| 100% | KESEY | 5 | Ken who wrote ''. . . Cuckoo's Nest'' |
| 89% | KESEY | 5 | Ken who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| 62% | KEN | 3 | Kesey who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| 53% | KESEY | 5 | Ken who wrote "Sometimes a Great Notion" |
| 52% | FOLLETT | 7 | Ken who wrote The Pillars of the Earth |
| 50% | KESEY | 5 | "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken |
| 50% | KESEY | 5 | "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" novelist Ken |
| 41% | LOUISEFLETCHER | 14 | "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" actress whose last name means "a person who makes arrows": 2 wds. |
| 40% | FLEW | 4 | Ken Kesey's "One ___ Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| 40% | FLEW | 4 | "One ___ Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Ken Kesey novel) |
| 40% | CAPOTE | 6 | Truman who wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" |
| 40% | OATES | 5 | Novelist who wrote "The Gravedigger's Daughter" |
| 40% | GAY | 3 | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 40% | BENJAMIN | 8 | Franklin who wrote "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
| 40% | BIERCE | 6 | Ambrose who wrote "The Devil's Dictionary" |
| 40% | EUDORA | 6 | Welty who wrote "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 40% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End" |
| 40% | JONG | 4 | Erica who wrote "Any Woman's Blues" |
| 40% | ANITA | 5 | Shreve who wrote "The Pilot's Wife" |
| 40% | AMBROSE | 7 | Bierce who wrote The Devil's Dictionary |
| 40% | NIVEN | 5 | Larry who wrote sci-fi's "Ringworld" |
| 40% | EUDORA | 6 | Welty who wrote “The Optimist’s Daughter” |
| 40% | ATWOOD | 6 | Margaret who wrote "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| 40% | TOBIAS | 6 | Wolff who wrote "This Boy's Life" |
| 40% | IRA | 3 | Levin who wrote "Rosemary's Baby" |
| 40% | TINA | 4 | Howe who wrote "Pride's Crossing" |
| 40% | LEVIN | 5 | Ira who wrote "Rosemary's Baby" |
| 40% | ERICA | 5 | Jong who wrote "Sappho's Leap" |
| 40% | NYRO | 4 | Laura who wrote "Eli's Comin'" |
| 40% | ROTH | 4 | Philip who wrote "Portnoy's Complaint" |