| 100% | POOLE | 5 | Ernest —, author of 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel His Family |
| 54% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 45% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber (anagram of "dean") |
| 44% | JOHNWAIN | 8 | Author of 1982 Whitbread Prize-winning novel Young Shoulders |
| 44% | ROBINSON | 8 | Marilynne —, author of 2004 novel Gilead; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 43% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 43% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper |
| 42% | IAN | 3 | English author ___ McEwan who won the Man Booker Prize for his novel "Amsterdam" |
| 41% | COLSON | 6 | ___ Whitehead, author of the 2017 Pulitzer-winning novel "The Underground Railroad" |
| 41% | DUHAMEL | 7 | Georges —, French author of 1918 novel Civilisation |
| 40% | TARKINGTON | 10 | Booth —, author of 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons |
| 40% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer ___, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" |
| 40% | HULME | 5 | Keri —, author of Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People |
| 39% | LIVELY | 6 | Penelope —, author of 1987 Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger |
| 39% | ANGLE | 5 | "___ of Repose" (Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Wallace Stegner) |
| 39% | ERICHSEGAL | 10 | Author of novels Doctors, Only Love and Prizes |
| 39% | ADIGA | 5 | Aravind —, author of 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger |
| 39% | JAMESAGEE | 9 | Pulitzer-winning author of A Death in the Family |
| 38% | GEETANJALISHREE | 15 | Author of the novel “Tomb of Sand,” about the journey of an eighty-year-old woman living in India, which won the International Booker Prize (May, 2022) |
| 38% | CELIE | 5 | Alice Walker's fictional character and protagonist from her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Color Purple" |
| 38% | WRIGHT | 6 | Doug —, author of Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning 2003 stage play I Am My Own Wife |
| 38% | ENRIGHT | 7 | Anne —, author of 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering |
| 38% | ALANSILLITOE | 12 | Author of novels A Man of His Time and Birthday |
| 38% | RAPHAEL | 7 | Frederic —, author of 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes |
| 38% | SEGAL | 5 | Erich —, author of novels Only Love and Prizes |
| 38% | TIDYMAN | 7 | Ernest —, author of 1970 novel Shaft |
| 38% | CRUZ | 4 | Nilo —, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics |
| 38% | DOYLE | 5 | Roddy —, author of 1993 Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 37% | BELOVED | 7 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison |
| 37% | PASTORAL | 8 | Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Roth, American __ |