| 100% | TARTT | 5 | Donna who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch" |
| 61% | ALISON | 6 | Lurie who won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “Foreign Affairs” |
| 60% | CORMACMCCARTHY | 14 | "The Road" Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote 19-Across, 46-Across, and the 2022 novel "The Passenger" (2 wds.) |
| 59% | THEGOLDFINCH | 12 | Donna Tartt novel that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize (2 wds.) |
| 57% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer who wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” |
| 55% | TARTT | 5 | Novelist Donna, who wrote The Goldfinch |
| 51% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 51% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 51% | MAMET | 5 | David ___, American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 |
| 51% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 50% | SHALES | 6 | Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work |
| 50% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 15-Across, 29-Across, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Night Watchman" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature |
| 50% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 50% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 50% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 |
| 50% | EDEL | 4 | Leon ___ who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on Henry James |
| 49% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 49% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 49% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 49% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 49% | THEGOOD | 7 | & 19A 1931 novel by Pearl Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year |
| 49% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 49% | LESS | 4 | Andrew Sean Greer novel that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize |
| 49% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 49% | LONESOMEDOVE | 12 | Western novel that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize: 2 wds. |
| 49% | OLDS | 4 | Writer Sharon who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry |
| 49% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |