| 100% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" |
| 76% | ERMA | 4 | "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" humorist Bombeck |
| 50% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 38% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 37% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession" |
| 37% | NERO | 4 | Roman emperor who said before dying "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 37% | NERO | 4 | Roman emperor who said before dying, "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 36% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who wrote, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in" |
| 36% | ERMA | 4 | Humorist Bombeck who wrote "Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession" |
| 35% | BERRA | 5 | Ballplayer who wrote "The Yogi Book: I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said" |
| 35% | JENNABUSHHAGER | 14 | Former First Daughter who wrote the memoir "Everything Beautiful in Its Time" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Novelist who wrote "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and the other three frequently banned books in this puzzle (2 wds.) |
| 35% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" |
| 35% | POE | 3 | Who wrote of "sorrow for the lost Lenore" |
| 35% | TWAIN | 5 | Who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth" |
| 34% | UECKER | 6 | Bob who wrote "Catcher in the Wry" |
| 34% | ALEC | 4 | Waugh who wrote "Island in the Sun" |
| 34% | GORE | 4 | Al who wrote "Earth in the Balance" |
| 34% | GAELS | 5 | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| 34% | GEORGE | 6 | Saunders who wrote Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 34% | WEINER | 6 | Jennifer who wrote In Her Shoes, Mrs Everything |
| 34% | GRAHAME | 7 | Kenneth, who wrote The Wind in the Willows |
| 34% | SEUSS | 5 | Doctor who wrote The Cat in the Hat |
| 34% | JEAN | 4 | Shepherd who wrote "The Ferrari in the Bedroom" |
| 34% | SEUSS | 5 | "Doctor" who wrote "The Cat in the Hat" |
| 34% | AGEE | 4 | James who wrote "A Death in the Family" |
| 34% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer Stephen, who wrote Send in the Clowns |
| 34% | AGEE | 4 | James ___ who wrote "A Death in the Family" |
| 34% | KAHN | 4 | Roger who wrote "A Season in the Sun" |
| 34% | GREGTATE | 8 | Cultural critic who wrote "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" |