| 100% | COLSON | 6 | ___ Whitehead, author of the 2017 Pulitzer-winning novel "The Underground Railroad" |
| 63% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 53% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | TREES | 5 | Subjects of the 2019 Pulitzer-winning novel "The Overstory" |
| 45% | JARED | 5 | ___ Diamond, author of the 1998 Pulitzer-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" |
| 45% | GWENDOLYNBROOKS | 15 | Pulitzer-winning author of the quote |
| 45% | TARTT | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author of The Goldfinch |
| 45% | THENICKELBOYS | 13 | Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize (3 wds.) |
| 44% | AGE | 3 | Edith Wharton's Pulitzer winning novel "The ___ of Innocence" |
| 44% | NATALIEDIAZ | 11 | Author of the Pulitzer-winning collection “Postcolonial Love Poem” |
| 44% | ROBINSON | 8 | Marilynne —, author of 2004 novel Gilead; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 43% | ADIGA | 5 | Aravind —, author of 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger |
| 43% | LAHIRI | 6 | Jhumpa ___, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Interpreter of Maladies" |
| 43% | POOLE | 5 | Ernest —, author of 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel His Family |
| 43% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 43% | CORA | 4 | Protagonist of Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" |
| 42% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 42% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer ___, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" |
| 42% | JAMESAGEE | 9 | Pulitzer-winning author of A Death in the Family |
| 42% | GRAU | 4 | Shirley Ann ___, Pulitzer-winning author of The Black Prince |
| 42% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 42% | SHOLEMASCH | 10 | Author of the novels Uncle Moses and The Nazarene |
| 42% | LESS | 4 | Andrew Greer's 2017 Pulitzer winning novel |
| 42% | TROLLOPE | 8 | Author of the Barsetshire novels |
| 42% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author of the Godfather novels |
| 42% | OTTESSA | 7 | ___ Moshfegh, author of the 2015 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-winning novel "Eileen" |
| 42% | DOERR | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author of “All the Light We Cannot See” |
| 42% | IAINBANKS | 9 | Author of the novels The Business and The Wasp Factory |
| 41% | BEVERLYJENKINS | 14 | Author of the 1997 historical-romance novel “Topaz” |