| 100% | RICHARDADAMS | 12 | Writer who created Fiver, Hazel, and their fellow rabbits in "Watership Down": 2 wds. |
| 49% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Writer who created Peter Rabbit and Cotton-tail: 2 wds. |
| 48% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who created the White Rabbit and the March Hare: 2 wds. |
| 44% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Kid-lit writer who created Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (2 wds.) |
| 39% | ISSARAE | 7 | Actress who created and starred in HBO's "Insecure" as Ms. Dee: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ROBERTCRAIS | 11 | Mystery writer who created private detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike (2 wds.) |
| 37% | LOISLOWRY | 9 | Kid-lit writer who created Gooney Bird Greene and Anastasia Krupnik (2 wds.) |
| 36% | TESSGERRITSEN | 13 | Mystery writer who created Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Maura Isles (2 wds.) |
| 34% | BIGWIG | 6 | Brave and stubborn rabbit in Watership Down |
| 34% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Kid-lit writer who created Ramona Quimby and Runaway Ralph (2 wds.) |
| 34% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | Mystery writer who (as J.D. Robb) created Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective Delia Peabody (2 wds.) |
| 34% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Kid-lit writer who created Fudge Hatcher and Sally J. Freedman (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ROBDELANEY | 10 | Actor and comedian who created the British sitcom "Catastrophe" and stars in it opposite Sharon Horgan: 2 wds. |
| 33% | RICHARDCASTLE | 13 | Writer who was the title character in a 2009-2016 crime series: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Writer who created Frodo Baggins, traveler to Mount Doom in Middle-earth: 4 wds. |
| 32% | JULESVERNE | 10 | Writer who created Captain Nemo, traveler to the submerged city of Atlantis: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JILLMURPHY | 10 | British writer and illustrator who created 41-Across (2 wds.) |
| 32% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | English literary nonsense writer who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland": 2 wds. |
| 32% | PLTRAVERS | 9 | Writer born August 9, 1899, who created 33-Across and who was portrayed in 46-Across (3 wds.) |
| 32% | ANTONCHEKHOV | 12 | Russian writer who created the characters played by 15-Across, 40-Across, and 45-Across in "The Seagull" |
| 32% | RAYBRADBURY | 11 | "S Is for Space" short-story writer who was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | KATEWILHELM | 11 | "The Mile-Long Spaceship" short-story writer who was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2003 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | IRISJOHANSEN | 12 | Mystery writer who created forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (2 wds.) |
| 31% | LOUISCK | 7 | Stand-up comedian who created and stars in an award-winning FX series: 3 wds. |
| 31% | MORGANFREEMAN | 13 | "The Dark Knight" actor who created a honeybee sanctuary in his Mississippi hometown: 2 wds. |
| 31% | LARRYDAVID | 10 | Actor and comedian who created HBO's comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and stars in it as a fictionalized version of himself: 2 wds. |
| 31% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | British writer and illustrator who created 15-Across and 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 31% | JEFFERYDEAVER | 13 | Mystery writer who created quadriplegic forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme (2 wds.) |
| 31% | SARAPARETSKY | 12 | Mystery writer who created private investigator V.I. Warshawski (2 wds.) |
| 30% | LFRANKBAUM | 10 | Writer who created Oz: 3 wds. |