| 100% | IFSTONE | 7 | Journalist who wrote "The Trial of Socrates" |
| 58% | PYLE | 4 | Journalist who wrote the 1943 book "Here Is Your War" |
| 57% | DAVIDGRANN | 10 | American journalist who wrote "Killers of the Flower Moon," "The Wager," and the works that inspired 16-Across and 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | ISABEL | 6 | Journalist Wilkerson who wrote “The Warmth of Other Suns” |
| 55% | SCHORR | 6 | Journalist who wrote "Come to Think of It," 2007 |
| 54% | KEN | 3 | Follett who wrote the 2014 novel "Edge of Eternity" |
| 54% | ASHE | 4 | Athlete who wrote the 1993 memoir “Days of Grace” |
| 54% | NIN | 3 | Anaïs who wrote the erotica collection “Delta of Venus” |
| 54% | GEENADAVIS | 10 | Actress who wrote the 2022 memoir "Dying of Politeness" |
| 54% | EULER | 5 | Mathematician who wrote the first theorem of graph theory |
| 54% | GEENA | 5 | Actress Davis who wrote the memoir "Dying of Politeness" |
| 54% | DARWISH | 7 | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| 54% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who wrote The Age of Innocence |
| 54% | ALAN | 4 | Watts who wrote The Way of Zen |
| 53% | IMAN | 4 | Supermodel who wrote the 2005 book "The Beauty of Color" |
| 53% | LANCEBASS | 9 | NSYNC member who wrote the 2007 bestseller "Out of Sync" |
| 53% | GEENA | 5 | Actress Davis who wrote the 2022 memoir "Dying of Politeness" |
| 53% | FOLLETT | 7 | Ken who wrote The Pillars of the Earth |
| 53% | POE | 3 | Who wrote of "sorrow for the lost Lenore" |
| 53% | MERCEDES | 8 | Lackey who wrote the Heralds of Valdemar series |
| 53% | CASTANEDA | 9 | Carlos who wrote The Teachings of Don Juan |
| 53% | SHIRLEY | 7 | Jackson who wrote The Haunting of Hill House |
| 53% | TERENCE | 7 | Winter who wrote The Wolf of Wall Street |
| 52% | ANN | 3 | Brashares who wrote the The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series |
| 52% | KASDAN | 6 | Lawrence who wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" |
| 52% | ODETS | 5 | Playwright who wrote the screenplay for The Sweet Smell of Success |
| 52% | DAN | 3 | American author ___ Brown who wrote the Robert Langdon series of novels |
| 52% | TED | 3 | Novelist Bell who writes the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels |
| 52% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 52% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |