| 100% | PARIS | 5 | Conrad's great-granddaughter who wrote "Confessions of an Heiress" |
| 44% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote, "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing" |
| 42% | STYRON | 6 | William who wrote "The Confessions of Nat Turner" |
| 42% | AESOP | 5 | Fabulist who wrote of an also-ran hare |
| 40% | CONROY | 6 | Pat who wrote "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini" |
| 40% | LUIGI | 5 | Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
| 40% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great who wrote "Days of Grace" |
| 39% | CHEYENNE | 8 | Member of an American Indian people who once lived in the Great Plains |
| 39% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great Arthur who wrote a history of African-American athletes |
| 38% | LAHTI | 5 | Actress Christine who wrote "True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age" |
| 38% | CIARDI | 6 | Poet John who wrote "Lives of X," an autobiography in verse |
| 38% | NIN | 3 | Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living" |
| 38% | VARGAS | 6 | Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio who wrote the memoir "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen" |
| 38% | VEBLEN | 6 | Social scientist Thorstein who wrote, “The possession of wealth confers honour; it is an invidious distinction” |
| 37% | LENIN | 5 | World leader who wrote, “Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations” |
| 36% | AGASSI | 6 | Sports star who wrote 2009's "Open: An Autobiography" |
| 36% | ALBEE | 5 | Edward who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" |
| 36% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. who wrote of cats |
| 36% | ELIOT | 5 | T.S. who wrote of felines |
| 36% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 36% | ADAMS | 5 | President who wrote, "Great is the guilt of unnecessary war" |
| 36% | ALBEE | 5 | Playwright Edward who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" |
| 36% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" |
| 36% | BELLOC | 6 | Hilaire who wrote "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" |
| 36% | SWIFTTHUMB | 10 | Attribute of an umpire who's quick to eject players? |
| 36% | DANE | 4 | Great ___s are an enormous breed of dog |
| 35% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 35% | ELIOT | 5 | T. S. who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| 35% | MAKETHEJEANSLIST | 16 | Write an order to replenish inventory of Levi's? |
| 35% | TRUMAN | 6 | Harry S. ___, 33rd President of the U.S. who had an unsuccessful oil and mining business |