| 100% | JOYCE | 5 | Novelist James ___ (author of "Ulysses") |
| 80% | JOYCE | 5 | James —, author of novels Finnegans Wake and Ulysses |
| 79% | JOYCE | 5 | James —, author of the novels Finnegans Wake and Ulysses |
| 66% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of James and the Giant Peach |
| 65% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Author of the novels Finnegans Wake and Ulysses |
| 65% | ELLROY | 6 | James __; author of LA Confidential |
| 64% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of Matilda and James and the Giant Peach |
| 64% | FLEMING | 7 | Noted author of James Bond novels: Ian __ |
| 61% | DEAVER | 6 | Jeffery —, author of 2011 James Bond novel Carte Blanche |
| 61% | PATTERSON | 9 | James ___, author of "Private" and "NYPD Red" |
| 60% | CLAVELL | 7 | James —, author of novels Shogun and Tai-Pan |
| 60% | HERBERT | 7 | James —, author of novels '48, Lair and Shrine |
| 60% | HERRIOT | 7 | James __; pen name of vet author Alf Wight |
| 59% | CLAVELL | 7 | James —, author of the novels Shogun and Tai-Pan |
| 59% | ELLROY | 6 | James —, author of 2009 novel Blood's a Rover |
| 58% | HENRY | 5 | "The Turn of the Screw" author James |
| 58% | KELMAN | 6 | James —, author of novels A Disaffection and Kieron Smith, Boy |
| 57% | JAMES | 5 | With 67-Across, author of "Ulysses" |
| 57% | IAN | 3 | Author of "James Bond" novels, ___ Fleming |
| 56% | AGEE | 4 | James —, author of 1957 autobiographical novel A Death in the Family |
| 56% | PATTERSON | 9 | James, crime author of the Alex Cross series |
| 56% | AMIS | 4 | Kingsley __, novelist, author of Lucky Jim |
| 56% | EDEL | 4 | "The Life of Henry James" author |
| 54% | KEROUAC | 7 | Novelist Jack whom Time once described as “a kind of literary James Dean” |
| 54% | FIFTY | 5 | "___ Shades of Grey," romance novel by British author E. L. James |
| 53% | JOYCE | 5 | Author James who wrote "Ulysses" |
| 53% | BALDWIN | 7 | James —, author of novels The Fire Next Time and If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 53% | AGEE | 4 | Surname of James, author of A Death in the Family |
| 52% | DAHL | 4 | Roald ___, author of "James and the Giant Peach" |
| 52% | AGEE | 4 | Novelist James |