| 100% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | Writer who created the wizard Ged, traveler through Earthsea to vanquish the shadow: 4 wds. |
| 45% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Writer who created Frodo Baggins, traveler to Mount Doom in Middle-earth: 4 wds. |
| 45% | JULESVERNE | 10 | Writer who created Captain Nemo, traveler to the submerged city of Atlantis: 2 wds. |
| 35% | AAMILNE | 7 | Writer who created the Hundred Acre Wood: 3 wds. |
| 34% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Writer who created Middle-earth: 4 wds. |
| 34% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who created the White Rabbit and the March Hare: 2 wds. |
| 31% | TOMCLANCY | 9 | Writer who created the Jack Ryan series continued with the 2019 novel "Enemy Contact" by Mike Maden (2 wds.) |
| 31% | VCANDREWS | 9 | Writer who created the Dollanganger family series continued with the 2019 novel "Beneath the Attic" by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman (3 wds.) |
| 31% | ROBERTBPARKER | 13 | Writer who created the Jesse Stone series continued with the 2019 novel "The Bitterest Pill" by Reed Farrel Coleman (3 wds.) |
| 30% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | 17-Across and 26-Across writer who is the only person to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (2 wds.) |
| 30% | CLANCY | 6 | Writer who created the Ryanverse |
| 30% | AUSTEN | 6 | Writer who created the Dashwood sisters |
| 30% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Writer of the Ramona Quimby children's books who lived to age 104: 2 wds. |
| 29% | URIS | 4 | Writer who created the writer Gideon Zadok |
| 29% | VLADIMIRNABOKOV | 15 | Writer who created the character Vivian Darkbloom |
| 29% | BARBARAWALTERS | 14 | Journalist who created "The View" and cohosted from 1997 to 2014: 2 wds. |
| 29% | JANSSON | 7 | Tove __, Finnish writer who created the Moomins |
| 28% | SEVENDAYSINMAY | 14 | 1964 film with Ava Gardner as the former mistress of a general who is plotting to oust the president: 4 wds. |
| 28% | LFRANKBAUM | 10 | Writer who created Oz: 3 wds. |
| 28% | CSLEWIS | 7 | Writer who created Narnia: 3 wds. |
| 28% | SPEIGHT | 7 | Johnny —, comedy writer who created the character Alf Garnett |
| 28% | KURTVONNEGUT | 12 | "Slaughterhouse-Five" writer who had a cameo as himself in the 1986 film "Back to School" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | DAHL | 4 | Writer Roald who created the Oompa-Loompas |
| 28% | BLYTON | 6 | Writer Enid who created the Famous Five |
| 27% | MIGUELCABRERA | 13 | Detroit Tigers first baseman who became the 33rd (and most recent) player to join the 3,000-hit club on 4/23/2022: 2 wds. |
| 27% | JRRTOLKIEN | 10 | Author who took 17 years to publish a sequel to "The Hobbit": 4 wds. |
| 27% | FRANK | 5 | ___ Miller, comic book writer who created the neo-noir series "Sin City" |
| 27% | POPE | 4 | Writer who popularized the saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" |
| 27% | EDGARALLANPOE | 13 | American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction, and wrote the poem, "The Raven": 3 wds. |
| 27% | LOSTINNEWYORK | 13 | "Home Alone 2: ___," the sequel to the first film starring Macaulay Culkin as a child who evades two burglars: 4 wds. |