| 100% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 85% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 78% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day": 2 wds. |
| 78% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 72% | ELEANORCATTON | 13 | Canadian author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Luminaries": 2 wds. |
| 70% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 64% | CHARLESYU | 9 | Author who won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction for "Interior Chinatown": 2 wds. |
| 64% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | Author who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for "Trust Exercise": 2 wds. |
| 64% | TESSGUNTY | 9 | Author who won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Rabbit Hutch": 2 wds. |
| 63% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for "Hell of a Book": 2 wds. |
| 56% | MARGARET | 8 | ___ Atwood, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" |
| 56% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 56% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian short story author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| 54% | FLANAGAN | 8 | Richard ___, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" |
| 54% | DORISLESSING | 12 | British author of "The Golden Notebook" who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature: 2 wds. |
| 53% | LORNEMICHAELS | 13 | "SNL" producer who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2004: 2 wds. |
| 51% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 51% | WILLFERRELL | 11 | "Elf" actor and "Saturday Night Live" star who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2011: 2 wds. |
| 51% | MAHERSHALAALI | 13 | "Hidden Figures" actor who won the 2017 and 2019 Oscars for Best Supporting Actor ("Moonlight" and "Green Book"): 2 wds. |
| 51% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 51% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Writer, actor, and director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play "Buried Child" (2 wds.) |
| 51% | HILARYMANTEL | 12 | English writer who has won two Man Booker Prizes for her novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up The Bodies": 2 wds. |
| 51% | STEPHENKING | 11 | "Carrie" author who won a 1996 O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in the Black Suit": 2 wds. |
| 50% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 50% | WILLIAMSTYRON | 13 | Novelist who won the National Book Award for Fiction for 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 50% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 50% | KATHRYNBIGELOW | 14 | Woman who won the Best Director Oscar for 2009's "The Hurt Locker": 2 wds. |
| 50% | NICOLEKIDMAN | 12 | Australian actress who won the Best Actress Oscar for 2002's "The Hours": 2 wds. |
| 50% | CATEBLANCHETT | 13 | Australian actress who won the Best Actress Oscar for 2013's "Blue Jasmine": 2 wds. |
| 49% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | 18-Across and 32-Across novelist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (2 wds.) |