| 100% | MAMET | 5 | David ___, American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 |
| 66% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 |
| 56% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | American poet behind "A Witness Tree" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943: 2 wds. |
| 56% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 56% | OLEN | 4 | "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" author Robert ___ Butler who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 |
| 55% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 55% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 55% | MAMET | 5 | David —, playwright whose Glengarry Glen Ross won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 |
| 55% | DARIOFO | 7 | Italian playwright who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 53% | PEARLSBUCK | 10 | American writer who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (3 wds.) |
| 53% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 53% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American writer who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 53% | OLDS | 4 | Writer Sharon who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry |
| 52% | ALBEE | 5 | Edward ___, American playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes for three of his plays |
| 52% | LENO | 4 | Jay who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014 |
| 51% | HARRY | 5 | ___ Markowitz, American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 |
| 51% | ANNAQUINDLEN | 12 | "One True Thing," 14-Across, and 26-Across/29-Across novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 (2 wds.) |
| 51% | LENO | 4 | Jay ___, TV host who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014 |
| 50% | LORNEMICHAELS | 13 | "SNL" producer who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2004: 2 wds. |
| 48% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ALISON | 6 | Lurie who won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “Foreign Affairs” |
| 48% | WILLFERRELL | 11 | "Elf" actor and "Saturday Night Live" star who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2011: 2 wds. |
| 47% | JAMESPALLISON | 13 | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| 47% | NORMAN | 6 | ___ Ernest Borlaug, American agronomist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 |
| 47% | SHALES | 6 | Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work |
| 47% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 47% | ONEILL | 6 | Eugene ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 |
| 47% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 47% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ARTHURASHKIN | 12 | American scientist who won one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on optical tweezers: 2 wds. |