| 100% | TYRA | 4 | Supermodel Banks who wrote the bestselling Y.A. novel "Modelland" |
| 57% | TYRA | 4 | Banks who wrote the 2011 novel "Modelland" |
| 57% | TYRA | 4 | Banks who wrote the YA novel "Modelland" |
| 50% | JOHNGRISHAM | 11 | Former lawyer who wrote the bestselling novel "The Reckoning" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | JOHNGRISHAM | 11 | Former lawyer who wrote the bestselling 2018 novel "The Reckoning" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | MEGGARDINER | 11 | Former lawyer who wrote the bestselling novel "Into the Black Nowhere" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | DAVIDBALDACCI | 13 | Former lawyer who wrote the bestselling novel "Long Road to Mercy" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | MEGGARDINER | 11 | Former lawyer who wrote the bestselling 2018 novel "Into the Black Nowhere" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | DAVIDBALDACCI | 13 | Former lawyer who wrote the bestselling 2018 novel "The Long Road to Mercy" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Mystery author who wrote the 2015 novel “X” (the twenty-fourth in a series) |
| 46% | DARIN | 5 | Strauss who wrote the 2020 novel "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story" |
| 45% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |
| 43% | TYRA | 4 | Banks who published a young adult novel appropriately titled "Modelland" |
| 43% | SNOOKI | 6 | TV star who wrote the novel "A Shore Thing," informally |
| 42% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” |
| 41% | TYRA | 4 | Supermodel Banks who coined the word "smize" |
| 41% | ODO | 3 | NY photographer Spreitzenbarth who shot Tyra Banks' "15: A Tribute to the Supermodel" (2013) |
| 41% | ANGIETHOMAS | 11 | Novelist who wrote the Y.A. bestsellers 17-Across and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | BENITOMUSSOLINI | 15 | World leader who wrote a novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" |
| 41% | DONOGHUE | 8 | Emma who wrote the novel Room |
| 41% | ELLISON | 7 | Ralph who wrote the novel "Juneteenth" |
| 41% | MEYER | 5 | Stephenie who wrote the "Twilight" novels |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Who wrote the line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 40% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author who wrote the novel The Godfather |
| 40% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 40% | DISRAELI | 8 | British politician who wrote the novel Coningsby |
| 40% | BRAM | 4 | Stoker who wrote the epistolary novel "Dracula" |
| 40% | FRANZEN | 7 | Jonathan who wrote the 2021 novel "Crossroads" |
| 40% | MCBAIN | 6 | Ed who wrote the 87th Precinct novels |
| 40% | IAN | 3 | Fleming who wrote the Bond spy novels |