| 100% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Novelist whose "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 60% | JHUMPALAHIRI | 12 | Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 57% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," 15-Across, and 47-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 53% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 48% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | "The Executioner's Song" novelist who won Pulitzer Prizes for both Fiction and General Nonfiction: 2 wds. |
| 47% | EANNIEPROULX | 12 | 17-Across and 38-Across novelist who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Shipping News" (3 wds.) |
| 47% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 46% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 45% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 43% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 42% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 42% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 42% | OFA | 3 | "Half ___ Yellow Sun," novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 42% | AUGUSTWILSON | 12 | Playwright whose "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| 42% | MARGARETATWOOD | 14 | Novelist whose "The Testaments" won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 42% | DORISLESSING | 12 | British author of "The Golden Notebook" who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature: 2 wds. |
| 41% | LARRYMCMURTRY | 13 | American novelist whose 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove" won the Pulitzer Prize and whose six novels were adapted into films: 2 wds. |
| 41% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Writer whose novel "Hell of a Book" won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 41% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 41% | RICKRIORDAN | 11 | Novelist whose "The Trials of Apollo" won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Middle Grade & Children's (2 wds.) |
| 41% | SALLYROONEY | 11 | Novelist whose "Beautiful World, Where Are You" won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 41% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 40% | RICKRIORDAN | 11 | Novelist whose "Daughter of the Deep" won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Middle Grade & Children's (2 wds.) |
| 40% | JULIANBARNES | 12 | English author who won the Man Booker Prize for "The Sense of an Ending": 2 wds. |
| 40% | 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) |
| 40% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 40% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 40% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |