| 100% | ISAACHAYES | 10 | Soul man who co-wrote “Soul Man” |
| 66% | ISAAC | 5 | Hayes who wrote "Soul Man" |
| 63% | ALI | 3 | Boxer who co-wrote "The Soul of a Butterfly" |
| 62% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 61% | ALI | 3 | Boxer who co-wrote the memoir "The Soul of a Butterfly" |
| 56% | SHAW | 4 | Irwin who wrote "Rich Man, Poor Man" |
| 56% | IRWIN | 5 | Shaw who wrote "Rich Man, Poor Man" |
| 56% | CREWE | 5 | Bob, who co-wrote "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man" and "Rag Doll" |
| 56% | ELLISON | 7 | Ralph who wrote "Invisible Man" |
| 56% | RALPH | 5 | Ellison who wrote "Invisible Man" |
| 55% | STAN | 4 | ___ Lee, comic writer who co-created Iron Man |
| 54% | GAYE | 4 | Soul singer who did the soundtrack for Trouble Man |
| 54% | GREENE | 6 | Graham who wrote "Our Man in Havana" |
| 53% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote "No Man Is an Island" |
| 53% | EDNABEST | 8 | "The Man Who Knew Too Much" co-star |
| 52% | REID | 4 | MSNBC anchor who wrote "The Man Who Sold America" |
| 52% | RUDD | 4 | Paul who co-starred in "I Love You, Man" |
| 52% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "The Man With the Golden Arm" |
| 52% | DONNE | 5 | Poet John who wrote "No man is an island" |
| 51% | BERGER | 6 | Thomas who wrote "Little Big Man" |
| 51% | NEWLEY | 6 | Anthony who wrote "The Candy Man" |
| 51% | GREENE | 6 | Graham who wrote "The Third Man" |
| 51% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who wrote ''Mr. Tambourine Man'' |
| 50% | CATO | 4 | Who wrote "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise" |
| 50% | SLOAN | 5 | Novelist Wilson who wrote "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" |
| 49% | LEVITT | 6 | Steven who co-wrote "Freakonomics" |
| 49% | SEANCONNERY | 11 | 50-Across's co-star in "The Man Who Would Be King" |
| 49% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 49% | MCCARTHY | 8 | Cormac who wrote "No Country for Old Men" |
| 48% | LEE | 3 | Stan who co-created Spider-Man |