| 100% | ABSE | 4 | Dannie —, author of poetry volumes Running Late and Ask the Bloody Horse |
| 45% | RIORDAN | 7 | Maurice —, author of poetry volumes Floods and A Word from the Loki |
| 42% | STEVIE | 6 | Author of the poetry volumes Harold's Leap and Not Waving But Drowning |
| 37% | JOHNMONTAGUE | 12 | Author of volumes Drunken Sailor and Smashing the Piano; Ireland Chair of Poetry from 1998-2001 |
| 35% | AUDEN | 5 | W H —, author of poetry collections Homage to Clio and The Shield of Achilles |
| 35% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 34% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of the novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 34% | JUDITHKRANTZ | 12 | Late author of the novels Princess Daisy and Scruples |
| 34% | DEIGHTON | 8 | Len —, author of the novels The IPCRESS File and Horse Under Water |
| 34% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 34% | WINN | 4 | Godfrey —, author of volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory |
| 34% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 34% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of the novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 33% | PATON | 5 | Alan —, author of the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 33% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Author of the book that Times readers voted the best of the last hundred and twenty-five years |
| 32% | HAMPTON | 7 | Christopher —, author of the stage plays Total Eclipse and When Did You Last See My Mother? |
| 32% | PAUL | 4 | & 24A Royal Australian Air Force pilot in WWII; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape |
| 31% | SCOTT | 5 | With 18-Across, author of "Presumed Innocent" and "The Last Trial" |
| 30% | HOBAN | 5 | Russell —, late author of the novels Riddley Walker and Kleinzeit |
| 30% | KEBLE | 5 | John —, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of 1827 volume of poetry The Christian Year |
| 30% | BANKS | 5 | Iain —, late author of novels The Business and The Wasp Factory |
| 30% | JOHNUPDIKE | 10 | "Rabbit, Run" author who received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in 2007: 2 wds. |
| 30% | HOMER | 5 | Author of the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad" |
| 30% | READE | 5 | Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth" |
| 30% | AESOP | 5 | Author of "The Tortoise and the Hare" |
| 30% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of James and the Giant Peach |
| 30% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 30% | JAMES | 5 | Author of the novels Deliverance and Alnilam |
| 30% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | Author of The Old Man and the Sea |