| 100% | SERENA | 6 | Williams who wrote "On the Line" |
| 69% | KEROUAC | 7 | Jack who wrote On The Road |
| 68% | GOLDMAN | 7 | William who wrote The Princess Bride |
| 67% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 64% | INGE | 4 | William who wrote "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" |
| 61% | POE | 3 | Who wrote the line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 61% | ADAM | 4 | Rippon who wrote "Beautiful on the Outside" |
| 61% | TENNESSEE | 9 | Williams, who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| 60% | ZOLA | 4 | Émile who wrote "Truth is on the march" |
| 60% | SAFIRE | 6 | Columnist William who wrote "On Language" |
| 60% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 60% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'" |
| 60% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote the line "Who is John Galt?" |
| 60% | PAULA | 5 | Hawkins who wrote "The Girl on the Train" (2015) |
| 60% | ASTOR | 5 | Mary who wrote the autobiographical "A Life on Film" |
| 60% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "A Walk on the Wild Side" |
| 60% | KOVIC | 5 | Ron who wrote "Born on the Fourth of July" |
| 59% | FAULKNER | 8 | Novelist William who wrote "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" |
| 59% | ERICIDLE | 8 | Who wrote and sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" |
| 59% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet who wrote "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" |
| 59% | HOYLE | 5 | Edmond who wrote a treatise on the game of whist |
| 59% | STYRON | 6 | William who wrote "The Confessions of Nat Turner" |
| 58% | WORDSWORTH | 10 | Poet William who wrote "The Prelude" |
| 58% | SERENA | 6 | "On the Line" author Williams |
| 58% | SAMSMITH | 8 | Singer who wrote The Writing's on the Wall in 2015 |
| 58% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 58% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 57% | SHUTE | 5 | Nevil who wrote "On the Beach" |
| 57% | NOLTE | 5 | Actor Nick who wrote the memoir "Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines" |
| 57% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author who wrote the novel 15-Across was based on: 2 wds. |