| 100% | DOWD | 4 | Columnist Maureen who wrote "The Year of Voting Dangerously" |
| 49% | RING | 4 | Lardner, Jr. who wrote "Woman of the Year" |
| 48% | DIDION | 6 | Joan who wrote "The Year of Magical Thinking" |
| 45% | GEORGEWILL | 10 | Newspaper columnist who wrote the book "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 45% | DIDION | 6 | Joan __ wrote The Year of Magical Thinking |
| 41% | KEN | 3 | Follett who wrote the 2014 novel "Edge of Eternity" |
| 41% | ASHE | 4 | Athlete who wrote the 1993 memoir “Days of Grace” |
| 41% | NIN | 3 | Anaïs who wrote the erotica collection “Delta of Venus” |
| 41% | GEENADAVIS | 10 | Actress who wrote the 2022 memoir "Dying of Politeness" |
| 41% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician who wrote the first theorem of graph theory |
| 41% | GEENA | 5 | Actress Davis who wrote the memoir "Dying of Politeness" |
| 41% | DARWISH | 7 | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| 41% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who wrote The Age of Innocence |
| 41% | ALAN | 4 | Watts who wrote The Way of Zen |
| 41% | IMAN | 4 | Supermodel who wrote the 2005 book "The Beauty of Color" |
| 41% | LANCEBASS | 9 | NSYNC member who wrote the 2007 bestseller "Out of Sync" |
| 41% | GEENA | 5 | Actress Davis who wrote the 2022 memoir "Dying of Politeness" |
| 41% | FOLLETT | 7 | Ken who wrote The Pillars of the Earth |
| 41% | POE | 3 | Who wrote of "sorrow for the lost Lenore" |
| 41% | MERCEDES | 8 | Lackey who wrote the Heralds of Valdemar series |
| 41% | CASTANEDA | 9 | Carlos who wrote The Teachings of Don Juan |
| 41% | SHIRLEY | 7 | Jackson who wrote The Haunting of Hill House |
| 41% | TERENCE | 7 | Winter who wrote The Wolf of Wall Street |
| 40% | ANN | 3 | Brashares who wrote the The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series |
| 40% | KASDAN | 6 | Lawrence who wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" |
| 40% | ODETS | 5 | Playwright who wrote the screenplay for The Sweet Smell of Success |
| 40% | DAN | 3 | American author ___ Brown who wrote the Robert Langdon series of novels |
| 40% | TED | 3 | Novelist Bell who writes the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels |
| 40% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 40% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |