| 100% | WELTY | 5 | Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 65% | WELTY | 5 | Pulitzer winner for “The Optimist’s Daughter” |
| 64% | WELTY | 5 | Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 60% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | WELTY | 5 | Pulitzer-winning writer of "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 53% | WELTY | 5 | "The Optimist's Daughter" author |
| 52% | EUDORA | 6 | "The Optimist's Daughter" Pulitzer winner Welty |
| 52% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 51% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 50% | MIA | 3 | "Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life" author Hamm |
| 49% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 49% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 48% | CRUZ | 4 | Nilo —, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics |
| 48% | 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 |
| 47% | EUDORA | 6 | & 19D US author of 1972 novel The Optimist's Daughter |
| 47% | EUDORA | 6 | & 3D US author of 1972 novel The Optimist's Daughter |
| 47% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 47% | SARA | 4 | Teasdale who won the Pulitzer for "Love Songs" |
| 46% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 46% | LAMAR | 5 | Rapper/producer who won the 2018 Pulitzer for Music |
| 46% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 46% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 45% | EUDORAWELTY | 11 | Mississippi-born author of "The Optimist's Daughter": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ARROWSMITH | 10 | 1925 novel for which the author declined a Pulitzer Prize |
| 45% | MACLEISH | 8 | His "J.B." won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 45% | DAMN | 4 | Kendrick Lamar album that won the Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 45% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 44% | MCPHEE | 6 | John who won a Pulitzer for “Annals of the Former World” |
| 44% | OLIO | 4 | Tyehimba Jess' book that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |