| 100% | ROTH | 4 | Veronica ___, "Divergent" author who curated a Tumblr blog called "The Art of Not Writing" |
| 40% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" |
| 38% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 37% | VERNE | 5 | Author of the quote "I am not what you call a civilized man!" |
| 37% | LEE | 3 | Author Nelle ___ of "Go Set a Watchman" who wrote under the pen name Harper |
| 37% | LOVECRAFT | 9 | Horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" |
| 36% | ROTH | 4 | Author Veronica who wrote the "Divergent" books |
| 36% | ALCOTT | 6 | Author of "Jo's Boys" Louisa May ___ who wrote under the pen name A.M. Barnard |
| 36% | HPLOVECRAFT | 11 | Classic horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu": 3 wds. |
| 34% | BAUM | 4 | Author who wrote about the Land of Oz |
| 34% | WILLIAM | 7 | ___ Faulkner, author of "The Sound and the Fury" who once wrote the entire outline to a novel on his office walls |
| 33% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" |
| 33% | MARYSHELLEY | 11 | Author who began writing 28-Across at the age of 18: 2 wds. |
| 33% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of her own "Gone Girl": 2 wds. |
| 32% | ANDERSEN | 8 | Classic author who was the subject of a 1952 film musical |
| 32% | LAIC | 4 | A common man who is not part of the clergy |
| 32% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" |
| 32% | CARRIEFISHER | 12 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of her own "Postcards From the Edge": 2 wds. |
| 32% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 32% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco who wrote a book of poetry called "Verses" |
| 32% | LAIC | 4 | Person who is not a member of the clergy |
| 32% | EZRA | 4 | Pound who wrote "In a Station of the Metro" |
| 31% | CSLEWIS | 7 | British author who wrote the children's series "The Chronicles of Narnia" (3 wds.) |
| 31% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Mystery author who wrote the 2015 novel “X” (the twenty-fourth in a series) |
| 31% | ANI | 3 | Singer DiFranco who wrote a book of poetry called "Verses" |
| 31% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for "Hell of a Book": 2 wds. |
| 31% | JOHNUPDIKE | 10 | Author of the Rabbit series who wrote the 1988 novel "S.": 2 wds. |
| 31% | BRONTE | 6 | Author of "Wuthering Heights" Emily ___ who wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell |
| 31% | DAN | 3 | American author ___ Brown who wrote the Robert Langdon series of novels |
| 31% | ECO | 3 | Author Umberto who wrote "The Name of the Rose" |