| 100% | ANNEFRANK | 9 | Writer whose account was first published as “Het Achterhuis” (“The Secret Annex”) |
| 38% | AMYTAN | 6 | Writer whose first novel was adapted as a film by Wayne Wang |
| 36% | JANEGOODALL | 11 | Writer whose second book about chimpanzees, "In the Shadow of Man," was published in 1971 (2 wds.) |
| 36% | CHUCKPALAHNIUK | 14 | Writer whose novel "Fight Club" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name (2 wds.) |
| 36% | SHIRLEYJACKSON | 14 | Writer whose novel "The Haunting of Hill House" was adapted as the 1999 film "The Haunting" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | OPAL | 4 | Birthstone whose first letter is the same as that of its month |
| 34% | PIA | 3 | Zadora, whose first movie was as Girmar in "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" ('64) |
| 34% | KUOMINTANG | 10 | Political party in China known as the KMT whose first president was Song Jiaoren |
| 34% | EMMYROSSUM | 10 | "Shameless" actress whose first name is the same as a TV award: 2 wds. |
| 34% | OSCARDELAHOYA | 13 | Mexican-American boxer whose first name is the same as a movie award: 4 wds. |
| 34% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 37-Across, writer whose 15-Across/48-Across was published posthumously with the help of her husband, Patton Oswalt |
| 34% | MASSACHUSETTS | 13 | State whose General Court was the first to recognize Fourth of July as a state celebration |
| 34% | ALCAPONE | 8 | Noted criminal whose name starts with the same first four letters as where he was imprisoned |
| 33% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Writer whose first collection of poetry, "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie," was published in 1971 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | GRAHAM | 6 | With 35-Across, writer whose novel "The End of the Affair" was adapted as a 1999 film of the same name |
| 33% | TONYCURTIS | 10 | "Some Like It Hot" star whose first name is the same as a Broadway award: 2 wds. |
| 33% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | Writer whose second Earthsea novel, "The Tombs of Atuan," was published in 1971 (4 wds.) |
| 33% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | American writer whose novel "The Age of Innocence" was published in 1920 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | EUGENEONEILL | 12 | American writer whose play "The Emperor Jones" was first produced in 1920 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | SAMINNOSRAT | 11 | Chef and cookbook writer whose four elements of cooking are the first words of the answers to 16-, 23-, 48-, and 56-Across |
| 32% | HOFF | 4 | Harry S —, English author whose 1934 debut novel Trina was published in the US as It Happened in PRK |
| 32% | AGATHACHRISTIE | 14 | British writer whose novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was published in 1920 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | ELVISPRESLEY | 12 | Singer known as the "The King of Rock and Roll" whose first hit singles were with Sun Records (2 wds.) |
| 32% | ANNE | 4 | Bradstreet who was the first published writer from England's North American colonies (1650) |
| 31% | AUSTEN | 6 | Author whose first novel was anonymously published under the byline “By a Lady” |
| 31% | MERIMEE | 7 | Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera |
| 31% | AESOP | 5 | Writer whose several hundred works are catalogued by the Perry Index |
| 31% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | The first book of them was published |
| 31% | TERI | 4 | Actress Hatcher whose first TV role was as a dancer on "The Love Boat" |
| 31% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Novel whose first chapter is preceded by eighty epigraphs, none of which ought to be taken as “veritable gospel cetology,” per the author |