| 100% | ABELL | 5 | “___ for Adano” (Pulitzer-winning John Hersey book) |
| 65% | UPDIKE | 6 | John who won two Pulitzers for fiction |
| 62% | MCPHEE | 6 | John who won a Pulitzer for “Annals of the Former World” |
| 60% | GMAN | 4 | Book about J. Edgar Hoover that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography |
| 59% | OLIO | 4 | Tyehimba Jess' book that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 59% | MCPHEE | 6 | Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" |
| 58% | HIROSHIMA | 9 | 1946 John Hersey book |
| 54% | ADANO | 5 | John Hersey's "A Bell for ___" |
| 54% | ADANO | 5 | John Hersey’s “A Bell for ___” |
| 51% | STAYTRUE | 8 | Inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography-winning book by Hua Hsu |
| 50% | ADANO | 5 | "A Bell for ___" (Pulitzer-winning John Hersey novel set in an Italian town) |
| 50% | FOR | 3 | "A Bell ___ Adano" (Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Hersey) |
| 49% | HERSEY | 6 | "A Bell for Adano" author John |
| 48% | AIDA | 4 | What John won a Tony for |
| 47% | ASEPARATEPACE | 13 | John Knowles book about the tortoise's winning strategy? |
| 47% | EDNAFERBER | 10 | ...she won a Pulitzer for So Big |
| 47% | ASBYATT | 7 | She won the Booker Prize for Possession |
| 46% | UPDIKE | 6 | Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner John |
| 46% | PERLE | 5 | George who won a 1986 Pulitzer for music |
| 46% | LURIE | 5 | Alison who won a Pulitzer for "Foreign Affairs" |
| 46% | EDER | 4 | Richard ___ who won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
| 46% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 46% | UPTON | 5 | Sinclair who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 46% | ROREM | 5 | Composer who won a Pulitzer for "Air Music" |
| 46% | SARA | 4 | Teasdale who won the Pulitzer for "Love Songs" |
| 46% | EVARISTO | 8 | Bernadine who won Booker for Girl, Woman, Other |
| 46% | ROOTS | 5 | Pulitzer-winning Alex Haley book |
| 46% | UPDIKE | 6 | Pulitzer-winning author john |
| 45% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer for "Buried Child" |
| 45% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |