| 100% | KAI | 3 | '06 Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Bird |
| 62% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper |
| 61% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 53% | STUDSTERKEL | 11 | US author and broadcaster whose work The Good War: An Oral History of World War II won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| 52% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author James |
| 52% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber |
| 52% | BOO | 3 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine ___ |
| 51% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 50% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber (anagram of "dean") |
| 49% | DOWD | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen |
| 49% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning ___ Ferber who authored "Show Boat" |
| 48% | GENE | 4 | Author and Pulitzer-winning WaPo journalist Weingarten |
| 46% | ANNE | 4 | 2004 Pulitzer winning journalist and author Applebaum |
| 46% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning novelist James ___ |
| 45% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 45% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 45% | STEINBECK | 9 | Nobel Prize-winning author of Of Mice and Men |
| 44% | ART | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist ___ Spiegelman who created "Maus" |
| 44% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 44% | MARYOLIVER | 10 | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose poems include "The Summer Day" and "Wild Geese": 2 wds. |
| 44% | ASTRANGELOOP | 12 | Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson, and an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 44% | FROST | 5 | American poet Robert ___ who authored "The Road Not Taken" and won the Pulitzer four times |
| 43% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 42% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 42% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 42% | TONI | 4 | Nobel- and Pulitzer-winning author Morrison |
| 42% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by Einstein and Yeats |
| 42% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by Obama and Carter |
| 42% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 41% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by Obama, Roosevelt and Carter |