| 100% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 43% | KNOWLES | 7 | John who wrote the 1959 best seller "A Separate Peace" |
| 40% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote the sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" |
| 40% | LOCKEDINACELLO | 14 | How a guy who stole from the NY Symphony was forced to do time? |
| 40% | MILTON | 6 | John ___, English poet who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost" |
| 40% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 40% | OHARA | 5 | John who wrote "From the Terrace" |
| 39% | THEE | 4 | For whom the bell tolls, in a John Donne poem |
| 39% | KEATS | 5 | John who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| 38% | MUIR | 4 | John who wrote "My First Summer in the Sierra" |
| 38% | TINA | 4 | Fey, who wrote the movie Mean Girls |
| 38% | DRZHIVAGO | 9 | Title character who writes the "Lara" poems |
| 38% | INCODE | 6 | How does a programmer talk to the computer?: 2 wds. |
| 37% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote the line "Who is John Galt?" |
| 37% | KEATS | 5 | British poet John who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale" |
| 37% | WIL | 3 | Actor Wheaton who wrote the memoir "Just a Geek" |
| 37% | TREVOR | 6 | Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical "Born a Crime" |
| 37% | JAKES | 5 | John who wrote "The Bastard" |
| 37% | LECARRE | 7 | John, who wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 37% | OCEAN | 5 | Vuong who wrote the poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” |
| 37% | NOAH | 4 | TV host Trevor who wrote the memoir "Born a Crime" |
| 36% | GRISHAM | 7 | John who wrote "The Pelican Brief" |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 36% | WYNDHAM | 7 | Author John, who wrote The Day of the Triffids |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Who wrote the line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 36% | SOUSA | 5 | John who invented a horn similar to the tuba |
| 36% | GAY | 3 | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 36% | IRVING | 6 | John who wrote "The Cider House Rules" |
| 36% | WHEATLEY | 8 | Phillis who wrote the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| 36% | MASHA | 5 | Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" |