| 100% | LETTS | 5 | 2008 Pulitzer winner Tracy, who wrote the play "August: Osage County" |
| 44% | OSAGE | 5 | "August: ___ County," winner of the 2008 Tony for Best Play |
| 42% | MARC | 4 | Pulitzer winner Connelly who wrote "The Green Pastures" |
| 38% | RAES | 4 | Carson who wrote the Fire and Thorns Trilogy, a NYT best-seller, and poet Armantrout who penned "Versed", a Pulitzer winner |
| 37% | HAL | 3 | Actor Holbrook who wrote the play "Mark Twain Tonight!" |
| 37% | HELLER | 6 | Joseph who wrote the play “We Bombed in New Haven” |
| 36% | ALBEE | 5 | Edward who wrote the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia" |
| 35% | DAVA | 4 | Sobel who wrote the Pulitzer-nominated "Galileo's Daughter" |
| 35% | TARTT | 5 | Donna who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch" |
| 34% | ROREM | 5 | Ned, who composed "Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra", first played in '75 and winner of the Pulitzer in '76 |
| 34% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning "A Visit From the Goon Squad" |
| 34% | ATHOL | 5 | Fugard who wrote the 2015 play "The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek" |
| 34% | SAMPRAS | 7 | Sports star who wrote the 2008 best seller "A Champion's Mind" |
| 34% | ALEC | 4 | Greven who wrote the 2008 best seller "How to Talk to Girls" |
| 33% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” |
| 33% | LLCOOLJ | 7 | Rapper who wrote the kid's book "And the Winner Is ... " (3 wds.) |
| 33% | MAE | 3 | West who wrote plays under the pen name Jane Mast |
| 33% | OSAGE | 5 | "August: ___ County" (Tracy Letts Pulitzer-winning play) |
| 33% | ALANMENKEN | 10 | EGOT winner who wrote the music for “Aladdin” |
| 33% | NAOMIOSAKA | 10 | 2021 Best Female Athlete ESPY winner who wrote the kids' book "The Way Champs Play": 2 wds. |
| 33% | LETTS | 5 | "August: Osage County" playwright Tracy |
| 33% | LETTS | 5 | “August: Osage County” playwright Tracy |
| 32% | TBOONE | 6 | Millionaire oilman Pickens who wrote "The First Billion is the Hardest" in 2008 |
| 32% | OSAGE | 5 | "August: ___ County" (2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play) |
| 31% | OSAGE | 5 | August: ___ County (Meryl Streep film based on a Tracy Letts play) |
| 31% | WILSON | 6 | August —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for The Piano Lesson and Fences |
| 31% | INGE | 4 | William, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for the Broadway play "Picnic" |
| 30% | WIESEL | 6 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie who wrote the memoirs "Night," "Dawn," and "Day" |
| 30% | JULIETTELEWIS | 13 | "August: Osage County" actress who appears in "Ma" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | TIMTEBOW | 8 | 2007 Heisman winner who went on to play for the Broncos |