| 100% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 90% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 49% | GRISHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren |
| 49% | STUART | 6 | Author of novels Flesh House and Close to the Bone |
| 48% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 48% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 48% | WOOLF | 5 | Virginia —, author of novels Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse |
| 47% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
| 47% | HAWKE | 5 | Ethan —, US actor; author of novels Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State |
| 46% | WYNDHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| 46% | MORTIMER | 8 | John —, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| 46% | LEATHER | 7 | Stephen —, author of the novels Dead Men and Hot Blood |
| 45% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 45% | POLIDORI | 8 | John —, physician to Lord Byron and author of the novel The Vampyre |
| 45% | GALT | 4 | John —, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish |
| 44% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 44% | LOOS | 4 | Anita —, author of the novels No Mother to Guide Her and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 44% | RECTOR | 6 | John —, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone |
| 44% | CLARKE | 6 | Arthur C —, author of science fiction novels The Sands of Mars and Prelude to Space |
| 44% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 43% | SELF | 4 | Will —, author of novels The Butt and Dorian |
| 43% | ROBBEGRILLET | 12 | Alain —, author of novels The Erasers and Jealousy |
| 42% | JAKEARNOTT | 10 | Author of novels The House of Rumour and The Fatal Tree |
| 42% | IRALEVIN | 8 | Author of novels The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives |
| 42% | ROBBINS | 7 | Harold —, author of novels The Carpetbaggers and The Betsy |
| 42% | COOKSON | 7 | Catherine —, author of novels The Gillyvors and The Invitation |