| 100% | ESTES | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "Women Who Run With the Wolves" |
| 69% | ESTES | 5 | "Women Who Run With the Wolves" author |
| 55% | EOINCOLFER | 10 | Best-selling author who wrote the eight books in the "Artemis Fowl" series: 2 wds. |
| 52% | BALDACCI | 8 | Best-selling author David who writes the “King and Maxwell” novels |
| 50% | KHALED | 6 | Author Hosseini, who wrote The Kite Runner |
| 50% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author who wrote Interview with the Vampire |
| 50% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 48% | GREEN | 5 | John ___, American author and YouTuber who wrote the best-selling novel "Paper Towns" |
| 48% | NORA | 4 | Author Roberts who wrote the 2016 best seller "The Obsession" |
| 47% | KENNETH | 7 | With 37-Across, Scottish author who wrote "The Wind in the Willows": 2 wds. |
| 46% | PETERS | 6 | Author Torrey who wrote “Detransition, Baby,” in which a trans woman and a cis woman consider raising a child together with the person they've both loved (January, 2021) |
| 45% | ALCOTT | 6 | Best-selling author who served as a nurse in the Civil War |
| 44% | DOLLYPARTON | 11 | Country music superstar who wrote the novel "Run, Rose, Run " with 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 43% | JOYCE | 5 | Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit" |
| 43% | AYNRAND | 7 | Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" |
| 42% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" |
| 42% | SHEPERSISTED | 12 | Children's book written by 32-Across with the subtitle "13 American Women Who Changed the World" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | STEFAN | 6 | Fatsis who wrote the best-selling "Word Freak" |
| 42% | STEEL | 5 | Danielle who's the best-selling author alive |
| 41% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 41% | PATTERSON | 9 | James who wrote Run Rose Run with Dolly Parton |
| 41% | COMPANY | 7 | Who keeps __ with the wolf will learn to howl |
| 41% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author who wrote the novel The Godfather |
| 41% | LINCARTER | 9 | Author who wrote the Thongor fantasy series |
| 41% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 41% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote The Hobbit, J.R.R. __ |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Author who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" |
| 40% | CAITLINCLARK | 12 | Iowa Hawkeyes point guard who was honored with the 2023 ESPY Award for Best College Athlete, Women's Sports (2 wds.) |
| 40% | STACY | 5 | With 36-Across, 2013 Women's British Open winner who received the Best Female Golfer ESPY Award in 2013 |
| 39% | POE | 3 | Eerie author who wrote the first detective story |