| 100% | BENET | 5 | Poet who won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God" |
| 55% | WHARTON | 7 | Edith who won a Pulitzer for The Age of Innocence |
| 54% | TRACY | 5 | ___ K. Smith, poet who won a Pulitzer for "Life on Mars" |
| 52% | MCPHEE | 6 | John who won a Pulitzer for “Annals of the Former World” |
| 52% | MCPHEE | 6 | Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" |
| 52% | ANNESEXTON | 10 | Poet who won a 1967 Pulitzer for "Live or Die" |
| 50% | AGAR | 4 | Herbert who won a Pulitzer for "The People's Choice" |
| 50% | MARC | 4 | Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures" |
| 49% | IRA | 3 | Songwriter Gershwin who won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1932 musical "Of Thee I Sing" |
| 48% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Writer, actor, and director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play "Buried Child" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 46% | ALICE | 5 | Novelist Walker who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| 46% | TERRANCE | 8 | Poet Hayes who won a National Book Award for the collection “Lighthead” |
| 46% | LURIE | 5 | Alison who won a Pulitzer for "Foreign Affairs" |
| 46% | ROREM | 5 | Composer who won a Pulitzer for "Air Music" |
| 45% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer for "Buried Child" |
| 45% | MAMET | 5 | Playwright who won a Pulitzer for Glengarry Glen Ross |
| 45% | MENOTTI | 7 | Italian-American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Saint of Bleecker Street" |
| 44% | EDEL | 4 | Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James |
| 44% | JEFFDANIELS | 11 | Actor who won a 2013 Emmy for playing Will McAvoy, the anchor and managing editor on 37-Across: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 44% | EDER | 4 | Richard ___ who won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
| 44% | UPTON | 5 | Sinclair who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | LEONARDS | 8 | Pitts who won the 2004 Pulitzer for Commentary and Roberts who costarred in "Drumline: A New Beat" |
| 44% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature |
| 43% | SAM | 3 | Playwright Shepard who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child" |
| 43% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 43% | IRA | 3 | NPR host Glass who won a Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting |
| 42% | PERLE | 5 | George who won a 1986 Pulitzer for music |
| 41% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer-winning author who was also a film critic for Time magazine |