| 100% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 44% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 43% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 41% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 41% | AYNRAND | 7 | Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" |
| 41% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of her own "Gone Girl": 2 wds. |
| 40% | UNITARIAN | 9 | Christian who does not believe in the Trinity |
| 40% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" |
| 40% | CARRIEFISHER | 12 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of her own "Postcards From the Edge": 2 wds. |
| 39% | SALINGER | 8 | J.D. ___, famous author who wrote only one novel, "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| 39% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Mystery author who wrote the 2015 novel “X” (the twenty-fourth in a series) |
| 39% | KENNETH | 7 | With 37-Across, Scottish author who wrote "The Wind in the Willows": 2 wds. |
| 39% | CSLEWIS | 7 | British author who wrote the children's series "The Chronicles of Narnia" (3 wds.) |
| 39% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "Behold the duck / It does not cluck" |
| 39% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 39% | RODERICKTHORP | 13 | Author who wrote "Nothing Lasts Forever," the novel on which movie in 17a was based: 2 wds. |
| 39% | EOINCOLFER | 10 | Best-selling author who wrote the eight books in the "Artemis Fowl" series: 2 wds. |
| 39% | MARYSHELLEY | 11 | Author who began writing 28-Across at the age of 18: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LUIGI | 5 | Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
| 38% | LOVECRAFT | 9 | Horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" |
| 38% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" |
| 38% | ECO | 3 | Author Umberto who wrote "The Name of the Rose" |
| 38% | GOETHE | 6 | German author who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" |
| 37% | ATIDE | 5 | "...___ in the affairs of men": Shak. |
| 37% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | "Alias Grace" author who also wrote children's books, including "Up in the Tree" |
| 37% | ENGELS | 6 | Friedrich ___, German political scientist who wrote "The Condition of the Working Class in England" |
| 37% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 37% | JOYCE | 5 | Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit" |
| 37% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 37% | IDA | 3 | Author Tarbell who wrote "All in the Day's Work" |