| 100% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber |
| 95% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber (anagram of "dean") |
| 90% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper |
| 89% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning ___ Ferber who authored "Show Boat" |
| 76% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ferber |
| 76% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author James |
| 76% | BOO | 3 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine ___ |
| 70% | KAI | 3 | '06 Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Bird |
| 70% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 67% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning novelist James ___ |
| 66% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer-winning author ___ Ferber who wrote "So Big" |
| 66% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 64% | ART | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist ___ Spiegelman who created "Maus" |
| 63% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 63% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 61% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 61% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 61% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 58% | SOBIG | 5 | 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for Edna Ferber |
| 56% | AGEE | 4 | Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer |
| 56% | WIT | 3 | Pulitzer Prize-winning play |
| 56% | EBERT | 5 | Pulitzer Prize-winning critic |
| 55% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 55% | AIKEN | 5 | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad |
| 55% | CARLSAGAN | 9 | Pulitzer Prize-winning US astronomer |
| 55% | WILKERSON | 9 | Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel |
| 55% | OLDS | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon ___ |
| 54% | AGEE | 4 | Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958 |
| 54% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Author whose only published novel won a Pulitzer |
| 54% | IRA | 3 | Pulitzer Prize-winning radio host Glass |