| 100% | MACLEISH | 8 | His "J.B." won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 57% | FIORELLO | 8 | 1959 Broadway musical that won a Pulitzer Prize for drama |
| 54% | CRUZ | 4 | Nilo —, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics |
| 53% | HARVEY | 6 | 1944 Broadway play by Mary Chase that won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 52% | SHALES | 6 | Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work |
| 52% | GMAN | 4 | Book about J. Edgar Hoover that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography |
| 52% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 51% | RENT | 4 | One of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 51% | RENT | 4 | Seventh of 10 musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 51% | WILSON | 6 | August —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for The Piano Lesson and Fences |
| 51% | LINMANUELMIRANDA | 16 | Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 50% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 50% | AKINS | 5 | Zoe —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for 1935 stage play The Old Maid |
| 50% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 49% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 49% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 47% | LINE | 4 | "A Chorus ___," Broadway musical that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976 |
| 47% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 |
| 47% | ZINDEL | 6 | Paul —, author of 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
| 47% | ZINDEL | 6 | Paul -, author of 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
| 46% | BOHR | 4 | Niels who won the Nobel Prize for his model of the atom |
| 46% | NORMAN | 6 | Marsha, 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama for the play " 'night, Mother" |
| 46% | OLIO | 4 | Tyehimba Jess' book that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 45% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 45% | INGE | 4 | William —, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for play Picnic |
| 45% | HAMILTON | 8 | 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner |
| 45% | ASTREETCARNAMEDDESIRE | 21 | 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner |