| 100% | AMIS | 4 | Kingsley who wrote "Jake's Thing" |
| 60% | AMIS | 4 | Kingsley who wrote "Lucky Jim" |
| 55% | AMIS | 4 | "Jake's Thing" writer Kingsley |
| 53% | ANNE | 4 | Poet Spencer who wrote “White Things” |
| 52% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote, "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing" |
| 51% | SENDAK | 6 | Maurice who wrote "Where the Wild Things Are" |
| 50% | TIM | 3 | O'Brien who wrote "The Things They Carried," 1990 |
| 50% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 50% | MAURICE | 7 | Author Sendak, who wrote Where The Wild Things Are |
| 49% | SNOOKI | 6 | TV star who wrote the novel "A Shore Thing," informally |
| 48% | PROTAGORAS | 10 | Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" |
| 47% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 46% | NOVAK | 5 | "The Office" actor B.J. who wrote the story collection "One More Thing" |
| 45% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are" |
| 45% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote "At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman" |
| 44% | CHINUA | 6 | Achebe who wrote "Things Fall Apart" |
| 44% | ERTE | 4 | Designer who wrote "Things I Remember" |
| 44% | ACHEBE | 6 | Chinua who wrote "Things Fall Apart" |
| 44% | BANKSY | 6 | Anonymous graffiti artist who wrote, “A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with” |
| 43% | IMMANUELKANT | 12 | *Philosopher who wrote "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" |
| 43% | CAPOTE | 6 | Truman who wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" |
| 43% | OATES | 5 | Novelist who wrote "The Gravedigger's Daughter" |
| 43% | GAY | 3 | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| 43% | BENJAMIN | 8 | Franklin who wrote "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
| 43% | BIERCE | 6 | Ambrose who wrote "The Devil's Dictionary" |
| 43% | EUDORA | 6 | Welty who wrote "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 43% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End" |
| 43% | JONG | 4 | Erica who wrote "Any Woman's Blues" |
| 43% | ANITA | 5 | Shreve who wrote "The Pilot's Wife" |
| 43% | AMBROSE | 7 | Bierce who wrote The Devil's Dictionary |