| 100% | RAES | 4 | Carson who wrote the Fire and Thorns Trilogy, a NYT best-seller, and poet Armantrout who penned "Versed", a Pulitzer winner |
| 31% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote the best seller "Between the World and Me" |
| 30% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 29% | FREY | 4 | James who wrote the best seller "A Million Little Pieces" |
| 29% | KNOWLES | 7 | John who wrote the 1959 best seller "A Separate Peace" |
| 29% | SERENAWILLIAMS | 14 | 2003 and 2013 Best Female Athlete ESPY winner who wrote the kids' book "The Adventures of Qai Qai": 2 wds. |
| 28% | SAMPRAS | 7 | Sports star who wrote the 2008 best seller "A Champion's Mind" |
| 28% | WALTWHITMAN | 11 | American poet and essayist often called the father of free verse and who wrote the poem "Song of Myself": 2 wds. |
| 28% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 28% | SECRETCODE | 10 | Who wrote a 2003 best seller about a ___? |
| 28% | BALDACCI | 8 | Best-selling author David who writes the “King and Maxwell” novels |
| 27% | HOMER | 5 | Greek poet who wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" |
| 27% | BOB | 3 | Woodward who wrote the best seller "Rage" |
| 27% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 27% | LEAR | 4 | Edward ___, poet who wrote "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" |
| 27% | ISAACS | 6 | Susan who wrote the best seller "Compromising Positions" |
| 27% | KORDA | 5 | Michael who wrote the 1975 best seller "Power!" |
| 27% | TEIGEN | 6 | Model Chrissy who wrote the best seller "Cravings" |
| 27% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table” |
| 27% | ISAACS | 6 | Susan who wrote the 1978 best seller "Compromising Positions" |
| 27% | ANTHONYDOERR | 12 | "All the Light We Cannot See" Pulitzer winner who also wrote 17-Across, 36-Across, and 2021's "Cloud Cuckoo Land" (2 wds.) |
| 27% | NORA | 4 | Author Roberts who wrote the 2016 best seller "The Obsession" |
| 27% | ANN | 3 | Patchett who wrote the 2019 best seller "The Dutch House" |
| 27% | ISADORE | 7 | Rosenfeld who wrote the best seller "Live Now, Age Later" |
| 27% | ERNEST | 6 | Cline who wrote the 2011 best seller "Ready Player One" |
| 26% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote a-a-b-a verses |
| 26% | OYD | 3 | Poet who wrote "Fortune and love favor the brave" |
| 26% | ALEC | 4 | Greven who wrote the 2008 best seller "How to Talk to Girls" |
| 26% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 26% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | American poet behind "A Witness Tree" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943: 2 wds. |