| 100% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | Author whose YA novel "The Graveyard Book" won the Newbery Medal in 2009: 2 wds. |
| 66% | KWAMEALEXANDER | 14 | Author whose children's book "The Crossover" won the Newbery Medal in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 61% | DAVEEGGERS | 10 | Author whose children's book "The Eyes and the Impossible" won the Newbery Medal in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 61% | NEILGAIMAN | 10 | English author and screenwriter whose work "The Graveyard Book" won him the Newbery and Carnegie medals: 2 wds. |
| 56% | SCOTTODELL | 10 | Writer whose children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins" won a Newbery Medal in 1961 (2 wds.) |
| 49% | JASONREYNOLDS | 13 | Author whose novel "Long Way Down" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Young Adult category: 2 wds. |
| 49% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ANNAMAZZOLA | 11 | Author whose novel "The Unseeing" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| 45% | ANNLECKIE | 9 | Sci-fi author whose 2013 novel "Ancillary Justice" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 43% | JOHNCROWLEY | 11 | Author whose short story "Spring Break" won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Short Story category: 2 wds. |
| 43% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 42% | LOISLOWRY | 9 | Children's author born March 20, 1937, who wrote the Newbery Medal-winning novel "The Giver" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 40% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | Novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison (birthday today) which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953: 2 wds. |
| 40% | CHARLESYU | 9 | Writer whose novel "Interior Chinatown" won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | Writer whose novel "Trust Exercise" won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 40% | CONNIEWILLIS | 12 | Sci-fi author whose 2010 two-volume novel "Blackout/All Clear" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
| 40% | TESSGUNTY | 9 | Writer whose novel "The Rabbit Hutch" won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 39% | SIGRIDNUNEZ | 11 | "Salvation City" author whose "The Friend" won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 39% | DOUGLASSTUART | 13 | Scottish writer whose debut novel, "Shuggie Bain," won the 2020 Booker Prize (2 wds.) |
| 39% | LOOKBOTHWAYS | 12 | 29-Across novel subtitled "A Tale Told in Ten Blocks" that won the Carnegie Medal in 2021 (3 wds.) |
| 38% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Writer whose novel "Hell of a Book" won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BERNARDMALAMUD | 14 | Author whose works "The Magic Barrel" and "The Fixer" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 38% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author honored with the National Humanities Medal in 2000: 2 wds. |
| 38% | EOINCOLFER | 10 | Best-selling author who wrote the eight books in the "Artemis Fowl" series: 2 wds. |
| 38% | PHILIPROTH | 10 | "American Pastoral" author honored with the National Humanities Medal in 2010: 2 wds. |
| 37% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | Sci-fi author whose 2017 novel "The Stone Sky" won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 3 wds. |
| 37% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 37% | EMMATHOMPSON | 12 | Oscar-winning actress who plays P.L. Travers, author of the novel "Mary Poppins," in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JOANDIDION | 10 | "The Year of Magical Thinking" author honored with the National Humanities Medal in 2012: 2 wds. |