| 100% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber (anagram of "dean") |
| 69% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber |
| 64% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper |
| 63% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning ___ Ferber who authored "Show Boat" |
| 63% | ANNIEPROULX | 11 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 54% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author James |
| 54% | BOO | 3 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine ___ |
| 52% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ferber |
| 52% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 52% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 50% | KAI | 3 | '06 Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Bird |
| 49% | POOLE | 5 | Ernest —, author of 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel His Family |
| 47% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning novelist James ___ |
| 47% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | Author who won the Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day": 2 wds. |
| 47% | EDNA | 4 | Pulitzer-winning author ___ Ferber who wrote "So Big" |
| 47% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 47% | GWENDOLYNBROOKS | 15 | Pulitzer-winning author of the quote |
| 47% | TARTT | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author of “The Goldfinch” |
| 47% | TARTT | 5 | Pulitzer-winning author of The Goldfinch |
| 47% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer ___, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" |
| 46% | STEINBECK | 9 | Nobel Prize-winning author of Of Mice and Men |
| 46% | BORISPASTERNAK | 14 | Nobel Prize-winning author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 46% | DONNA | 5 | Pulitzer-winning Tartt, author of “The Goldfinch” |
| 46% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Pulitzer-winning author of “The Night Watchman” |
| 45% | ART | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist ___ Spiegelman who created "Maus" |
| 45% | PHILIPROTH | 10 | Pulitzer-winning author of 1997's "American Pastoral" |
| 45% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 45% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 45% | GMAN | 4 | 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover |
| 44% | JAMESAGEE | 9 | Pulitzer-winning author of A Death in the Family |