| 100% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 64% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 60% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 59% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 59% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 57% | LARRYMCMURTRY | 13 | American novelist whose 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove" won the Pulitzer Prize and whose six novels were adapted into films: 2 wds. |
| 56% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 55% | AUGUSTWILSON | 12 | Playwright whose "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| 55% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 55% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 54% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 54% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Novelist whose "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 54% | ANNAQUINDLEN | 12 | "One True Thing," 14-Across, and 26-Across/29-Across novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 (2 wds.) |
| 52% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 52% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Novelist whose "The Testaments" won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 51% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | Writer whose novel "Trust Exercise" won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 49% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 49% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | "The Executioner's Song" novelist who won Pulitzer Prizes for both Fiction and General Nonfiction: 2 wds. |
| 49% | JHUMPALAHIRI | 12 | Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | American poet behind "A Witness Tree" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943: 2 wds. |
| 47% | PHILIPPMEYER | 12 | 46-Across novelist whose novel "The Son" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (2 wds.) |
| 46% | BRUCEDESILVA | 12 | Novelist whose "Rogue Island" won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2 wds.) |
| 46% | JASONMATTHEWS | 13 | Novelist whose "Red Sparrow" won the 2014 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2 wds.) |
| 46% | THEWILDIRIS | 11 | Collection by 36-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 (3 wds.) |
| 46% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 46% | MIKETROUT | 9 | Center fielder for the Angels who won his third American League MVP award in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 46% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Novelist whose "The Institute" won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror (2 wds.) |
| 46% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 46% | OFA | 3 | "Half ___ Yellow Sun," novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 45% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |