| 100% | BEEBE | 5 | William who wrote "Half Mile Down" |
| 54% | STEIG | 5 | William who wrote "Shrek!" |
| 54% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "Bus Stop" |
| 53% | GOLDMAN | 7 | William who wrote The Princess Bride |
| 53% | SERENA | 6 | Williams who wrote "On the Line" |
| 51% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "What is originality? Undetected plagiarism" |
| 51% | STYRON | 6 | William who wrote "The Confessions of Nat Turner" |
| 51% | INGE | 4 | American playwright William who wrote "Picnic" |
| 51% | WORDSWORTH | 10 | Poet William who wrote "The Prelude" |
| 51% | SAFIRE | 6 | Columnist William who wrote "On Language" |
| 51% | INGE | 4 | Playwright William who wrote "Bus Stop" |
| 50% | INGE | 4 | American playwright William who wrote "Bus Stop" |
| 49% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" |
| 48% | FAULKNER | 8 | 1949 Literature Nobelist William who wrote "Light in August" |
| 48% | OSLER | 5 | Sir William who wrote "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" |
| 47% | BENNETT | 7 | Brit who wrote "The Vanishing Half" |
| 46% | ALLIE | 5 | Brosh who wrote "Hyperbole and a Half" |
| 46% | TENNESSEE | 9 | Williams, who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| 46% | RIIS | 4 | Jacob who wrote "How the Other Half Lives" |
| 46% | ALGER | 5 | Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys |
| 45% | RIIS | 4 | Reformer Jacob who wrote "How the Other Half Lives" |
| 44% | FAULKNER | 8 | Novelist William who wrote "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" |
| 41% | AGATHA | 6 | Christie who wrote 38-Down |
| 40% | STRUNK | 6 | William who co-wrote "The Elements of Style" |
| 40% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" |
| 39% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer who wrote the "William Tell Overture" |
| 38% | NEHRU | 5 | Leader who wrote "The Discovery of [96-Down]" |
| 38% | INGE | 4 | William ___, American playwright who wrote "Picnic" |
| 37% | MILEY | 5 | Singer Cyrus who wrote the memoir "Miles to Go" |
| 37% | ELIA | 4 | Essayist who wrote "Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment" |