| 100% | CAEN | 4 | Columnist who wrote "Don't Call It Frisco," 1953 |
| 41% | WOODYALLEN | 10 | Who wrote "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens" |
| 38% | CAMUS | 5 | Novelist who wrote L'Etranger, as it's called in its original language |
| 37% | KERR | 4 | Jean who wrote "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" |
| 37% | CAEN | 4 | Columnist who wrote "Baghdad by the Bay" |
| 36% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "I don't mind eels / Except as meals" |
| 35% | HELOISE | 7 | Popular newspaper columnist who writes for Good Housekeeping |
| 35% | UNLESS | 6 | "Don't call ___ it's an emergency" |
| 35% | AUTHOR | 6 | Person who wrote it |
| 34% | LORDBYRON | 9 | English poet who wrote Don Juan and Irish Avatar |
| 34% | ANON | 4 | "We don't know who wrote this" abbreviation |
| 34% | HEINE | 5 | Poet who wrote "Don't send a poet to London" |
| 33% | MIKEWHITE | 9 | TV writer who wrote "Your power is your independence; don't give up your power" |
| 33% | PEARSON | 7 | 1930's-60's columnist who wrote "Washington Merry-Go-Round" |
| 33% | HEINE | 5 | German poet who wrote "Don't send a poet to London" |
| 33% | SYKES | 5 | Eric —, comedian-writer who authored 2005 volume of biography If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will |
| 33% | ERIC | 4 | & 8A Comedian-writer who authored 2005 volume of biography If I Don't Write It, Nobody Else Will |
| 33% | RILEY | 5 | Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" |
| 32% | SWEARJAR | 8 | It's for those who don't give a darn |
| 32% | CASTANEDA | 9 | Carlos who wrote The Teachings of Don Juan |
| 32% | LOVECRAFT | 9 | Horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" |
| 32% | MACLEAN | 7 | Norman who wrote "A River Runs Through It" |
| 32% | GEORGEWILL | 10 | Newspaper columnist who wrote the book "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 32% | MCCAIN | 6 | Senator who wrote "Why Courage Matters" and "Hard Call" |
| 32% | SCHORR | 6 | Journalist who wrote "Come to Think of It," 2007 |
| 32% | ABBIE | 5 | Hoffman who wrote "Revolution for the Hell of It" |
| 32% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco who wrote a book of poetry called "Verses" |
| 32% | DELILLO | 7 | Don who wrote White Noise and Underworld |