| 100% | JUNE | 4 | Jordan who wrote, "I will not walk politely on the pavements anymore" |
| 43% | CHALK | 5 | I am a teacher's best friend. I help them write on the blackboard. Who am I? |
| 42% | ALDA | 4 | Alan who wrote the book "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 41% | ALAN | 4 | Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 39% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 39% | WINTERSON | 9 | Jeanette who wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| 39% | WINTERSON | 9 | Jeanette who wrote "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" |
| 39% | CARLHIAASEN | 11 | "Squeeze Me" author who wrote the novel that 49-Across is based on (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "A Walk on the Wild Side" |
| 38% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote the sonnet "Death Be Not Proud" |
| 37% | MARA | 4 | Actress Wilson who wrote the memoir "Where Am I Now?" |
| 37% | TYSON | 5 | Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am" |
| 37% | TYSON | 5 | Actress Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am" |
| 37% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 37% | ZOLA | 4 | Émile who wrote "Truth is on the march" |
| 37% | CHELSEAHANDLER | 14 | Comedian who wrote the memoir “Life Will Be the Death of Me” |
| 36% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author who wrote the novel 15-Across was based on: 2 wds. |
| 36% | SARDOU | 6 | Victorien who wrote “La Tosca,” on which the Puccini opera is based |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 36% | BROTHER | 7 | I am the male sibling who may not share the TV remote. Who am I? |
| 36% | SHOLEM | 6 | Aleichem who wrote the stories on which Fiddler on the Roof is based |
| 36% | MARAWILSON | 10 | "Matilda" child actress who wrote the memoir "Where Am I Now?": 2 wds. |
| 36% | TEVYE | 5 | Fiddler on the Roof character who sings "If I Were a Rich Man" |
| 36% | ERIKA | 5 | Sánchez who wrote "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" |
| 36% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 36% | BEE | 3 | Comedian Samantha who wrote the memoir "I Know I Am, But What Are You?" |
| 35% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |
| 35% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 35% | MITSKI | 6 | Singer who wrote the lyric "Give me one good movie kiss and I'll be alright" |
| 35% | ZOLA | 4 | French author who wrote, “Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it” |