| 100% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "Appointment in Samarra" |
| 65% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "My First Summer in the Sierra" |
| 64% | OSBORNE | 7 | Playwright John who wrote "Look Back in Anger" |
| 62% | CIARDI | 6 | Poet John who wrote "Lives of X," an autobiography in verse |
| 60% | OSBORNE | 7 | Playwright who wrote Look Back in Anger, John __ |
| 59% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 54% | HERSEY | 6 | John who wrote "Hiroshima" |
| 54% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "Butterfield 8" |
| 54% | JAKES | 5 | John who wrote "The Bastard" |
| 54% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "Pal Joey" |
| 54% | TESH | 4 | John who wrote "Roundball Rock" |
| 53% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "Ten North Frederick" |
| 53% | LECARRE | 7 | John who wrote "A Perfect Spy" |
| 53% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "From the Terrace" |
| 53% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "Our National Parks" |
| 53% | GRISHAM | 7 | John who wrote "The Pelican Brief" |
| 53% | ELTON | 5 | John who writes with Bernie Taupin |
| 52% | GAY | 3 | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 52% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The Cider House Rules" |
| 51% | LOCKE | 5 | John who wrote "What worries you, masters you" |
| 51% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote "No Man Is an Island" |
| 51% | LOCKE | 5 | John who wrote "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins" |
| 51% | LOCKE | 5 | John who wrote "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" |
| 51% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The World According to Garp" |
| 51% | FOWLES | 6 | John who wrote "The French Lieutenant's Woman" |
| 51% | ELTON | 5 | John who wrote music for "The Lion King" |
| 51% | KEATS | 5 | John who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| 50% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote the sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" |
| 49% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 49% | KNOWLES | 7 | John who wrote the 1959 best seller "A Separate Peace" |