| 100% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 89% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of the stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 62% | DON | 3 | & 21A US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak |
| 58% | BENTRAVERS | 10 | Author of stage plays Thark and The Bed Before Yesterday |
| 57% | MAMET | 5 | David —, author of stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow |
| 57% | ALAN | 4 | Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 55% | SNOOWILSON | 10 | Author of stage plays The Grass Widow and The Glad Hand |
| 55% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 55% | ALAN | 4 | & 14D Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 55% | GENET | 5 | Jean —, author of stage plays The Balcony and The Maids |
| 55% | MCPHERSON | 9 | Conor —, author of stage plays The Weir and Port Authority |
| 54% | DURRENMATT | 10 | Friedrich —, author of stage plays Romulus the Great and The Visit |
| 54% | SHERIDAN | 8 | R B —, author of stage plays The Rivals and The Critic |
| 54% | BARNES | 6 | Peter —, author of stage plays Red Noses and The Ruling Class |
| 54% | GRAY | 4 | Simon —, author of stage plays The Common Pursuit and Cell Mates |
| 54% | ORCZY | 5 | Baroness Emma —, author of stage play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| 54% | MERCER | 6 | David —, author of stage plays After Haggerty and Flint |
| 54% | WESKER | 6 | Arnold —, author of stage plays Roots and The Kitchen |
| 54% | BRENTON | 7 | Howard —, author of stage plays Christie in Love and The Churchill Play |
| 54% | IBSEN | 5 | Henrik —, author of stage plays Hedda Gabler and The League of Youth |
| 54% | ARDEN | 5 | John —, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey |
| 54% | OSBORNE | 7 | John —, author of stage plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer |
| 53% | SCHNITZLER | 10 | Arthur —, author of stage plays Reigen and The Green Cockatoo |
| 53% | GORKY | 5 | Maxim —, author of stage plays The Lower Depths and Children of the Sun |
| 53% | WEBSTER | 7 | John —, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi |
| 53% | ORTON | 5 | Joe —, author of stage plays What the Butler Saw and Entertaining Mr Sloane |