| 100% | AAMILNE | 7 | Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" |
| 89% | MILNE | 5 | Who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" |
| 34% | JOHNSTEINBECK | 13 | He wrote "In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable" |
| 27% | MASHA | 5 | Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" |
| 27% | POOH | 4 | Fictional bear who tries to capture a Heffalump |
| 27% | WANNABE | 7 | Person who tries hard to fit into a group |
| 27% | AOSCOTT | 7 | Film critic who wrote, “A boxing movie without clichés is like a political campaign without lies” |
| 27% | GAILSIMONE | 10 | Writer who had the longest tenure as a woman writing Wonder Woman comic books (2 wds.) |
| 26% | MAO | 3 | He wrote "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" |
| 26% | BETTY | 5 | Smith who wrote "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" |
| 26% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur who wrote "A Hard Road to Glory" |
| 26% | ASHE | 4 | Athlete who wrote "A Hard Road to Glory" |
| 26% | NOAH | 4 | Trevor ___ who wrote "Born a Crime" |
| 26% | NOAH | 4 | Trevor who wrote "Born a Crime" |
| 26% | MARY | 4 | ___ Wollstonecraft, English feminist writer who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" |
| 25% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis legend Arthur who wrote "A Hard Road to Glory" |
| 25% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great Arthur who wrote "A Hard Road to Glory" |
| 25% | WALTERBENJAMIN | 14 | German philosopher who wrote, “The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope” |
| 25% | TREVOR | 6 | Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical "Born a Crime" |
| 25% | ELIA | 4 | Essayist who wrote "Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment" |
| 25% | ANNE | 4 | Frank who wrote a diary |
| 25% | AUTHOR | 6 | Person who writes a book |
| 25% | NOAH | 4 | TV host Trevor who wrote the memoir "Born a Crime" |
| 24% | ANNALIST | 8 | Writer who writes about the year's events |
| 24% | SECRETCODE | 10 | Who wrote a 2003 best seller about a ___? |
| 24% | MILNE | 5 | Who wrote, in a classic children's book, "It is hard to be brave ... when you're only a Very Small Animal" |
| 24% | ANON | 4 | “I would venture to guess that ___, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman”: Virginia Woolf |
| 24% | AESOP | 5 | Greek writer who wrote about talking animals |
| 24% | HITE | 4 | Shere who wrote a noted 1976 report |
| 24% | GOETHE | 6 | Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines" |