| 100% | MAO | 3 | Author of a once-popular book of quotations |
| 63% | BARTLETTS | 9 | Popular book of quotations |
| 54% | FELIXSALTEN | 11 | Author of 1923 children's book Bambi, a Life in the Woods |
| 54% | JEREMIAH | 8 | Hebrew prophet and author of a Book of the Bible |
| 54% | JARED | 5 | ___ Diamond, author of popular science books |
| 54% | MOTT | 4 | "Hell of a Book" author Jason |
| 53% | DRSEUSS | 7 | US writer, author of popular children books |
| 53% | NAN | 3 | ___ Britton, Warren Harding's mistress, author of a 1927 tell-all book |
| 52% | HALEY | 5 | Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" |
| 51% | SEARS | 5 | Company that once offered "the Thrift Book of a Nation" |
| 50% | BABAR | 5 | "Histoire de ___," first in a popular series of children's books |
| 50% | BRYSON | 6 | Bill —, author of books A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Walk in the Woods |
| 50% | LEACH | 5 | Bernard —, Hong Kong-born author of 1940 work A Potter's Book |
| 50% | WAINWRIGHT | 10 | Alfred —, author of book series A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells |
| 50% | FLAP | 4 | Part of a book cover that might show the author's photo |
| 49% | EER | 3 | Suffix with "musket" to mean one of three in a popular book title |
| 49% | STEPHENCOLBERT | 14 | Author of a satirical book whose title consists of five U.S. state abbreviations (and is hidden in this puzzle) |
| 48% | LEAR | 4 | "A Book of Nonsense" author, 1846 |
| 48% | LEAR | 4 | "A Book of Nonsense" author Edward |
| 48% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of Amazon's top book of 2018 |
| 48% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for "Hell of a Book": 2 wds. |
| 47% | NONAME | 6 | Rapper and activist with a book club dedicated to authors of color and abolitionist texts |
| 47% | OATES | 5 | "A Book of American Martyrs" author Joyce Carol ___ |
| 47% | KEBLE | 5 | John —, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of book of poems The Christian Year |
| 47% | NOAH | 4 | The most popular male baby name of 2014, or a man in the Book of Genesis |
| 47% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | Author of A Moveable Feast |
| 46% | FLAVIA | 6 | ___ Bujor, "The Prophecy of the Stones" author who published her first book when she was a teen |
| 46% | BAUM | 4 | Author of the original Oz books |
| 46% | BUZZWORD | 8 | A suddenly popular unit of language |
| 46% | LEXICON | 7 | A dictionary or book of words |