| 100% | TIM | 3 | O'Brien who wrote "The Things They Carried," 1990 |
| 59% | TIM | 3 | "The Things They Carried" writer O'Brien |
| 59% | TIM | 3 | "The Things They Carried" author O'Brien |
| 59% | TIM | 3 | “The Things They Carried” author O’Brien |
| 51% | NAM | 3 | The Things They Carried setting, briefly |
| 46% | VIETNAM | 7 | Setting for Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" |
| 44% | SNOOKI | 6 | TV star who wrote the novel "A Shore Thing," informally |
| 43% | URIS | 4 | Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" |
| 43% | HOMER | 5 | Who wrote "By their own follies they perished, the fools" |
| 43% | TATUM | 5 | Actress O'Neal who wrote the memoir "A Paper Life" |
| 43% | SENDAK | 6 | Maurice who wrote "Where the Wild Things Are" |
| 42% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 42% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 42% | MAURICE | 7 | Author Sendak, who wrote Where The Wild Things Are |
| 41% | MICHELLEOBAMA | 13 | Former first lady who wrote the memoirs "Becoming" and "The Light We Carry" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | PROTAGORAS | 10 | Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" |
| 40% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are" |
| 39% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" |
| 39% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote, "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing" |
| 39% | NOVAK | 5 | "The Office" actor B.J. who wrote the story collection "One More Thing" |
| 38% | IMMANUELKANT | 12 | *Philosopher who wrote "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" |
| 38% | ALDA | 4 | Actor who wrote the memoir “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” |
| 37% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote the memoir "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" |
| 37% | SPENCE | 6 | Trial lawyer who wrote "O.J.: The Last Word" |
| 37% | PLATO | 5 | Philosopher who wrote the "Republic" |
| 37% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Italian who wrote The Decameron |
| 37% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 37% | LOIS | 4 | Lowry who wrote The Giver |
| 37% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote The Fountainhead |
| 37% | EUCLID | 6 | Mathematician who wrote the "Elements" |