| 100% | STEEL | 5 | Danielle who's the best-selling author alive |
| 58% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 55% | ESTES | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "Women Who Run With the Wolves" |
| 54% | ALCOTT | 6 | Best-selling author who served as a nurse in the Civil War |
| 50% | BALDACCI | 8 | Best-selling author David who writes the “King and Maxwell” novels |
| 50% | LECAR | 5 | Best-selling author who once worked for Britain's MI6 |
| 49% | SUE | 3 | Mystery author Grafton who's best known for the "alphabet series" |
| 49% | JMBARRIE | 8 | Best-selling children's author who became a baronet |
| 47% | DAHL | 4 | Author of the best-selling children's book "Matilda" |
| 46% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Best-selling author who invented multiple languages |
| 46% | TOWNSEND | 8 | Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" |
| 44% | EMILEZOLA | 9 | Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937 |
| 44% | PETERROGET | 10 | Best-selling author who used an awful lot of commas |
| 44% | NORA | 4 | Author Roberts who wrote the 2016 best seller "The Obsession" |
| 43% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 43% | STEFAN | 6 | Fatsis who wrote the best-selling "Word Freak" |
| 43% | SEUSS | 5 | Author of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you" |
| 43% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who was a neighbor of Twain in Hartford |
| 42% | CARMECHANIC | 11 | One who's good under the hood |
| 42% | HARRIETBEECHERSTOWE | 19 | Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852) |
| 42% | DANIELLE | 8 | __ Steel, best-selling fiction author of The Gift |
| 42% | QUEENOFDENIAL | 13 | Woman who's the very best at saying no? |
| 42% | ALISTAIRCOOK | 12 | PBS host who's good in the kitchen? |
| 41% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" |
| 41% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author of the best-selling book series in history |
| 40% | RAMI | 4 | Malek who's the most recent Oscar winner for Best Actor |
| 40% | MILNE | 5 | Author Alan Alexander ___, who inspired Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" |
| 40% | FRANK | 5 | Sinatra, one of the best-selling American artists who had the nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes" |
| 40% | FAYE | 4 | Dunaway who won the Best Actress Oscar for 1976's "Network" |
| 40% | NEAL | 4 | Patricia who won the Best Actress Oscar for 1963's "Hud" |