| 100% | ZADIE | 5 | Smith who wrote the 2016 bestseller "Swing Time" |
| 67% | SMITH | 5 | Zadie who wrote the 2016 novel "Swing Time" |
| 63% | NORA | 4 | Author Roberts who wrote the 2016 bestseller "The Obsession" |
| 54% | EADIE | 5 | Betty, who wrote NY Times bestseller "Embraced by the Light" |
| 49% | PATTI | 5 | Singer/songwriter Smith who wrote the memoir "Just Kids" |
| 49% | PATTI | 5 | Rock icon Smith who wrote the memoir "Just Kids" |
| 49% | NORA | 4 | Author Roberts who wrote the 2016 best seller "The Obsession" |
| 47% | CAROL | 5 | Comedian Burnett who wrote the memoir "This Time Together" |
| 47% | OBAMA | 5 | Michelle who wrote the 2018 bestseller "Becoming" |
| 46% | PARR | 4 | Todd who wrote the children's bestseller "The Thankful Book" |
| 46% | CHER | 4 | Pop icon who wrote the 1998 autobiography "The First Time" |
| 45% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist who wrote the 1983 bestseller "Pet Sematary" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | DODIE | 5 | Smith who wrote "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" |
| 44% | TAN | 3 | Amy who wrote the New York Times best seller The Backyard Bird Chronicles |
| 44% | JENNABUSHHAGER | 14 | Former First Daughter who wrote the memoir "Everything Beautiful in Its Time" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | ANGIETHOMAS | 11 | Novelist who wrote the Y.A. bestsellers 17-Across and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 43% | LANCEBASS | 9 | NSYNC member who wrote the 2007 bestseller "Out of Sync" |
| 43% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 42% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 41% | CHER | 4 | One-named singer who wrote the memoir "The First Time" |
| 41% | RUTHWARE | 8 | British novelist who wrote the bestsellers "The Woman in Cabin 10," 15-Across, and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | TEY | 3 | Josephine who wrote "The Daughter of Time" |
| 41% | BETTYFORD | 9 | First Lady who wrote the 1978 memoir "The Times of My Life": 2 wds. |
| 41% | OCEAN | 5 | Vuong who wrote the poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” |
| 40% | SWING | 5 | "___ Time," 2016 novel by Zadie Smith about two girls who tap dance |
| 40% | SANDRABROWN | 11 | Texas-born novelist who wrote the 2019 bestseller "Outfox" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | LIZ | 3 | Smith who wrote "Natural Blonde" |
| 39% | SEALE | 5 | Bobby who wrote “Seize the Time: The Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton” |
| 39% | DONALDTRUMP | 11 | US leader who was Time's 2016 Person of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 39% | JESSICABRUDER | 13 | Journalist who wrote the nonfiction bestseller 45-Across, which is subtitled "Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" (2 wds.) |