| 100% | ZWILICH | 7 | Ellen —, US composer whose Symphony no 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 37% | STUDSTERKEL | 11 | US author and broadcaster whose work The Good War: An Oral History of World War II won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| 37% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 34% | ROETHKE | 7 | Theodore —, writer whose volume The Waking won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 34% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 33% | LIGHT | 5 | "All the ___ We Cannot See," Anthony Doerr novel that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 33% | JHUMPALAHIRI | 12 | Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 33% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Novelist whose "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 33% | TSS | 3 | Nan C. Robertson won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her account of her struggle with this medical condition (abbr.) |
| 31% | DAMN | 4 | Kendrick Lamar album that won the Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 31% | DAMN | 4 | 2017 Kendrick Lamar album that won the Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 31% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 30% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 30% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 30% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 30% | MACLEISH | 8 | His "J.B." won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 30% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 30% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 30% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 30% | OLIO | 4 | Tyehimba Jess' book that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 30% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 29% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," Louise Erdrich novel that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | COPPERHEAD | 10 | "Demon ___," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | AUGUSTWILSON | 12 | Playwright whose "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| 29% | KENDRICKLAMAR | 13 | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music |
| 29% | THESHIPPING | 11 | & 22D E Annie Proulx novel that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 29% | GMAN | 4 | Book about J. Edgar Hoover that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography |