| 100% | WYNDHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| 61% | WYNDHAM | 7 | Author John, who wrote The Day of the Triffids |
| 58% | GRISHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren |
| 57% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 57% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 57% | MORTIMER | 8 | John —, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| 57% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 56% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 55% | GALT | 4 | John —, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish |
| 54% | RECTOR | 6 | John —, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone |
| 54% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 54% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 53% | CASE | 4 | John —, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn Hougan |
| 53% | ISHIGURO | 8 | Kazuo —, author of novels The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans |
| 53% | POLIDORI | 8 | John —, physician to Lord Byron and author of the novel The Vampyre |
| 53% | ACKROYD | 7 | Peter —, author of novels Chatterton and The Lambs of London |
| 53% | THOMASMANN | 10 | Author of novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |
| 52% | PYNCHON | 7 | Thomas —, author of novels Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 52% | TREMAIN | 7 | Rose —, author of novels Restoration and The Colour |
| 51% | MANN | 4 | Thomas —, author of novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |
| 51% | SHELDON | 7 | Sidney —, author of novels Bloodline and The Naked Face |
| 51% | MORAVIA | 7 | Alberto —, author of novels Contempt and The Indifferent Ones |
| 51% | HOROWITZ | 8 | Anthony —, author of novels Moriarty and The Killing Joke |
| 51% | BALLARD | 7 | J G —, author of novels Crash and The Drowned World |
| 51% | BENNETT | 7 | Arnold —, author of novels Clayhanger and The Grand Babylon Hotel |
| 50% | STENDHAL | 8 | Pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, French author of novels Armance and The Charterhouse of Parma |
| 50% | CRICHTON | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Jurassic Park and Eaters of the Dead |
| 50% | SUELIMB | 7 | Author of novels Enlightenment and Up the Garden Path |
| 50% | BRUCECHATWIN | 12 | Author of novels Utz and On the Black Hill |