| 100% | ANNE | 4 | Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist Applebaum |
| 45% | KEARNS | 6 | Pulitzer-winning historian Doris ___ Goodwin |
| 45% | TURNER | 6 | Pulitzer-winning historian Frederick Jackson ___ |
| 42% | RENT | 4 | Jonathan Larson musical that won four Tonys and a Pulitzer |
| 42% | RODGERS | 7 | Richard who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer |
| 42% | NEWSDAY | 7 | Paper for which Murray Kempton and Jim Dwyer won Pulitzers |
| 42% | NEILS | 5 | Pulitzer-winning writer Sheehan and others |
| 42% | RAES | 4 | Pulitzer-winning poet Armantrout and others |
| 42% | HERSH | 5 | Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour |
| 42% | GENE | 4 | Pulitzer-winning journalist Weingarten |
| 42% | RESTON | 6 | Pulitzer-winning journalist James |
| 41% | LOWELL | 6 | Pulitzer-winning poet of 1947 and 1974 |
| 40% | LETTS | 5 | Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright Tracy |
| 39% | EDEL | 4 | Leon who won both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award in 1963 |
| 39% | AGEES | 5 | 1958 Pulitzer-winning novelist and family |
| 39% | ERNIEPYLE | 9 | 1944 Pulitzer-winning journalist |
| 38% | GWENIFILL | 9 | Late Peabody-winning journalist and newscaster |
| 38% | FROST | 5 | American poet Robert ___ who authored "The Road Not Taken" and won the Pulitzer four times |
| 37% | GODELESCHERBACH | 15 | 1980 Pulitzer-winning book filled with wordplay and paradoxes |
| 37% | CELIE | 5 | Alice Walker's fictional character and protagonist from her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Color Purple" |
| 36% | ROASTED | 7 | Criticised cook and journalist |
| 36% | GUARDED | 7 | Watched sentry and journalist |
| 36% | GRILLED | 7 | Interrogated cook and journalist |
| 35% | LOISLANE | 8 | Fictional Pulitzer-winning journalist in a 2006 film |
| 35% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 35% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
| 35% | RESTON | 6 | Two-time Pulitzer-winning journalist |
| 35% | ROREM | 5 | 1976 Pulitzer winning composer, Ned ___ |
| 35% | TEDS | 4 | Poet Hughes and journalist Koppel |
| 35% | CASHIERED | 9 | Teller and journalist get sacked |