
| 29% | LORDE | 5 | Feminist writer Audre |
| 29% | EDGARGUEST | 10 | American poet who wrote “Only a Dad” and “It Couldn’t Be Done” |
| 29% | ANNALIST | 8 | Writer who writes about the year's events |
| 29% | NEIL | 4 | Gaiman who wrote "American Gods" and "Coraline" |
| 29% | ALICEHOFFMAN | 12 | American novelist who has written 29 novels, including "The Dovekeepers," 14-Across, and 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 29% | DONDELILLO | 10 | American novelist who wrote "Mao II," 18-Across, 25-Across, and 34-Across (2 wds.) |
| 29% | MULANEY | 7 | John ___, American stand-up comedian and actor who was a writer for "Saturday Night Live" |
| 28% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American writer Ernest, who won the Nobel in 1954 and whose debut novel was "The Sun Also Rises" |
| 28% | AESOP | 5 | Greek writer who wrote about talking animals |
| 28% | LEIGHBARDUGO | 12 | American novelist who wrote 17-Across, 40-Across, and the "Shadow and Bone" trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 28% | GAR | 3 | ___ Anthony Haywood, writer of crime and mystery fiction who also writes under the name Ray Shannon |