| 100% | GEORGEWILL | 10 | Newspaper columnist who wrote the book "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 62% | GEORGEWILL | 10 | Political commentator who wrote "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 40% | WILLSMITH | 9 | Actor who wrote the kid's book "Just the Two of Us" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ERICIDLE | 8 | Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot |
| 40% | ERIC | 4 | Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot |
| 39% | IDLE | 4 | Eric —, Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot |
| 39% | LENA | 4 | "Girls" star Dunham who wrote the book "Not That Kind of Girl" |
| 39% | ERIC | 4 | & 4D Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot |
| 39% | ERIC | 4 | & 13A Monty Python member who wrote the book of Broadway musical Spamalot |
| 38% | IMAN | 4 | Supermodel who wrote the 2005 book "The Beauty of Color" |
| 38% | ANNE | 4 | Rice who wrote the upcoming book "Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat" |
| 38% | QUESTLOVE | 9 | Front man of the Roots who wrote the cookbook "Mixtape Potluck" |
| 38% | MOZART | 6 | Composer who wrote his first concerto at the age of five |
| 38% | ENGELS | 6 | Friedrich ___, German political scientist who wrote "The Condition of the Working Class in England" |
| 37% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 37% | ERIC | 4 | Mayor Adams who wrote the plant-based-life-style book “Healthy at Last” |
| 37% | EMMA | 4 | Actress Thompson who wrote the 2014 book "The Spectacular Tale of Peter Rabbit" |
| 37% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" |
| 37% | JANE | 4 | Goodall who wrote "The Book of Hope" |
| 37% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 37% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 36% | HOWARD | 6 | John —, prison reformer who wrote 1777 book The State of Prisons in England and Wales |
| 36% | ERDOS | 5 | Mathematician who was the subject of the book "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" |
| 36% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 36% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 36% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, "No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind" |
| 36% | ROGET | 5 | Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" |
| 35% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" |
| 35% | MARYSHELLEY | 11 | Author who began writing 28-Across at the age of 18: 2 wds. |