| 100% | DAVEEGGERS | 10 | Author whose children's book "The Eyes and the Impossible" won the Newbery Medal in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 67% | KWAMEALEXANDER | 14 | Author whose children's book "The Crossover" won the Newbery Medal in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 55% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Author whose YA novel "The Graveyard Book" won the Newbery Medal in 2009: 2 wds. |
| 54% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | English author and screenwriter whose work "The Graveyard Book" won him the Newbery and Carnegie medals: 2 wds. |
| 52% | SCOTTODELL | 10 | Writer whose children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins" won a Newbery Medal in 1961 (2 wds.) |
| 46% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 44% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 43% | LOISLOWRY | 9 | Children's author born March 20, 1937, who wrote the Newbery Medal-winning novel "The Giver" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | ROALDDAHL | 9 | Author of the children's book "James and the Giant Peach": 2 wds. |
| 41% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 41% | BERNARDMALAMUD | 14 | Author whose works "The Magic Barrel" and "The Fixer" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 41% | PHILIPROTH | 10 | Author whose works "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Sabbath's Theater" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 41% | FINDINGWINNIE | 13 | Children's book about the bear that inspired A.A. Milne by Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall that won the 2016 Caldecott Medal (2 wds.) |
| 39% | ANNAMAZZOLA | 11 | Author whose novel "The Unseeing" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| 38% | LOISLOWRY | 9 | Author of the children's book "The Giver": 2 wds. |
| 38% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author who received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 38% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 38% | DALECARNEGIE | 12 | Author of the self-help book "How to Win Friends and Influence People": 2 wds. |
| 37% | CONNIEWILLIS | 12 | Sci-fi author whose 2010 two-volume novel "Blackout/All Clear" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Author of the children's book "Superfudge": 2 wds. |
| 37% | JOHNUPDIKE | 10 | "Rabbit, Run" author who received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in 2007: 2 wds. |
| 37% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 37% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Children's author whose imagery inspired the lyrics of 14-/29-Across: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ERICCARLE | 9 | Author of the children's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar": 2 wds. |
| 37% | JOHNCROWLEY | 11 | Author whose short story "Spring Break" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Short Story category: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JASONREYNOLDS | 13 | Author whose novel "Long Way Down" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Young Adult category: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ANNLECKIE | 9 | Sci-fi author whose 2013 novel "Ancillary Justice" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 37% | GREGLOUGANIS | 12 | Openly gay diver who won gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 37% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | "Between the World and Me" author who won a "genius grant" in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 37% | BENJAMINSPOCK | 13 | "Baby and Child Care" author who competed in rowing at the 1924 Olympics: 2 wds. |