100% | SARAPARETSKY | 12 | Mystery writer who created private investigator V.I. Warshawski (2 wds.) |
60% | ROBERTCRAIS | 11 | Mystery writer who created private detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike (2 wds.) |
59% | SARA | 4 | Writer Paretsky who created female private investigator V.I. Warshawski, protagonist in at least 20 novels |
51% | IRISJOHANSEN | 12 | Mystery writer who created forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (2 wds.) |
49% | TESSGERRITSEN | 13 | Mystery writer who created Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Maura Isles (2 wds.) |
48% | JEFFERYDEAVER | 13 | Mystery writer who created quadriplegic forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme (2 wds.) |
46% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | Mystery writer who (as J.D. Robb) created Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective Delia Peabody (2 wds.) |
44% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who created the White Rabbit and the March Hare: 2 wds. |
44% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Writer who created Peter Rabbit and Cotton-tail: 2 wds. |
43% | JULESVERNE | 10 | Writer who created Captain Nemo, traveler to the submerged city of Atlantis: 2 wds. |
43% | RICHARDADAMS | 12 | Writer who created Fiver, Hazel, and their fellow rabbits in "Watership Down": 2 wds. |
40% | CARR | 4 | Mystery writer who created Dr. Gideon Fell |
40% | ERLE | 4 | Mystery writer who created Perry and Della |
39% | RUTHRENDELL | 11 | Mystery writer who also wrote under the pen name Barbara Vine (2 wds.) |
38% | LFRANKBAUM | 10 | Writer who created Oz: 3 wds. |
38% | CSLEWIS | 7 | Writer who created Narnia: 3 wds. |
38% | LOISLOWRY | 9 | Kid-lit writer who created Gooney Bird Greene and Anastasia Krupnik (2 wds.) |
38% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Kid-lit writer who created Fudge Hatcher and Sally J. Freedman (2 wds.) |
37% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky who created V.I. Warshawski |
37% | TAMALAJONES | 11 | "Castle" actress who plays private investigator Lana in the TV series "Rebel": 2 wds. |
37% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky who created the detective V.I. Warshawski |
36% | TOMCLANCY | 9 | Writer who created the Jack Ryan series continued with the 2019 novel "Enemy Contact" by Mike Maden (2 wds.) |
36% | BROOKESHIELDS | 13 | Actress and model who created a stir when she said nothing "comes between me and my Calvins" in an ad: 2 wds. |
35% | MIKEHAMMER | 10 | Private investigator created by Mickey Spillane played by 43-Across in the 1980s and 1990s (2 wds.) |
35% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Writer who created Middle-earth: 4 wds. |
35% | SCOTTADAMS | 10 | Cartoonist who created "Dilbert": 2 wds. |
35% | HARLANCOBEN | 11 | Mystery writer who signed a five-year deal with Netflix to develop 14 of his novels as miniseries and films (2 wds.) |
35% | MORTWALKER | 10 | Cartoonist who created "Beetle Bailey": 2 wds. |
34% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Writer who created Frodo Baggins, traveler to Mount Doom in Middle-earth: 4 wds. |
34% | SARA | 4 | Novelist Paretsky who writes the V.I. Warshawski mystery series |