| 100% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | African-American sci-fi novelist who won three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel (3 wds.) |
| 61% | NNEDIOKORAFOR | 13 | African-American sci-fi novelist who won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for Best Novella (2 wds.) |
| 54% | OCTAVIABUTLER | 13 | African-American sci-fi novelist who won two Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards (2 wds.) |
| 48% | LOUISEPENNY | 11 | Canadian novelist who won the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel five times (2 wds.) |
| 40% | NNEDIOKORAFOR | 13 | 15-Across and 32-Across novelist who won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for "Binti" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | ARKADYMARTINE | 13 | Writer whose "A Memory Called Empire" won the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SAMUELRDELANY | 13 | Novelist who won Nebula Awards for "Babel-17" and "The Einstein Intersection" (3 wds.) |
| 39% | EDGAR | 5 | Award for Best Novel won three times by Dick Francis |
| 39% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | American novelist who won eight Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards in a writing career that spanned six decades (4 wds.) |
| 39% | LIUCIXIN | 8 | Author who, in 2015, became the first Asian to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, for “The Three-Body Problem” |
| 38% | ANNEMCCAFFREY | 13 | Novelist who won a Nebula Award for "Dragonrider" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BEFORETHEFALL | 13 | Noah Hawley novel that won the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel (3 wds.) |
| 38% | THELOCKARTIST | 13 | Steve Hamilton novel that won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel (3 wds.) |
| 37% | BRUCEDESILVA | 12 | Novelist whose "Rogue Island" won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2 wds.) |
| 37% | JASONMATTHEWS | 13 | Novelist whose "Red Sparrow" won the 2014 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2 wds.) |
| 37% | HERBIEHANCOCK | 13 | American bandleader and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1986 movie "Round Midnight" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | Sci-fi author whose 2017 novel "The Stone Sky" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 3 wds. |
| 37% | JAMESLBROOKS | 12 | Filmmaker who won three Oscars (Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay) for 1983's "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 37% | ALEXBERENSON | 12 | Novelist whose "The Faithful Spy" won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2 wds.) |
| 37% | AMERICANGODS | 12 | Novel by 39-Across that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (2 wds.) |
| 37% | WILLIAMSTYRON | 13 | Novelist who won the National Book Award for Fiction for 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | BEFORETHEFALL | 13 | Noah Hawley novel that won an Edgar Award for Best Novel (3 wds.) |
| 37% | THELOCKARTIST | 13 | Steve Hamilton novel that won an Edgar Award for Best Novel (3 wds.) |
| 36% | JOHNWILLIAMS | 12 | American conductor and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1982 movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | JULIAGARNER | 11 | "Inventing Anna" actress who won three Emmy Awards for playing Ruth Langmore on "Ozark" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | GWILLOWWILSON | 13 | Writer/artist who won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best New Series with Christian Ward for "Invisible Kingdom" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | JAMESEARLJONES | 14 | Actor who voiced Darth Vader and won two Tony Awards for Best Actor: 3 wds. |
| 35% | WHOFEARSDEATH | 13 | 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel winner by 49-Across (3 wds.) |
| 35% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | "American Gods" novelist who won the 2018 Audie Award for Narration by the Author for his story collection "Norse Mythology" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | SEBASTIANYATRA | 14 | "Dos Oruguitas" singer who won the 2022 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Song (2 wds.) |