| 100% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 83% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 57% | POLIDORI | 8 | John —, physician to Lord Byron and author of the novel The Vampyre |
| 52% | RENDELL | 7 | Ruth —, author of the novels The Veiled One and Talking to Strange Men |
| 50% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 50% | CASE | 4 | John —, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn Hougan |
| 49% | RECTOR | 6 | John —, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone |
| 49% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 48% | LEATHER | 7 | Stephen —, author of the novels Dead Men and Hot Blood |
| 47% | GRISHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren |
| 46% | LOOS | 4 | Anita —, author of the novels No Mother to Guide Her and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 46% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 46% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 46% | WYNDHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| 46% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 46% | MORTIMER | 8 | John —, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| 45% | STUART | 6 | Author of novels Flesh House and Close to the Bone |
| 45% | FAYWELDON | 9 | Author of the novels The Bulgari Connection and Big Women |
| 44% | WOOLF | 5 | Virginia —, author of novels Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse |
| 44% | KUREISHI | 8 | Hanif —, author of the novels The Black Album and Intimacy |
| 44% | GALT | 4 | John —, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish |
| 44% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
| 44% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of the novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 44% | THEROUX | 7 | Paul —, author of the novels The Mosquito Coast and Doctor Slaughter |
| 43% | HAWKE | 5 | Ethan —, US actor; author of novels Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State |
| 43% | KEROUAC | 7 | Jack —, author of the novels The Dharma Bums and On the Road |
| 43% | SEBOLD | 6 | Alice —, author of the novels The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones |
| 43% | TARTT | 5 | Donna —, author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend |
| 43% | ANSTEY | 6 | F —, English author of the novels The Tinted Venus and Vice Versa |