| 100% | HARTE | 5 | Bret —, US writer whose volumes include 1870's The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches |
| 37% | EDWARD | 6 | & 9D US writer and artist whose works include 1963 volume The Gashlycrumb Tinies |
| 37% | STEVENS | 7 | Wallace —, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium |
| 35% | HARTE | 5 | "The Luck of Roaring Camp" writer |
| 35% | HARTE | 5 | "The Luck of Roaring Camp" author Bret ___ |
| 35% | BRET | 4 | "The Luck of Roaring Camp" writer Harte |
| 35% | FLECKER | 7 | James Elroy —, London-born writer whose volumes of poetry include 1913's The Golden Journey to Samarkand |
| 34% | GINSBERG | 8 | Allen —, US poet whose volumes include 1956's Howl and Other Poems |
| 34% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | Lawrence —, US poet whose volumes include 1958’s A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 33% | LOWELL | 6 | Robert —, US poet whose volumes include For the Union Dead and Lord Weary's Castle |
| 32% | PLATH | 5 | Sylvia —, US poet whose volumes include The Colossus and Ariel |
| 32% | JARRELL | 7 | Randall —, US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and Losses |
| 29% | MUNRO | 5 | Alice —, Canadian short-story writer whose volumes include Open Secrets and Runaway |
| 29% | GIRAUDOUX | 9 | Jean —, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine |
| 29% | TONYHARRISON | 12 | English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 29% | MORSE | 5 | Samuel —, US inventor and painter whose works include 1830's The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco |
| 29% | TONY | 4 | & 13D English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 28% | HARTE | 5 | "Luck of Roaring Camp" writer |
| 28% | CUMMINGS | 8 | E E —, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys |
| 28% | LARKIN | 6 | Philip —, poet whose volumes include The Less Deceived and The North Ship |
| 28% | PARR | 4 | Martin —, British photographer whose volumes include Small World and Think of England |
| 28% | CLARE | 5 | John —, English poet whose volumes include The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel |
| 28% | MITCHELL | 8 | Adrian —, poet whose volumes include All Shook Up and Heart on the Left |
| 27% | AYRES | 5 | Pam —, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced |
| 27% | OGDENNASH | 9 | US humourist whose volumes include 1931's Hard Lines |
| 27% | OGDENNASH | 9 | US humorist whose volumes include 1931's Hard Lines |
| 27% | THURBER | 7 | James —, US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| 27% | OHIO | 4 | Home of the U.S.'s largest cities whose names start with X and Z |