| 100% | SPENDER | 7 | Stephen —, poet who authored 1951 autobiography World Within World |
| 45% | GRAVES | 6 | Robert —, poet who authored 1929 autobiography Goodbye to All That |
| 34% | SPENSER | 7 | Edmund —, poet who authored 1594 work Epithalamion |
| 33% | STARK | 5 | Freya —, traveller who authored 1951 autobiographical work Beyond Euphrates |
| 33% | EMERSON | 7 | Ralph Waldo —, US poet who authored 1836 essay Nature |
| 33% | AIKEN | 5 | Conrad —, US poet who authored 1927 novel Blue Voyage |
| 32% | BOULT | 5 | Adrian —, English conductor who authored 1973 autobiography My Own Trumpet |
| 32% | OCONNOR | 7 | Des —, entertainer who authored 2001 autobiography Bananas Can't Fly! |
| 32% | BETJEMAN | 8 | John —, British poet who authored 1966 collection High and Low |
| 32% | LORCA | 5 | Federico Garcia —, Spanish poet who authored 1934 stage play Yerma |
| 32% | LORCA | 5 | Federico Garcia -, Spanish poet who authored 1934 stage play Yerma |
| 32% | ARI | 3 | American poet ___ Banias who authored "Anybody" |
| 32% | BLUNDEN | 7 | Edmund —, London-born poet who authored 1928 memoir Undertones of War |
| 32% | JOHN | 4 | & 18D English poet who authored 1677 stage drama All for Love |
| 32% | GERTRUDESTEIN | 13 | "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" author who also wrote the children's book "The World Is Round" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | FLOYD | 5 | Keith —, television chef who authored 2000 autobiography Out of the Frying Pan |
| 31% | BATES | 5 | Katharine Lee —, poet who authored the words to anthem America the Beautiful |
| 31% | SCHILLER | 8 | Friedrich —, German poet who authored stage plays The Robbers and Maria Stuart |
| 31% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Giovanni —, 14th-century Italian poet who authored short story collection The Decameron |
| 31% | JOHN | 4 | English poet who authored volumes The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel |
| 30% | BOULT | 5 | Adrian —, English conductor who authored autobiography My Own Trumpet |
| 30% | MENANDER | 8 | Greek poet and comic dramatist who authored stage play Dyskolos |
| 29% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who created the world of Middle Earth |
| 29% | DIMITRI | 7 | & 8A Russian-American composer and pianist who authored 1959 autobiography Please Don't Hate Me |
| 29% | HOWE | 4 | Julia Ward —, US abolitionist and poet who authored lyric The Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| 29% | DESOCONNOR | 10 | Late entertainer who authored the 2001 autobiography Bananas Can't Fly! |
| 29% | SARAH | 5 | American spoken word poet ___ Kay who authored "No Matter the Wreckage" |
| 29% | CARROLL | 7 | Jim —, poet and musician who authored 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries |