100% | AYNRAND | 7 | Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" |
47% | ISHIGURO | 8 | Author Kazuo who wrote “Klara and the Sun,” set in a dystopian future in which children are genetically engineered for academic excellence (March, 2021) |
43% | SAEED | 5 | Poet Jones who wrote the memoir "How We Fight for Our Lives" |
42% | TONICADEBAMBARA | 15 | Author who wrote, “The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality,” in “The Salt Eaters” |
41% | JASONREYNOLDS | 13 | Author who has written "Ghost," "Patina," and other novels for kids in the middle school years: 2 wds. |
41% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
41% | NERUDA | 6 | Pablo ___, author of "Canto General" who wrote in green ink as he considered it the color of hope |
40% | PATTILABELLE | 12 | "New Attitude" singer who wrote the cookbook "Recipes for the Good Life": 2 wds. |
39% | DANA | 4 | Author Spiotta who wrote “Wayward,” about a woman who flees her suburban family life in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election (July, 2021) |
39% | LAILAALI | 8 | Retired boxer who wrote the cookbook "Food for Life" |
39% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Mystery author who wrote the 2015 novel “X” (the twenty-fourth in a series) |
39% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
38% | THEHUNGERGAMES | 14 | Dystopian trilogy written by Suzanne Collins in voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen who lives in the post-apocalyptic future: 3 wds. |
38% | BRYANCRANSTON | 13 | "Breaking Bad" actor who won the 2017 Audie Award for Narration by the Author for his memoir "A Life in Parts" (2 wds.) |
38% | CARTLAND | 8 | English author Barbara, who wrote "The Wicked Marquis", and is referenced in the Guinness World Records for most novels published in a year |
38% | EOINCOLFER | 10 | Best-selling author who wrote the eight books in the "Artemis Fowl" series: 2 wds. |
38% | BENKINGSLEY | 11 | Actor whose birthday it is today who won an Academy Award for playing Gandhi in the titular film and was knighted in 2002: 2 wds. |
37% | IDA | 3 | Author Tarbell who wrote "All in the Day's Work" |
37% | SERENASLAM | 10 | Tennis feat named for the athlete who achieved it in 2003 and 2015 |
37% | ABBIE | 5 | Hoffman who wrote "Revolution for the Hell of It" |
37% | MILER | 5 | One who's in it for the long run |
37% | LIFER | 5 | One who's in it for the long haul |
37% | MARATHONER | 10 | Person who's in it for the long run? |
37% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |
37% | IVANKA | 6 | The Trump who wrote "The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life" |
37% | SALINGER | 8 | J.D. ___, famous author who wrote only one novel, "The Catcher in the Rye" |
37% | KENNETH | 7 | With 37-Across, Scottish author who wrote "The Wind in the Willows": 2 wds. |
37% | RLSTINE | 7 | Author referred to as "Stephen King of children's literature" who wrote the first book of the Goosebumps series in 1992 |
36% | ERIC | 4 | ___ Clapton, singer-songwriter who wrote the song "Believe in Life" |
36% | RODERICKTHORP | 13 | Author who wrote "Nothing Lasts Forever," the novel on which movie in 17a was based: 2 wds. |