| 100% | ROREM | 5 | Composer who won a Pulitzer for "Air Music" |
| 72% | PERLE | 5 | George who won a 1986 Pulitzer for music |
| 71% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 65% | MANCINI | 7 | Henry —, composer who won a Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Oscar for Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| 64% | LURIE | 5 | Alison who won a Pulitzer for "Foreign Affairs" |
| 63% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer for "Buried Child" |
| 63% | MAMET | 5 | Playwright who won a Pulitzer for Glengarry Glen Ross |
| 63% | AGAR | 4 | Herbert who won a Pulitzer for "The People's Choice" |
| 63% | MARC | 4 | Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures" |
| 63% | WHARTON | 7 | Edith who won a Pulitzer for The Age of Innocence |
| 62% | BENET | 5 | Poet who won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God" |
| 62% | EDEL | 4 | Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James |
| 62% | MCPHEE | 6 | John who won a Pulitzer for “Annals of the Former World” |
| 62% | TRACY | 5 | ___ K. Smith, poet who won a Pulitzer for "Life on Mars" |
| 61% | MCPHEE | 6 | Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" |
| 61% | EDER | 4 | Richard ___ who won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
| 61% | UPTON | 5 | Sinclair who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 60% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child" |
| 60% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 59% | ALICE | 5 | Novelist Walker who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| 59% | IRA | 3 | NPR host Glass who won a Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting |
| 57% | ANNESEXTON | 10 | Poet who won a 1967 Pulitzer for "Live or Die" |
| 57% | IRA | 3 | Songwriter Gershwin who won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1932 musical "Of Thee I Sing" |
| 56% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Writer, actor, and director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play "Buried Child" (2 wds.) |
| 55% | LAMAR | 5 | Rapper/producer who won the 2018 Pulitzer for Music |
| 55% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 55% | DAVID | 5 | ___ Bowie, English singer who won a Grammy Award for best music video in 1985 |
| 53% | CAHN | 4 | Sammy —, lyricist who won a Best Music, Original Song Oscar for Three Coins in a Fountain |
| 53% | SPIKE | 5 | Jonze who won a Grammy Award for directing Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" music video |
| 52% | ROREM | 5 | Pulitzer-winning composer Ned ___, who made "Air Music" |