| 100% | LENO | 4 | Author of "Leading With My Chin" |
| 87% | LENO | 4 | Leading with My Chin author |
| 77% | JAYLENO | 7 | "Leading With My Chin" author |
| 77% | LENO | 4 | "Leading With My Chin" author |
| 74% | LENO | 4 | Subject of the bio Leading with My Chin |
| 62% | LENO | 4 | "Leading With My Chin" memoirist |
| 62% | LENO | 4 | "Leading With My Chin" autobiographer |
| 61% | LENO | 4 | "Leading with My Chin" memoirist Jay |
| 61% | JAY | 3 | "Leading with My Chin" memoirist Leno |
| 59% | LENO | 4 | TV host who wrote "Leading With My Chin" |
| 59% | LENO | 4 | Longtime host who wrote "Leading With My Chin" |
| 54% | JAYLENO | 7 | Former late-night TV host who co-wrote the book “Leading with My Chin” |
| 49% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author of Interview with the Vampire |
| 49% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author of "Interview With the Vampire" |
| 48% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Israeli author of My Michael |
| 47% | GOREN | 5 | Author of "Bridge Is My Game" |
| 47% | GEORGEJACKSON | 13 | Author of "Soledad Brother" and "Blood in My Eye" |
| 47% | CAPEK | 5 | Author of sci-fi's "War With the Newts" |
| 46% | PICOULT | 7 | Jodi, author of My Sister's Keeper |
| 46% | BETTYFORD | 9 | Author of the memoir "The Times of My Life" (1978) |
| 46% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 46% | EMFORSTER | 9 | Author of Howards End and A Room With A View |
| 46% | MISTYCOPELAND | 13 | Author of "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy" |
| 46% | ABBA | 4 | With 45-Down, author of "My People" |
| 45% | WILLACATHER | 11 | US author of novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia |
| 45% | KEMAL | 5 | Yasar —, Turkish author of 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk |
| 45% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson ___, author of "The Man With the Golden Arm" |
| 45% | ANAIS | 5 | With 26-Across, "Delta of Venus" author |
| 44% | ARIANA | 6 | With 32-Across, lead singer of "Problem" |