| Author of "Two Years Behind the Mast" | 47 |
| Author of "Ulalume" | 29 |
| Author of "Underworld" and "Mao II" | 55 |
| Author of "Unsafe at Any Speed" | 41 |
| Author of "Unto the Sons" | 35 |
| Author of "Utopia" | 28 |
| Author of "Vérité" | 34 |
| Author of "Waiting for Lefty" | 39 |
| Author of "Wall Street Jungle" | 40 |
| Author of "War and Peace" | 35 |
| Author of "Watch on the Rhine," politely | 50 |
| Author of "Westward Ha!" | 34 |
| Author of "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?" | 58 |
| Author of "While Reagan Slept" | 40 |
| Author of "White Noise" | 33 |
| Author of "Why I Live at the P.O." | 44 |
| Author of "Why Not the Best?" | 39 |
| Author of "Why Women Should Rule the World" | 53 |
| Author of "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" | 58 |
| Author of "Winning Bridge Made Easy" | 46 |
| Author of "Winter's Tales," 1942 | 46 |
| Author of "Wonderland" | 32 |
| Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
| Author of "Work in Progress" | 38 |
| Author of "World of Our Fathers" | 42 |
| Author of "Yankee From Olympus" | 41 |
| Author of "Your Erroneous Zones" | 42 |
| Author of 13 books on metaphysics | 33 |
| Author of 1980's "The Annotated Gulliver's Travels" | 69 |
| Author of 1998's "Diplomacy for the Next Century" | 63 |
| Author of 2001's "Fury" | 37 |
| Author of 450+ books | 20 |
| Author of a 1719 literary sensation | 35 |
| Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine | 57 |
| Author of a 1998 report | 23 |
| Author of a 50-million copy best seller | 39 |
| Author of a 65+-million-selling novel | 37 |
| Author of a best-selling reader | 31 |
| Author of a book "As Dictated to Barbara Bush" | 56 |
| Author of a book with "chin" in its title | 51 |
| Author of a classic novel about treasure hunters: Abbr. | 55 |
| Author of a famous comedy | 25 |
| Author of a famous elegy | 24 |
| Author of a history making 1837 report | 38 |
| Author of a once-popular book of quotations | 43 |
| Author of a red book | 20 |
| Author of Acts, by most accounts | 32 |
| Author of Arcadian Adventures | 29 |
| Author of bequest | 17 |
| Author of biblical novels | 25 |
| Author of books for boys | 24 |
| Author of books herein named | 28 |
| Author of boys' books | 25 |
| Author of celebratory verses | 28 |
| Author of children's books | 30 |
| Author of Christmas poem | 24 |
| Author of epistolas | 19 |
| Author of featured quotation | 28 |
| Author of fiction? | 18 |
| Author of gold rush stories | 27 |
| Author of Gothic short stories, in short | 40 |
| Author of Harry Potter books | 28 |
| Author of Hindu fairy tales? | 28 |
| Author of inspirational stories for boys | 40 |
| Author of kids' Busytown books | 34 |
| Author of La Montagne Secrete | 29 |
| Author of Lee biography | 23 |
| Author of legal thrillers | 25 |
| Author of many a talking animal story | 37 |
| Author of medical fiction | 25 |
| Author of more than 600 compositions | 36 |
| Author of more than 90 novels | 29 |
| Author of muchas epÃstolas | 29 |
| Author of nature books | 22 |
| Author of Old West novels | 25 |
| Author of one of the Gospels | 28 |
| Author of Perry tales | 21 |
| Author of Portnoy's Complaint | 33 |
| Author of quotation | 19 |
| Author of quotation below | 25 |
| Author of quote | 15 |
| Author of quoted poem | 21 |
| Author of scary stories? | 24 |
| Author of sci-fi's "War With the Newts" | 53 |
| Author of seven autobiographies | 31 |
| Author of several New Testament epistles | 40 |
| Author of some stories appropriate for Halloween | 48 |
| Author of Stepquote | 19 |
| Author of the #1 best seller "Couples" | 48 |
| Author of the "Annus Mirabilis" papers | 48 |
| Author of the "Asian Saga" series | 43 |
| Author of the "Black Widowers" series of mysteries | 60 |
| Author of the "Earth's Children" series | 53 |
| Author of the "Elements," ca. 300 B.C. | 48 |
| Author of the "Goosebumps" book series | 48 |
| Author of the "Goosebumps" series | 43 |
| Author of the "Minimax Cookbook" | 42 |
| Author of the "Wiener Dog Art" collection | 51 |
| Author of the 1899 children's book "The Wouldbegoods" | 67 |
| Author of the 1922 best-seller "Etiquette" | 52 |