| 100% | MOORE | 5 | Her "Collected Poems" won the 1952 Pulitzer |
| 44% | MARGARET | 8 | ___ Mitchell, novelist whose only novel "Gone with the Wind" won her a Pulitzer and a National Book Award |
| 44% | NATALIEDIAZ | 11 | Author of the Pulitzer-winning collection “Postcolonial Love Poem” |
| 43% | PLATH | 5 | 1982 winner of a posthumous Pulitzer for her Collected Poems |
| 43% | SORROWSONG | 10 | Poem about the innocence of children by 49-Across in her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated collection "Next: New Poems" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | IAMACAMERA | 10 | Play for which Julie Harris won the 1952 Tony for Best Actress |
| 41% | SARA | 4 | Teasdale who won the Pulitzer for "Love Songs" |
| 41% | KATNISS | 7 | She wins the 74th Hunger Games |
| 40% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 40% | AMERICAN | 8 | An __ In Paris, won the Academy Awards in 1952 |
| 40% | MOORE | 5 | Poet Marianne who won a 1952 Pulitzer |
| 40% | ASBYATT | 7 | She won the Booker Prize for Possession |
| 40% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 40% | DAMN | 4 | Kendrick Lamar album that won the Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 40% | RESTON | 6 | James, journalist who won the Pulitzer in 1945 and 1957 |
| 40% | MAMET | 5 | David ___, American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 |
| 39% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 39% | IRENECARA | 9 | She won the 1983 Oscar for Best Song |
| 39% | CHLOEZHAO | 9 | She won the Best Director Oscar for Nomadland |
| 39% | ALISON | 6 | Lurie who won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “Foreign Affairs” |
| 39% | DAMN | 4 | 2017 Kendrick Lamar album that won the Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 39% | RENT | 4 | One of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 39% | RENT | 4 | Seventh of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 39% | OATES | 5 | She won the 1970 National Book Award for Fiction |
| 39% | RETTON | 6 | She won five medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics |
| 38% | RENT | 4 | Miusical that won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize |
| 38% | CELIE | 5 | Alice Walker's fictional character and protagonist from her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Color Purple" |
| 38% | TSS | 3 | Nan C. Robertson won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her account of her struggle with this medical condition (abbr.) |
| 38% | SHALES | 6 | Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work |