| 100% | BROKAW | 6 | Tom who wrote "The Greatest Generation" |
| 69% | EBERT | 5 | Reviewer who wrote The Great Movies |
| 68% | HAYDEN | 6 | Activist Tom who wrote the Port Huron Statement |
| 65% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote the Tattered Tom series |
| 63% | PAINE | 5 | Tom who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
| 62% | WOLFE | 5 | Tom who wrote ''The Right Stuff'' |
| 60% | WOLFE | 5 | Tom who wrote "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" |
| 58% | AGASSI | 6 | Tennis great who wrote the 2009 tell-all "Open" |
| 57% | WILLACATHER | 11 | American novelist who wrote the Great Plains trilogy of 15-Across, "The Song of the Lark," and 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 57% | BROKAW | 6 | Tom, American writer of The Greatest Generation |
| 56% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 55% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote, "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing" |
| 54% | CARLI | 5 | Soccer great Lloyd who wrote the memoir "When Nobody Was Watching" |
| 52% | CONROY | 6 | Pat who wrote "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini" |
| 52% | PLATO | 5 | Philosopher who wrote the "Republic" |
| 52% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Italian who wrote The Decameron |
| 52% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 52% | LOIS | 4 | Lowry who wrote The Giver |
| 52% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote The Fountainhead |
| 52% | EUCLID | 6 | Mathematician who wrote the "Elements" |
| 52% | FSCOTT | 6 | __ Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby |
| 51% | ADAMS | 5 | President who wrote, "Great is the guilt of unnecessary war" |
| 51% | GIULIANI | 8 | Politician who wrote the book "Leadership" |
| 51% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 51% | MEYER | 5 | Stephenie who wrote the "Twilight" novels |
| 51% | HAYDN | 5 | Joseph who wrote the "Surprise" Symphony |
| 51% | FEY | 3 | Tina who wrote the autobiographical "Bossypants" |
| 51% | MEYER | 5 | Stephenie who wrote the "Twilight" series |
| 51% | ELIE | 4 | Wiesel who wrote the memoir "Night" |
| 51% | STIEG | 5 | Larsson who wrote the "Millennium" trilogy |