| 100% | LYLE | 4 | Yankee Sparky who wrote "The Bronx Zoo" |
| 48% | NASH | 4 | Ogden who wrote "The Bronx? / No, thonx!" |
| 48% | TORRE | 5 | Manager who wrote ''The Yankee Years'' |
| 48% | JIMBOUTON | 9 | New York Yankees pitcher who wrote the baseball memoir "Ball Four" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ALBEE | 5 | Playwright Edward who wrote "The Zoo Story" |
| 44% | ACRES | 5 | The Bronx Zoo has 265 of them |
| 44% | PLATO | 5 | Philosopher who wrote the "Republic" |
| 44% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Italian who wrote The Decameron |
| 44% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 44% | LOIS | 4 | Lowry who wrote The Giver |
| 44% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote The Fountainhead |
| 44% | EUCLID | 6 | Mathematician who wrote the "Elements" |
| 43% | NYC | 3 | Where the Bronx Zoo is: Abbr. |
| 43% | GIULIANI | 8 | Politician who wrote the book "Leadership" |
| 43% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 43% | MEYER | 5 | Stephenie who wrote the "Twilight" novels |
| 43% | HAYDN | 5 | Joseph who wrote the "Surprise" Symphony |
| 43% | FEY | 3 | Tina who wrote the autobiographical "Bossypants" |
| 43% | MEYER | 5 | Stephenie who wrote the "Twilight" series |
| 43% | ELIE | 4 | Wiesel who wrote the memoir "Night" |
| 43% | STIEG | 5 | Larsson who wrote the "Millennium" trilogy |
| 43% | OBAMA | 5 | Michelle who wrote the memoir "Becoming" |
| 43% | FEY | 3 | Tina who wrote the memoir "Bossypants" |
| 43% | ELENA | 5 | Ferrante who wrote the Neapolitan quartet |
| 43% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, playwright who wrote The Caretaker |
| 43% | LENA | 4 | Dunham who wrote the sitcom Girls |
| 43% | FRIEDAN | 7 | Betty who wrote The Feminine Mystique |
| 43% | DONOGHUE | 8 | Emma who wrote the novel Room |
| 43% | WALKER | 6 | Alice who wrote The Color Purple |
| 43% | DAHL | 4 | Author Roald, who wrote The BFG |