| 100% | IRIS | 4 | Murdoch who received the 1978 Booker Prize for "The Sea, the Sea" |
| 85% | IRIS | 4 | Novelist Murdoch who won the 1978 Booker Prize for "The Sea, the Sea" |
| 50% | ALAN | 4 | Hollinghurst who won the 2004 Booker Prize for “The Line of Beauty” |
| 50% | ELEANORCATTON | 13 | Canadian author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Luminaries": 2 wds. |
| 49% | IAN | 3 | English author ___ McEwan who won the Man Booker Prize for his novel "Amsterdam" |
| 48% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 47% | MARGARET | 8 | ___ Atwood, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" |
| 46% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for "Life of Pi" |
| 46% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 45% | FLANAGAN | 8 | Richard ___, author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" |
| 44% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day": 2 wds. |
| 43% | CORAZONAQUINO | 13 | Former Philippine president who received the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding in 1996: 2 wds. |
| 43% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | Former South African president who received the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding in 1993: 2 wds. |
| 43% | THENICEAND | 10 | & 14D 1968 novel by Iris Murdoch nominated for the 1969 Booker Prize |
| 43% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 43% | OKRI | 4 | Ben who won a Booker Prize for "The Famished Road" |
| 42% | ANGELA | 6 | With 33-Across, Germany's only female chancellor who received the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding in 2018 |
| 42% | VINCE | 5 | Environmental journalist Gaia ___ who was the first woman to win the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books |
| 42% | DOVE | 4 | Rita who was the second African-American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 41% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" and "The Testaments": 2 wds. |
| 41% | OLDS | 4 | Sharon ___, modern poet known for the collection "Stag's Leap" who has received the Pulitzer Prize |
| 40% | HILARYMANTEL | 12 | English writer who has won two Man Booker Prizes for her novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up The Bodies": 2 wds. |
| 40% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Tibetan who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 |
| 40% | DYLAN | 5 | Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 40% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 40% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 40% | SHAW | 4 | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| 39% | BANVILLE | 8 | John —, author of 2005 Man Booker Prize winner The Sea |
| 39% | TAGORE | 6 | Indian poet who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 39% | FEY | 3 | Tina who won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor |