| 100% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 83% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 46% | GARDNER | 7 | Erle Stanley —, author of 1937 novel The D. A. Calls It Murder and others featuring Doug Selby |
| 42% | WILLIAM | 7 | ___ Faulkner, author of "The Sound and the Fury" who once wrote the entire outline to a novel on his office walls |
| 42% | SOPHIEHANNAH | 12 | Author of the novels A Game for All the Family and Little Face |
| 42% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 42% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 41% | RENDELL | 7 | Ruth —, author of the novels The Veiled One and Talking to Strange Men |
| 41% | LOOS | 4 | Anita —, author of the novels No Mother to Guide Her and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 40% | STUART | 6 | Author of novels Flesh House and Close to the Bone |
| 40% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 40% | ALTHER | 6 | Lisa —, author of novels Kinflicks and Original Sins |
| 40% | DONLEAVY | 8 | J P —, author of novels A Fairy Tale of New York and The Onion Eaters |
| 40% | SIANJAMES | 9 | Author of novels A Small Country and Return to Hendre Ddu |
| 39% | WOOLF | 5 | Virginia —, author of novels Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse |
| 39% | MURDOCH | 7 | Iris —, author of novels The Bell and A Word Child |
| 39% | HARDY | 5 | Thomas —, author of novels A Laodicean and Jude the Obscure |
| 39% | LEWYCKA | 7 | Marina —, author of the novels Two Caravans and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| 39% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 39% | FRANKMUIR | 9 | Author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 39% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 39% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
| 38% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
| 38% | SNOW | 4 | C P —, author of the novels Homecomings and Time of Hope |
| 38% | JAMES | 5 | Author of the novels Deliverance and Alnilam |
| 38% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 38% | BARSTOW | 7 | Stan —, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 38% | STAN | 4 | & 21A Author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |