| 100% | TONI | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for Beloved, __ Morrison |
| 63% | TOOLE | 5 | Pulitzer Prize winner for “A Confederacy of Dunces” |
| 62% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for "A Death in the Family" |
| 62% | SOBIG | 5 | 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for Edna Ferber |
| 62% | ERDRICH | 7 | 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for “The Night Watchman” |
| 60% | INGE | 4 | William, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for the Broadway play "Picnic" |
| 59% | NORMAN | 6 | Marsha, 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama for the play " 'night, Mother" |
| 56% | HAMILTON | 8 | 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner |
| 56% | ASTREETCARNAMEDDESIRE | 21 | 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner |
| 56% | LAMAR | 5 | 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner Kendrick |
| 55% | UPDIKE | 6 | Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner John |
| 54% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Beloved" |
| 53% | ODIST | 5 | 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner Sharon Olds, for one |
| 53% | DISGRACED | 9 | 2012 Ayad Akhtar play; 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner |
| 52% | ZATURENSKA | 10 | Marya —, 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner for volume Cold Morning Sky |
| 52% | WILSON | 6 | August —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for The Piano Lesson and Fences |
| 52% | ANGLEOF | 7 | & 21A 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| 52% | THECOLOR | 8 | & 17A 1982 novel by Alice Walker; 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| 51% | AKINS | 5 | Zoe —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for 1935 stage play The Old Maid |
| 51% | THREETALL | 9 | & 13A 1991 stage play by Edward Albee; 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner |
| 51% | ALBEE | 5 | Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama |
| 50% | JHUMPA | 6 | With 27-Across, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner who wrote 17-Across and 36-Across |
| 49% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer prize winner Harper |
| 49% | ISABEL | 6 | Pulitzer Prize winner Wilkerson |
| 49% | ALS | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton |
| 49% | NYT | 3 | Winner of over 125 Pulitzer Prizes, for short |
| 49% | LIN | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winner ___-Manuel Miranda |