| 100% | LENDEIGHTON | 11 | British novelist who wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy" (2 wds.) |
| 70% | IANFLEMING | 10 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Loved Me" (2 wds.) |
| 64% | JOHNLECARRE | 11 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (3 wds.) |
| 58% | BRIANJACQUES | 12 | British novelist who wrote the "Redwall" and "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series (2 wds.) |
| 57% | LEECHILD | 8 | Pen name of the British novelist who writes the Jack Reacher novel series (2 wds.) |
| 56% | RUTHWARE | 8 | British novelist who wrote the bestsellers "The Woman in Cabin 10," 15-Across, and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 55% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 54% | ANNERICE | 8 | "Tasty" novelist who wrote the "Vampire Chronicles" series: 2 wds. |
| 53% | VICTORHUGO | 10 | French novelist who wrote "Les Misérables": 2 wds. |
| 53% | GKCHESTERTON | 12 | British novelist who wrote the stories that inspired the "Father Brown" TV series (3 wds.) |
| 53% | ALEXANDREDUMAS | 14 | French novelist who wrote "The Three Musketeers": 2 wds. |
| 51% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Fantasy novelist who wrote "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book": 2 wds. |
| 51% | JULESVERNE | 10 | French novelist who wrote "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea": 2 wds. |
| 51% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 2012's "The Round House": 2 wds. |
| 50% | ELOISAJAMES | 11 | Romance novelist who wrote the Desperate Duchesses series, among many others: 2 wds. |
| 50% | DEBBIEMACOMBER | 14 | Romance novelist who wrote the Blossom Street series, among many others: 2 wds. |
| 50% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | Romance novelist who wrote the Chesapeake Bay series, among many others: 2 wds. |
| 50% | JOSEPHHELLER | 12 | Novelist who wrote "Catch-22" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist who wrote the 1983 bestseller "Pet Sematary" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist who wrote "The Shining" and 37-Across (2 wds.) |
| 50% | HUGHLOFTING | 11 | Novelist who wrote 12 books featuring 53-Across (2 wds.) |
| 49% | SANDRABROWN | 11 | Texas-born novelist who wrote the 2019 bestseller "Outfox" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | RICKYGERVAIS | 12 | British star of "The Office" who wrote the "Flanimals" kid-lit series: 2 wds. |
| 48% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | German-language novelist who wrote "The Metamorphosis," most of whose work got published after his death: 2 wds. |
| 48% | SHERMANALEXIE | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 2007's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian": 2 wds. |
| 47% | BROOKESHIELDS | 13 | "Suddenly Susan" actress who wrote the memoir "There Was a Little Girl": 2 wds. |
| 47% | MIRANDAJAMES | 12 | Novelist who writes the Cat in the Stacks mystery series (2 wds.) |
| 47% | SARAHFERGUSON | 13 | Duchess of York who wrote the "Budgie the Little Helicopter" kid-lit series: 2 wds. |
| 46% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | "Vision in White" romance novelist who also writes police procedurals as J.D. Robb: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ANGIETHOMAS | 11 | Novelist who wrote the Y.A. bestsellers 17-Across and 29-Across (2 wds.) |