| 100% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "From the Terrace" |
| 74% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 65% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "My First Summer in the Sierra" |
| 65% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote the sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" |
| 64% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 64% | KNOWLES | 7 | John who wrote the 1959 best seller "A Separate Peace" |
| 61% | ARNETT | 6 | Peter who wrote "Live From the Battlefield" |
| 61% | LAURA | 5 | Bush who wrote "Spoken From the Heart" |
| 61% | JAKES | 5 | John who wrote "The Bastard" |
| 60% | GRISHAM | 7 | John who wrote "The Pelican Brief" |
| 60% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote the line "Who is John Galt?" |
| 60% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 60% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| 59% | GAY | 3 | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 59% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The Cider House Rules" |
| 59% | BUNYAN | 6 | John who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress" |
| 59% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The World According to Garp" |
| 59% | FOWLES | 6 | John who wrote "The French Lieutenant's Woman" |
| 59% | ELTON | 5 | John who wrote music for "The Lion King" |
| 58% | CATO | 4 | Who wrote "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise" |
| 58% | WYNDHAM | 7 | Author John, who wrote The Day of the Triffids |
| 57% | CENA | 4 | John who announced that he would retire from wrestling at the end of 2025 |
| 57% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 57% | WHEATLEY | 8 | Phillis who wrote the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| 57% | MACADAM | 7 | John from Australia, after whom the macadamia nut was named |
| 56% | LAURABUSH | 9 | First Lady who wrote the 2010 memoir "Spoken From the Heart": 2 wds. |
| 56% | LAURABUSH | 9 | Former first lady who wrote the memoir "Spoken from the Heart" (2 wds.) |
| 56% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” |
| 56% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" |
| 56% | ROSALYNNCARTER | 14 | First Lady who wrote the 1984 memoir "First Lady From Plains": 2 wds. |