| 100% | OLSON | 5 | Charles who wrote "Call Me Ishmael" |
| 54% | READE | 5 | Charles who wrote "Peg Woffington" |
| 52% | THURBER | 7 | Cartoonist who wrote the caption "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?" |
| 52% | GOREN | 5 | Charles who wrote "Winning Bridge Made Easy" |
| 51% | READE | 5 | Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" |
| 48% | READE | 5 | Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" |
| 48% | ROSEN | 5 | Pianist and music scholar Charles who wrote “The Classical Style” |
| 47% | OCONNER | 7 | Patricia who wrote "Woe Is I" |
| 46% | JOHNCLEESE | 10 | Briton who wrote "A Fish Called Wanda" |
| 46% | MICHAELA | 8 | __ Coel, who wrote I May Destroy You |
| 46% | REEVE | 5 | Christopher who wrote "Still Me" |
| 46% | LOVECRAFT | 9 | Horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" |
| 46% | TANEHISI | 8 | Coates who wrote "Between the World and Me" |
| 46% | DESCARTES | 9 | Frenchman who wrote "I think, therefore I am" |
| 46% | ANGELOU | 7 | Maya ___, poet who wrote "And Still I Rise" |
| 45% | CECELIA | 7 | Ahern who wrote PS, I Love You |
| 45% | ERTE | 4 | Designer who wrote "Things I Remember" |
| 45% | CAEN | 4 | Columnist who wrote "Don't Call It Frisco," 1953 |
| 45% | MCCAIN | 6 | Senator who wrote "Why Courage Matters" and "Hard Call" |
| 45% | KAHN | 4 | Gus who wrote "Dream a Little Dream of Me" |
| 45% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote Between the World and Me |
| 45% | HEIDI | 5 | Schreck who wrote "What the Constitution Means to Me" |
| 45% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco who wrote a book of poetry called "Verses" |
| 45% | ILENE | 5 | Beckerman who wrote "Love, Loss and What I Wore" |
| 45% | EMMA | 4 | Lazarus who wrote "Give me your tired . . ." |
| 44% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 44% | EUCLID | 6 | Who wrote to Ptolemy I "There is no royal road to geometry" |
| 44% | PIKE | 4 | American author Christopher ___ who wrote the "Remember Me" book series |
| 44% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Poet who wrote the memoir "Mom & Me & Mom" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | STARR | 5 | Beatle who wrote and sang "Don't Pass Me By" |