| 100% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who authored "The Conquest of Space" |
| 85% | LEY | 3 | Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 82% | LEY | 3 | Willy, who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 80% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 79% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 79% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___, who wrote "The Conquest of Space" |
| 75% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" ('49) and for whom a crater is named on the far side of the moon |
| 68% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ who wrote "The Conquest of the Moon" |
| 68% | LEY | 3 | "The Conquest of Space" writer Willy |
| 61% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy of "The Conquest of Space" |
| 53% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former US President who authored the book "The Audacity of Hope": 2 wds. |
| 53% | EAPOE | 5 | Author who flunked out of the USMA |
| 52% | TOLKIEN | 7 | Author who created the world of Middle Earth |
| 51% | JIN | 3 | Author Ha ___ who is one of the Misty Poets |
| 51% | ADLER | 5 | Alfred —, Austrian psychiatrist who authored The Neurotic Character and The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology |
| 51% | FLOYD | 5 | Keith —, television chef who authored 2000 autobiography Out of the Frying Pan |
| 50% | POE | 3 | Author who was the subject of the 2012 movie "The Raven" |
| 50% | POE | 3 | Author who inspired the name of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens |
| 49% | OHANLON | 7 | Ardal —, stand-up comedian-actor who authored 1998 novel The Talk of the Town |
| 49% | MALTHUS | 7 | Thomas —, English economist who authored 1798's An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 49% | DANTE | 5 | Author of the famous line "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" |
| 49% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 49% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | Former US president who authored the book "The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War": 2 wds. |
| 49% | LEROUX | 6 | Author Gaston, who wrote The Phantom of the Opera |
| 49% | WYNDHAM | 7 | Author John, who wrote The Day of the Triffids |
| 49% | HOWE | 4 | Julia Ward —, US abolitionist and poet who authored lyric The Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| 49% | OHANLON | 7 | Ardal —, Irish stand-up comedian and actor who authored novel The Talk of the Town |
| 49% | OHANLON | 7 | Ardal —, stand-up comedian and actor who authored 1998 novel The Talk of the Town |
| 49% | MARLOWE | 7 | Christopher —, poet and dramatist who authored stage plays The Jew of Malta and Edward II |