| 100% | JULESVERNE | 10 | Writer who created Captain Nemo, traveler to the submerged city of Atlantis: 2 wds. |
| 45% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | Writer who created the wizard Ged, traveler through Earthsea to vanquish the shadow: 4 wds. |
| 39% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who created the White Rabbit and the March Hare: 2 wds. |
| 38% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Writer who created Frodo Baggins, traveler to Mount Doom in Middle-earth: 4 wds. |
| 37% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Author/illustrator who created the title character of 18-Across: 2 wds. |
| 36% | LESLEYVISSER | 12 | Former Boston Globe writer who was voted the #1 Female Sportscaster of all time: 2 wds. |
| 35% | TINAFEY | 7 | Actress/writer who was the first woman to be head writer of "Saturday Night Live," and the third woman to host five times (2 wds.) |
| 35% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | Writer who coined the word "factoid" in his biography of Marilyn Monroe (2 wds.) |
| 34% | AAMILNE | 7 | Writer who created the Hundred Acre Wood: 3 wds. |
| 34% | FRANKDEFORD | 11 | Former Sports Illustrated writer who was Sportswriter of the Year six times (2 wds.) |
| 34% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction, and wrote the poem, "The Raven": 3 wds. |
| 34% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Writer who created Peter Rabbit and Cotton-tail: 2 wds. |
| 34% | TOMCLANCY | 9 | Writer who created the Jack Ryan series continued with the 2019 novel "Enemy Contact" by Mike Maden (2 wds.) |
| 34% | LUKESKYWALKER | 13 | Fictional traveler to the Death Star: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ISABELAMERCED | 13 | "Dora and the Lost City of Gold" actress who plays Anya Corazon in "Madame Web": 2 wds. |
| 33% | BARBARAWALTERS | 14 | Journalist who created "The View" and cohosted from 1997 to 2014: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ISABELALLENDE | 13 | Chilean-American writer who was awarded the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SALVADORDALI | 12 | Spanish surrealist who created "The Persistence of Memory," a painting with melted clocks: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ISABELAMERCED | 13 | "Dora and the Lost City of Gold" actress who voices 51-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | FRANK | 5 | ___ Miller, comic book writer who created the neo-noir series "Sin City" |
| 32% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | Name given to the team of NASA mathematicians who performed calculations for early space launches (2 wds.) |
| 32% | KURTVONNEGUT | 12 | "Slaughterhouse-Five" writer who had a cameo as himself in the 1986 film "Back to School" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | NICHOLASSPARKS | 14 | 46-Across writer who has had 11 of his novels adapted to film (including 19-Across) (2 wds.) |
| 32% | JAMIEMOYER | 10 | Pitcher in the Mariners Hall of Fame who played to age 49, in 2012: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Writer of the Ramona Quimby children's books who lived to age 104: 2 wds. |
| 32% | RICHARDCASTLE | 13 | Writer who was the title character in a 2009-2016 crime series: 2 wds. |
| 31% | WOODROWWILSON | 13 | President who created the National Park Service in 1916: 2 wds. |
| 31% | YESMAAM | 7 | Servant's reply to the lady of the house: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | 17-Across and 26-Across writer who is the only person to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (2 wds.) |
| 31% | KATHYREICHS | 11 | "Bones" writer who had a cameo as a forensic anthropology professor on the TV adaptation of her series (2 wds.) |