| 100% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for "Hell of a Book": 2 wds. |
| 74% | CHARLESYU | 9 | Author who won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction for "Interior Chinatown": 2 wds. |
| 74% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | Author who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for "Trust Exercise": 2 wds. |
| 72% | TESSGUNTY | 9 | Author who won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Rabbit Hutch": 2 wds. |
| 68% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Writer whose novel "Hell of a Book" won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 61% | JAMESMCBRIDE | 12 | 15-Across and 47-Across writer who won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Good Lord Bird" (2 wds.) |
| 61% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | 15-Across and 33-Across writer who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel "Trust Exercise" (2 wds.) |
| 60% | RALPHELLISON | 12 | African-American author of "Invisible Man," winner of the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 60% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | “Trust Exercise” author who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction |
| 59% | JAMESMCBRIDE | 12 | African-American author of "The Good Lord Bird," winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 58% | SIGRIDNUNEZ | 11 | "Salvation City" author whose "The Friend" won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 56% | THEFRIEND | 9 | Book that won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, written by Sigrid Nunez: 2 wds. |
| 56% | RACHELMADDOW | 12 | MSNBC host who won a 2021 Grammy for the audiobook of her nonfiction book "Blowout": 2 wds. |
| 53% | SIGRIDNUNEZ | 11 | "The Vulnerables" novelist whose "The Friend" won a National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 53% | WILLIAMSTYRON | 13 | Novelist who won the National Book Award for Fiction for 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 53% | MARTINESPADA | 12 | Writer whose collection "Floaters" won the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry (2 wds.) |
| 53% | CHARLESYU | 9 | Writer whose novel "Interior Chinatown" won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 53% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | Writer whose novel "Trust Exercise" won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 53% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Mississippi novelist who is the only woman to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice (2 wds.) |
| 53% | TESSGUNTY | 9 | Writer whose novel "The Rabbit Hutch" won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 53% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 53% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day": 2 wds. |
| 52% | ALICIAKEYS | 10 | "Songs in A Minor" singer/songwriter who won the 2021 Audie Award for Narration by the Author for her memoir "More Myself" (2 wds.) |
| 52% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | African-American author of "Between the World and Me," winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction: 2 wds. |
| 51% | MALINDALO | 9 | Writer whose novel "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" won the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2 wds.) |
| 51% | LAURENGROFF | 11 | "Fates and Furies" author whose "Florida" was nominated for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 51% | DENIS | 5 | Novelist Johnson who won the National Book Award for Fiction for "Tree of Smoke" |
| 50% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 50% | JONATHANINDIA | 13 | Reds infielder who won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 50% | STEPHENKING | 11 | "Carrie" author who won a 1996 O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in the Black Suit": 2 wds. |