| 100% | NSCOTTMOMADAY | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 1968's "House Made of Dawn": 3 wds. |
| 58% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 2012's "The Round House": 2 wds. |
| 56% | SHERMANALEXIE | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 2007's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian": 2 wds. |
| 49% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 18-Across, 44-Across, and 2020's "The Night Watchman" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 15-Across, 29-Across, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Night Watchman" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | WILLACATHER | 11 | American novelist who wrote the Great Plains trilogy of 15-Across, "The Song of the Lark," and 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Irish novelist who wrote "The Country Girls," "House of Splendid Isolation," and "Girls" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | DONDELILLO | 10 | American novelist who wrote "Mao II," 18-Across, 25-Across, and 34-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | LEIGHBARDUGO | 12 | American novelist who wrote 17-Across, 40-Across, and the "Shadow and Bone" trilogy (2 wds.) |
| 37% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction, and wrote the poem, "The Raven": 3 wds. |
| 36% | EBWHITE | 7 | American author who wrote the children's classic "Charlotte's Web" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | JOHNLESCROART | 13 | Texas-born novelist who wrote the 2019 bestseller "The Rule of Law" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | ALICEHOFFMAN | 12 | American novelist who has written 29 novels, including "The Dovekeepers," 14-Across, and 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | German-language novelist who wrote "The Metamorphosis," most of whose work got published after his death: 2 wds. |
| 33% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | American novelist who won eight Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards in a writing career that spanned six decades (4 wds.) |
| 33% | RLSTINE | 7 | American author who wrote the children's series "Goosebumps" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," 15-Across, and 47-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | HEATHERMORRIS | 13 | New Zealand novelist who wrote "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" and its sequels, 32-Across and 52-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | BRIANJACQUES | 12 | British novelist who wrote the "Redwall" and "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series (2 wds.) |
| 33% | KURTVONNEGUT | 12 | American novelist in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame who was born in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Fantasy novelist who wrote "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book": 2 wds. |
| 32% | IRA | 3 | American novelist ___ Levin who wrote "Rosemary's Baby" |
| 32% | JOSEPHHELLER | 12 | Novelist who wrote "Catch-22" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | JOHNLECARRE | 11 | British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (3 wds.) |
| 32% | JAMESLEEBURKE | 13 | Texas-born novelist who wrote the 2019 bestseller "The New Iberia Blues" (3 wds.) |
| 32% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | Classic horror author who wrote "The Cask of Amontillado": 3 wds. |
| 32% | HPLOVECRAFT | 11 | Classic horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu": 3 wds. |
| 31% | JOHNSTEINBECK | 13 | American author of "The Grapes of Wrath" who also wrote the screenplay for "Viva Zapata!": 2 wds. |
| 31% | GKCHESTERTON | 12 | British novelist who wrote the stories that inspired the "Father Brown" TV series (3 wds.) |
| 31% | ERICAJONG | 9 | Feminist novelist who wrote Fear of Flying |