| 100% | EDEL | 4 | Writer of the five-volume biography "Henry James" |
| 82% | EDEL | 4 | Writer of a five-volume Henry James biography |
| 53% | FLECKER | 7 | James Elroy —, London-born writer whose volumes of poetry include 1913's The Golden Journey to Samarkand |
| 52% | ALADY | 5 | Henry James' The Portrait of __ |
| 47% | SELICK | 6 | Henry, director of James and the Giant Peach |
| 47% | DELAMARE | 8 | Walter —, writer of poetry volume Peacock Pie and novel Henry Brocken |
| 46% | KNEW | 4 | Henry James novel of 1897 about the daughter of divorced, narcissistic parents: "What Maisie ___" |
| 45% | ALADY | 5 | Henry James's "The Portrait of ___" |
| 45% | CHANG | 5 | Jung —, author of the volume of biography Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
| 45% | QUINT | 5 | Peter —, ghostly character in 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw |
| 44% | ALADY | 5 | Henry James's "The Portrait of ___": 2 wds. |
| 43% | PETER | 5 | & 10A Servant in 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw who seduces Miss Jessel |
| 43% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | Writer who coined the word "factoid" in his biography of Marilyn Monroe (2 wds.) |
| 43% | LENIN | 5 | Writer of the "April Theses" |
| 43% | TACITUS | 7 | Writer of the ethnography "Germania" |
| 43% | QUILLPEN | 8 | Writer of the Magna Carta |
| 43% | PLEXUS | 6 | 1953 novel by Henry Miller, second volume of trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion |
| 43% | TURN | 4 | "The ___ of the Screw" (Henry James novella) |
| 42% | SHAKESPEARE | 11 | Writer of The Merchant of Venice |
| 42% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Writer of the 1918 play "Exiles" |
| 42% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Writer of the graphic novel "Watchmen" |
| 42% | AGASSI | 6 | Writer of the 2009 autobiography "Open" |
| 42% | THURBER | 7 | "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" writer James |
| 42% | WHARTON | 7 | Writer of The Age of Innocence, Edith |
| 42% | GOGOL | 5 | Writer of the short story "The Overcoat" |
| 42% | LIVY | 4 | Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita" |
| 42% | OVID | 4 | Writer of the 644-line poem "Ibis" |
| 42% | STRAUSS | 7 | Writer of the opera Der Rosenkavalier, Richard __ |
| 42% | LINDGREN | 8 | Writer of the Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid __ |
| 42% | DAPHNE | 6 | Writer of The Loving Spirit, du Maurier |