| 100% | ERMA | 4 | Humorist Bombeck who wrote "Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession" |
| 84% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession" |
| 43% | OLDEST | 6 | Erma Bombeck's "Motherhood: The Second ___ Profession" |
| 43% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" |
| 42% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" |
| 40% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American who wrote The Old Man and the Sea |
| 40% | ZANE | 4 | Grey who wrote about the Old West |
| 40% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 38% | SEDARIS | 7 | Humorist David who wrote the essay collections "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "Happy-Go-Lucky" |
| 37% | ROSTEN | 6 | Humorist Leo who wrote "The Joys of Yiddish," 1968 |
| 36% | AMIS | 4 | British author who wrote "The Old Devils" |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 36% | YEATS | 5 | Poet William Butler ___, who wrote "The Second Coming" |
| 35% | YEATS | 5 | Irish poet William Butler ___ who wrote "The Second Coming" |
| 35% | YEATS | 5 | Irish poet W. B. ___, who wrote "The Second Coming" |
| 35% | WILLIAMBUTLER | 13 | ___ Yeats, Irish poet who wrote the poem "The Second Coming" and helped found the Abbey Theatre: 2 wds. |
| 35% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" |
| 35% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End" |
| 34% | SIMONEDE | 8 | ___ Beauvoir, French feminist writer who wrote "The Second Sex": 2 wds. |
| 33% | EVE | 3 | The second person in the Old Testament |
| 33% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 33% | PLATO | 5 | Philosopher who wrote the "Republic" |
| 33% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Italian who wrote The Decameron |
| 33% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 33% | LOIS | 4 | Lowry who wrote The Giver |
| 33% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote The Fountainhead |
| 33% | EUCLID | 6 | Mathematician who wrote the "Elements" |
| 32% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 32% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "Housework, if you do it right, will kill you" |
| 32% | TWAIN | 5 | Who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth" |