| 100% | BLAKE | 5 | Quentin —, illustrator and author whose books include 1999’s Fantastic Daisy Artichoke |
| 45% | ANGER | 5 | Kenneth —, US filmaker and author whose books include 1959's Hollywood Babylon |
| 39% | BRIGGS | 6 | Raymond —, author and illustrator whose books include When the Wind Blows and The Snowman |
| 34% | ANSEL | 5 | US photographer whose books include 1944's Born Free and Equal |
| 33% | KEN | 3 | Jennings whose books include "Maphead" and "Brainiac" |
| 32% | JACQUELINE | 10 | Children's author whose novels include Love Lessons and Candyfloss |
| 32% | PHILIPROTH | 10 | Author whose works "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Sabbath's Theater" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 32% | THELWELL | 8 | Norman —, illustrator and cartoonist whose works include 1991's The Effluent Society |
| 32% | COHN | 4 | Nik —, rock music journalist whose books include Need and King Death |
| 31% | DAVEEGGERS | 10 | Author whose children's book "The Eyes and the Impossible" won the Newbery Medal in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 31% | MIKE | 4 | & 5D Television impressionist whose books include 1974 autobiography And This Is Me |
| 31% | HAWKING | 7 | Stephen —, British theoretical physicist whose books include The Nature of Space and Time |
| 30% | ROS | 3 | Children’s-book author and illustrator Asquith |
| 29% | SACKS | 5 | Oliver —, late British neurologist whose books include 1985's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales |
| 28% | TOMMANGOLD | 10 | Broadcaster, journalist and author whose credits include BBC TV series Midweek and Panorama |
| 28% | BERNARDMALAMUD | 14 | Author whose works "The Magic Barrel" and "The Fixer" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 28% | OFLAHERTY | 9 | Liam —, author whose novels include Famine and The Informer |
| 28% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 27% | TUSKEGEE | 8 | School whose staff has included George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington |
| 27% | MCNEILE | 7 | H C —, author whose novels, including Mufti and Ronald Standish, were published under the name Sapper |
| 27% | MICHAELAGOADE | 13 | Writer and illustrator whose "Berry Song" was a 2023 Caldecott Honor Book (2 wds.) |
| 26% | RUSSELL | 7 | Astrologer and television presenter whose books include The Real Counties of Britain |
| 26% | BLUME | 5 | Judy —, US author whose novels include Wifey and Summer Sisters |
| 26% | KATE | 4 | & 11D Children's book illustrator whose works include 1879's Under the Window |
| 26% | JODIPICOULT | 11 | Bestselling author of more than 30 books, including "My Sister's Keeper," 19-Across, and 34-Across (2 wds.) |
| 26% | NIMES | 5 | City in S France whose Roman remains include an amphitheatre and the Pont du Gard aqueduct |
| 25% | LAING | 5 | R D —, Scottish psychiatrist whose books include 1960’s The Divided Self |
| 25% | BROOK | 5 | Peter —, British theatre director whose books include 1968's The Empty Space |