| 100% | GORKY | 5 | Maxim —, author of stage plays The Lower Depths and Children of the Sun |
| 51% | SNOOWILSON | 10 | Author of stage plays The Grass Widow and The Glad Hand |
| 51% | GRAY | 4 | Simon —, author of stage plays The Common Pursuit and Cell Mates |
| 50% | WEBSTER | 7 | John —, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi |
| 50% | DON | 3 | & 21A US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak |
| 49% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 49% | GENET | 5 | Jean —, author of stage plays The Balcony and The Maids |
| 49% | ALAN | 4 | Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 49% | MCPHERSON | 9 | Conor —, author of stage plays The Weir and Port Authority |
| 49% | DURRENMATT | 10 | Friedrich —, author of stage plays Romulus the Great and The Visit |
| 49% | SHERIDAN | 8 | R B —, author of stage plays The Rivals and The Critic |
| 48% | BRENTON | 7 | Howard —, author of stage plays Christie in Love and The Churchill Play |
| 48% | IBSEN | 5 | Henrik —, author of stage plays Hedda Gabler and The League of Youth |
| 48% | ARDEN | 5 | John —, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey |
| 48% | BENTRAVERS | 10 | Author of stage plays Thark and The Bed Before Yesterday |
| 48% | DORFMAN | 7 | Ariel —, Argentina-born author of stage plays Purgatorio and Death and the Maiden |
| 48% | JONSON | 6 | Ben —, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 48% | ALAN | 4 | & 14D Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 48% | WESKER | 6 | Arnold —, author of stage plays Roots and The Kitchen |
| 47% | SCHNITZLER | 10 | Arthur —, author of stage plays Reigen and The Green Cockatoo |
| 47% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 47% | PINERO | 6 | Arthur Wing —, author of stage plays The Gay Lord Quex and The Second Mrs Tanqueray |
| 47% | KLEIST | 6 | Heinrich von —, author of stage plays Penthesilea and The Broken Pitcher |
| 47% | TRAVERS | 7 | Ben —, author of stage plays Thark and The Bed Before Yesterday |
| 47% | BARNES | 6 | Peter —, author of stage plays Red Noses and The Ruling Class |
| 47% | ORCZY | 5 | Baroness Emma —, author of stage play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel |