| 100% | PAPAHEMINGWAY | 13 | Nobel author, informally |
| 61% | ANON | 4 | Unidentified author, informally |
| 57% | NADINE | 6 | Nobel-winning author Gordimer |
| 57% | GIDE | 4 | Nobel-winning author André |
| 57% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Nobel-winning Canadian author |
| 57% | ALICE | 5 | Nobel-winning author munro |
| 55% | COETZEE | 7 | Nobel-winning author of "Disgrace" |
| 55% | OLGA | 4 | Nobel-winning “Flights” author Tokarczuk |
| 55% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning author Wiesel |
| 55% | TRU | 3 | "In Cold Blood" author, informally |
| 54% | TONI | 4 | Nobel- and Pulitzer-winning author Morrison |
| 54% | CAMUS | 5 | Nobel-winning author of “The Fall” |
| 52% | ECON | 4 | Nobel Prize category for Paul Krugman, informally |
| 52% | TONI | 4 | Nobel-winning author ___ Morrison who wrote "Beloved" |
| 52% | BIOS | 4 | "About the author" pieces, informally |
| 51% | THEEU | 5 | 2012 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, informally |
| 51% | ELIE | 4 | "Night" author and Nobel winner, ___ Wiesel |
| 51% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 50% | BORISPASTERNAK | 14 | Nobel Prize-winning author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 50% | STEINBECK | 9 | Nobel Prize-winning author of Of Mice and Men |
| 49% | PASTERNAK | 9 | Russian author Boris __ declined the Nobel prize |
| 49% | CAMUS | 5 | Albert ___, Nobel-winning author of "The Stranger" |
| 49% | SHAW | 4 | George Bernard ___, Nobel Prize-winning "Pygmalion" author |
| 48% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 46% | GIDE | 4 | Andre —, French author; 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| 46% | TONI | 4 | & 4D US author; 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| 46% | FANFIC | 6 | Spinoff stories written by an author's readers, informally |
| 45% | HESSE | 5 | "Siddhartha" author Hermann ___ who won a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 45% | HESSE | 5 | German-Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel in Literature |
| 43% | KNUTHAMSUN | 10 | *Norwegian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 |