| 100% | ALISON | 6 | Lurie who won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “Foreign Affairs” |
| 60% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 59% | SHALES | 6 | Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work |
| 59% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 59% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 59% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 |
| 58% | IRA | 3 | Songwriter Gershwin who won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1932 musical "Of Thee I Sing" |
| 58% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 57% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Writer, actor, and director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play "Buried Child" (2 wds.) |
| 56% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 56% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 56% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 55% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 55% | ROAD | 4 | "The ___," 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy featuring an unnamed protagonist that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 55% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 55% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 54% | ANNAQUINDLEN | 12 | "One True Thing," 14-Across, and 26-Across/29-Across novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 (2 wds.) |
| 54% | ALICE | 5 | Novelist Walker who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| 54% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 54% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 53% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 52% | IAN | 3 | English author ___ McEwan who won the Man Booker Prize for his novel "Amsterdam" |
| 51% | TARTT | 5 | Donna who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch" |
| 51% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 51% | DIAZ | 4 | Hernan whose novel “Trust,” which tells the story of a Depression-era financier through four linked narratives, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (May, 2023) |
| 51% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 51% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 51% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," Louise Erdrich novel that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |