| 100% | OKRI | 4 | Ben —, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 92% | BENOKRI | 7 | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 54% | WILBURSMITH | 11 | Author of novels The Leopard Hunts in Darkness and The Eye of the Tiger |
| 53% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 52% | HENRY | 5 | & 12D Author of novels Hunt the Slipper and Brothers in Law |
| 51% | PHILLIPS | 8 | Caryl —, author of novels The Final Passage and In the Falling Snow |
| 51% | ANITA | 5 | &25A Author of novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 51% | PROULX | 6 | Annie —, author of novels Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole |
| 51% | HAILEY | 6 | Arthur —, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers |
| 51% | GIBB | 4 | Camilla —, author of novels Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement |
| 51% | ALEC | 4 | & 19D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 51% | ALEC | 4 | & 9D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 51% | ALEC | 4 | & 22A Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 50% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 50% | KEROUAC | 7 | Jack —, author of novels The Dharma Bums and On the Road |
| 50% | LYNNE | 5 | Author of the novels The Indian in the Cupboard and The L-Shaped Room |
| 49% | GISSING | 7 | George —, author of novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 49% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 49% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 48% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 48% | LEWYCKA | 7 | Marina —, author of the novels Two Caravans and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| 48% | JONSON | 6 | Ben —, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 48% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| 47% | SELF | 4 | Will —, author of novels The Butt and Dorian |
| 47% | ROBBEGRILLET | 12 | Alain —, author of novels The Erasers and Jealousy |