| 100% | SEAN | 4 | Irish playwright who wrote "The Shadow of a Gunman" |
| 54% | ODETS | 5 | Playwright who wrote the screenplay for The Sweet Smell of Success |
| 50% | SEANOCASEY | 10 | Irish playwright who wrote "Cock-a-Doodle Dandy" |
| 49% | ANNE | 4 | Rice who wrote the upcoming book "Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat" |
| 49% | EZRA | 4 | Pound who wrote "In a Station of the Metro" |
| 48% | DARIN | 5 | Strauss who wrote the 2020 novel "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story" |
| 48% | HOYLE | 5 | Edmond who wrote a treatise on the game of whist |
| 47% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |
| 47% | CHUCKBARRIS | 11 | TV program creator and host who wrote the memoir "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind": 2 wds. |
| 47% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Irish poet and playwright who wrote only one novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in his lifetime: 2 wds. |
| 47% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 47% | RODLAVER | 8 | Three-time Australian Open winner who wrote the memoir "The Education of a Tennis Player" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | YEATS | 5 | Irish poet who wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" |
| 46% | DOUBT | 5 | Beyond the shadow of a ___ |
| 46% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 45% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, playwright who wrote The Caretaker |
| 45% | ANNE | 4 | Frank, who wrote "The Diary of a Young Girl" |
| 45% | AESCHYLUS | 9 | Ancient playwright who wrote the Oresteian Trilogy |
| 45% | IONESCO | 7 | Romanian playwright who wrote The Bald Soprano |
| 45% | JONSON | 6 | English playwright who wrote The Alchemist, Ben __ |
| 45% | OSCAR | 5 | ___ Wilde, the Irish playwright who wrote "De Profundis" during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol |
| 45% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |
| 45% | IDLE | 4 | Monty Python member Eric who wrote "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography" |
| 44% | LER | 3 | God who's a personification of the sea to the ancient Irish (var.) |
| 44% | ANNE | 4 | ___ Frank who wrote "The Diary of a Young Girl" |
| 44% | BAIN | 4 | Donald who wrote a 1963 "memoir" seen in the first words of 17-, 30-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 44% | RICHARDNIXON | 12 | Former U.S. president who wrote "In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Irish novelist who wrote "The Country Girls," "House of Splendid Isolation," and "Girls" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician Leonard of the 18th century who first wrote f(x) to denote a function |
| 43% | JONIMITCHELL | 12 | "Both Sides Now" singer-songwriter who wrote "Morning Glory on the Vine," a book of poetry and drawings (2 wds.) |