| 100% | YANN | 4 | First name of Life of Pi author Martel |
| 69% | YANN | 4 | Life of Pi author Martel |
| 60% | YANN | 4 | "Life of Pi" author __ Martel |
| 59% | YANN | 4 | "Life of Pi" author ___ Martel |
| 59% | YANN | 4 | "Life of Pi" author Martel |
| 55% | ANG | 3 | "Life of Pi" director's first name |
| 55% | MARTEL | 6 | Author of Life of Pi, Yann __ |
| 54% | STEPHEN | 7 | First name of US horror movies author |
| 53% | VIRGINIA | 8 | First name of To the Lighthouse author Woolf |
| 52% | LOUISA | 6 | First name of Little Women author |
| 51% | ZORA | 4 | First name of US author Neale Hurston |
| 51% | CHARLES | 7 | First name of authors Kingsley and Dickens |
| 50% | AGATHA | 6 | First name of a crime and mystery author |
| 50% | DAN | 3 | First name of "The Da Vinci Code" author |
| 50% | YANN | 4 | This Martel wrote Life of Pi |
| 50% | FLANNERY | 8 | First name of Wise Blood author O'Connor |
| 50% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 50% | SYLVIA | 6 | First name of Plath, author of The Bell Jar |
| 50% | HONORE | 6 | First name of the author of “La Comédie Humaine” |
| 50% | BENJAMIN | 8 | First name of Baby and Child Care author Spock |
| 50% | ROALD | 5 | First name of the author that Patricia Neal married |
| 50% | EMILYJANE | 9 | Two first names of Wuthering Heights author |
| 50% | SAMUEL | 6 | Real first name of author Mark Twain |
| 49% | TONI | 4 | First name of the most-selected author in Oprah's Book Club |
| 49% | EDNA | 4 | First name of Mrs. Garrett on "The Facts of Life" |
| 49% | HARPER | 6 | First name of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 49% | SOLOMON | 7 | First name of the author of “Twelve Years a Slave” |
| 49% | ELIE | 4 | First name of the author of A Journey Into Faith |
| 49% | BEV | 3 | Abbreviation for the first name of author Cleary |
| 49% | BILBO | 5 | First name of a fantasy character who lives in Bag End |