| 100% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey, writer of The Canterbury Tales |
| 77% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey __, author of the Canterbury Tales |
| 70% | CHAUCER | 7 | Geoffrey —, author of The Canterbury Tales buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey |
| 65% | CHAUCER | 7 | Author of the Canterbury Tales |
| 59% | MILLER | 6 | Canterbury Tale teller of the second story |
| 57% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Writer of the children's story, "The Tale of Tom Kitten": 2 wds. |
| 57% | THETABARD | 9 | Inn in Southwark, London, mentioned in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 55% | OZEKI | 5 | Ruth, writer of A Tale For The Time Being |
| 54% | CHAUCER | 7 | Author of "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 54% | REEVE | 5 | Teller of the third tale in "The Canterbury Tales" |
| 54% | MERCHANT | 8 | Teller of a Canterbury Tale on the blinded January |
| 51% | ALLANPOE | 8 | Edgar __, horror writer of The Tell-Tale Heart |
| 51% | PRIORESS | 8 | The Canterbury Tales character |
| 51% | MAUPIN | 6 | "Tales of the City" writer |
| 50% | FITZGERALD | 10 | "Tales of the Jazz Age" writer |
| 50% | LENIN | 5 | Writer of the "April Theses" |
| 50% | TACITUS | 7 | Writer of the ethnography "Germania" |
| 50% | QUILLPEN | 8 | Writer of the Magna Carta |
| 49% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | Writer of The Merchant of Venice |
| 49% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Writer of the 1918 play "Exiles" |
| 49% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Writer of the graphic novel "Watchmen" |
| 49% | AGASSI | 6 | Writer of the 2009 autobiography "Open" |
| 48% | WHARTON | 7 | Writer of The Age of Innocence, Edith |
| 48% | GOGOL | 5 | Writer of the short story "The Overcoat" |
| 48% | LIVY | 4 | Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita" |
| 48% | OVID | 4 | Writer of the 644-line poem "Ibis" |
| 48% | STRAUSS | 7 | Writer of the opera Der Rosenkavalier, Richard __ |
| 48% | LINDGREN | 8 | Writer of the Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid __ |
| 48% | DAPHNE | 6 | Writer of The Loving Spirit, du Maurier |
| 48% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Writer of the autobiography "Freedom in Exile" |