| 100% | SONTAG | 6 | Susan who wrote "Illness as Metaphor" |
| 54% | SONTAG | 6 | Susan who wrote "In America" |
| 53% | SONTAG | 6 | Susan who wrote "The Volcano Lover" |
| 53% | ORLEAN | 6 | Susan who wrote "The Orchid Thief" |
| 51% | ISAACS | 6 | Susan who wrote the best seller "Compromising Positions" |
| 50% | ISAACS | 6 | Susan who wrote the 1978 best seller "Compromising Positions" |
| 47% | SHAW | 4 | Who wrote "All great truths begin as blasphemies" |
| 45% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "All great truths begin as blasphemies" |
| 45% | WEBER | 5 | Max who wrote "Politics as a Vocation" |
| 45% | WEBER | 5 | Max who wrote Politics as a Vocation |
| 44% | TYSON | 5 | Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am" |
| 44% | RUNYON | 6 | Damon who wrote the stories adapted as "Guys and Dolls" |
| 43% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies" |
| 43% | RUTHRENDELL | 11 | Mystery author who wrote several novels as Barbara Vine: 2 wds. |
| 43% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Horror author who wrote several novels as Richard Bachman: 2 wds. |
| 43% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "I don't mind eels / Except as meals" |
| 43% | TYSON | 5 | Actress Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am" |
| 43% | SONTAG | 6 | Susan who wrote, "The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth" |
| 42% | JKROWLING | 9 | Children's author who wrote several novels as Robert Galbraith: 3 wds. |
| 42% | ROBERTJOHNSON | 13 | Blues guitarist who wrote such classics as "Cross Road Blues": 2 wds. |
| 42% | DRAMATIST | 9 | A person who writes plays, such as O'Casey or O'Neill |
| 41% | CECIL | 5 | Poet Day-Lewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective novels as Nicholas Blake |
| 41% | CAMUS | 5 | Novelist who wrote L'Etranger, as it's called in its original language |
| 41% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are" |
| 41% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote "At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman" |
| 40% | ANTON | 5 | Susan —, US actress who starred as Goldine Serafin in 1979 film drama Goldengirl |
| 39% | DRAFTER | 7 | Person who helps write a document such as a national constitution |
| 39% | ELGAR | 5 | Edward —, composer who wrote Salut d’Amour as an engagement present for his fiancee in 1888 |
| 39% | DEY | 3 | Actress Susan ___, who won a Golden Globe for her role as Grace Van Owen |
| 39% | STEPHENKING | 11 | "Carrie" author who also wrote horror novels as Richard Bachman: 2 wds. |