| 100% | HORNUNG | 7 | E W —, author of 1899 short story collection The Amateur Cracksman |
| 54% | JACOBS | 6 | W W —, English author of 1902 short story collection The Lady of the Barge |
| 50% | DANRHODES | 9 | Author of 2001 short story collection Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love |
| 45% | KARENRUSSELL | 12 | Author of the short-story collection "Orange World and Other Stories": 2 wds. |
| 41% | NIN | 3 | Author of the story collection "Little Birds" |
| 41% | BRYANWASHINGTON | 15 | Author of the 2019 short-story collection “Lot” and the 2020 novel “Memorial” |
| 41% | CARVER | 6 | Raymond —, author of 1983 short story collection Cathedral |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Author of the short story "Loss of Breath" |
| 40% | CHIANG | 6 | Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" |
| 40% | ANDERSON | 8 | Sherwood —, author of 1919 short story collection Winesburg, Ohio |
| 40% | ELLISON | 7 | Harlan —, author of 1988 short story collection Angry Candy |
| 40% | OLIVERONIONS | 12 | Author of ghost story collections Widdershins and The Painted Face |
| 39% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon —, author of the short story collections More Than Somewhat, Furthermore and Take It Easy |
| 39% | DAUDET | 6 | Alphonse —, author of 1869 short story collection Lettres de Mon Moulin |
| 38% | ORR | 3 | Author of the short story on which All About Eve was based, Mary ___ |
| 38% | LEVI | 4 | Primo —, author of 1975 volume of short stories The Periodic Table |
| 38% | MASON | 5 | A E W —, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| 38% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 36% | ARTHURCCLARKE | 13 | Author of "The Sentinel," the short story on which 42-Across is based (3 wds.) |
| 36% | ASHENDEN | 8 | 1928 collection of stories by W Somerset Maugham subtitled The British Agent |
| 36% | OHENRY | 6 | Pen name of William Sidney Porter, author of short story collections Roads of Destiny and The Four Million |
| 35% | IROBOT | 6 | Short story collection introducing the Three Laws |
| 35% | EAPOE | 5 | Author of Gothic short stories, in short |
| 34% | KAA | 3 | Python in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book |
| 34% | KATECHOPIN | 10 | US author of 1899 novel The Awakening |
| 34% | FORESTER | 8 | Author of the Hornblower stories |
| 34% | BALOO | 5 | Brown bear in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book |
| 34% | BAGHEERA | 8 | Black panther in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book |
| 34% | ASET | 4 | Frank O'Connor short story collection "___ of Variations" |
| 34% | SAKI | 4 | Pen name of H H Munro, author of 1914 short story collection Beasts and Super-Beasts |