| 100% | NANS | 4 | Authors Talese (and Senior Vice President of Doubleday) and Robertson (Pulitzer winner of '83) |
| 30% | JOE | 3 | & 4D 47th Vice President and 46th President of the United States |
| 30% | ROBINSON | 8 | Marilynne —, author of 2004 novel Gilead; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | STEPHENIEMEYER | 14 | "Twilight" author and winner of a National Merit Scholarship in 1992: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 29% | ASTRANGELOOP | 12 | Winner of Best Musical at the 75th Tony Awards, and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 28% | ANSTEY | 6 | F —, author of novels The Tinted Venus and Vice Versa |
| 28% | ANSTEY | 6 | F —, English author of novels The Tinted Venus and Vice Versa |
| 28% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" Pulitzer winner and 1981 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2 wds. |
| 28% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 28% | ANSTEY | 6 | F —, English author of the novels The Tinted Venus and Vice Versa |
| 28% | ANSTEY | 6 | F -, English author of the novels The Tinted Venus and Vice Versa |
| 28% | JARED | 5 | ___ Diamond, author of the 1998 Pulitzer-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" |
| 28% | ERDRICH | 7 | Louise ___, Pulitzer-winning author of "The Night Watchman" and "The Mighty Red" |
| 27% | WILSON | 6 | Woodrow ___, 28th President of the U.S. and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was born in December |
| 27% | CHENEY | 6 | Vice president between Gore and Biden |
| 27% | GORE | 4 | Vice president between Quayle and Cheney |
| 27% | BIDEN | 5 | Vice president between Cheney and Pence |
| 27% | SPIRO | 5 | Vice president between Hubert and Gerald |
| 27% | TONYKUSHNER | 11 | "Angels in America" Pulitzer winner and 2005 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | "The Shipping News" Pulitzer winner and 2007 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2 wds. |
| 27% | PENCE | 5 | Vice president after Biden and before Harris |
| 27% | AGEE | 4 | Posthumous Pulitzer winner of 1958 |
| 26% | EANNIEPROULX | 12 | Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning author of “The Shipping News” (who later dropped her first initial) |
| 26% | RONANFARROW | 11 | Noted Pulitzer winner of 2018 (6) |
| 26% | DICKCHENEY | 10 | White House Chief of Staff for Ford (and later vice president): 2 wds. |
| 26% | KAMALAHARRIS | 12 | US vice president and #3 on Forbes's 2020 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women: 2 wds. |
| 26% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | African-American author of "Between the World and Me," winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction: 2 wds. |
| 26% | ROREM | 5 | Ned, who composed "Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra", first played in '75 and winner of the Pulitzer in '76 |
| 26% | EXEC | 4 | Senior vice president or chief financial officer, for short |