| 100% | GAY | 3 | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 64% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote the sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" |
| 63% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 63% | KNOWLES | 7 | John who wrote the 1959 best seller "A Separate Peace" |
| 63% | FOWLES | 6 | John who wrote "The French Lieutenant's Woman" |
| 63% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "From the Terrace" |
| 60% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "My First Summer in the Sierra" |
| 59% | LEROUX | 6 | Author Gaston, who wrote The Phantom of the Opera |
| 59% | WEILL | 5 | Kurt who wrote the music for "The Threepenny Opera" |
| 59% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote the line "Who is John Galt?" |
| 58% | JAKES | 5 | John who wrote "The Bastard" |
| 58% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 58% | LEROUX | 6 | Gaston who wrote "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| 58% | GRISHAM | 7 | John who wrote "The Pelican Brief" |
| 57% | LEROUX | 6 | Gaston ___, Frenchman who wrote "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| 57% | WYNDHAM | 7 | Author John, who wrote The Day of the Triffids |
| 57% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The Cider House Rules" |
| 56% | PEPUSCH | 7 | Johann Christoph —, composer who arranged the music for 1728’s The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay |
| 56% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The World According to Garp" |
| 54% | ELTON | 5 | John who wrote music for "The Lion King" |
| 54% | GRISHAM | 7 | Novelist John who wrote "The Firm" and "The Client" |
| 53% | SARDOU | 6 | Victorien who wrote “La Tosca,” on which the Puccini opera is based |
| 53% | BRECHT | 6 | Bertolt who wrote "The Threepenny Opera" |
| 53% | EGAN | 4 | Tim who writes the Dodsworth children's books |
| 53% | AMBROSE | 7 | Bierce who wrote The Devil's Dictionary |
| 52% | GAY | 3 | John —, author of 1728 stage work The Beggar's Opera |
| 52% | TODD | 4 | "BoJack Horseman" character who writes the rock opera "Newtopia Rising, Book I: The Search for a New Utopia" |
| 52% | DAVA | 4 | Sobel who wrote the Pulitzer-nominated "Galileo's Daughter" |
| 51% | MALRAUX | 7 | André who wrote The Human Condition aka Man's Fate |
| 51% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright Henrik, who wrote The Doll's House |