| 100% | WELTY | 5 | Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 99% | WELTY | 5 | Pulitzer winner for “The Optimist’s Daughter” |
| 73% | EUDORA | 6 | "The Optimist's Daughter" Pulitzer winner Welty |
| 62% | GWENDOLYNBROOKS | 15 | 1950 Pulitzer winner for the poetry collection "Annie Allen" |
| 62% | RUSSO | 5 | Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" |
| 62% | KENNAN | 6 | Pulitzer winner for "Russia Leaves the War" |
| 61% | MICHENER | 8 | Pulitzer winner for "Tales of the South Pacific" |
| 61% | WELTY | 5 | Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| 61% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Pulitzer winner for "Sunday in the Park With George" |
| 58% | DOERR | 5 | Anthony __, Pulitzer winner for "All the Light We Cannot See" |
| 58% | LORETTAYOUNG | 12 | Best Actress winner for “The Farmer’s Daughter” |
| 58% | TERKEL | 6 | Pulitzer winner for ''The Good War'' |
| 58% | IRA | 3 | Berkow, shared Pulitzer winner for the NYT series "How Race Is Lived in America" (2001) |
| 55% | TERKEL | 6 | 1985 Pulitzer winner for "The Good War" |
| 55% | TARTT | 5 | Donna ___, 2014 Pulitzer winner for "The Goldfinch" |
| 54% | LINMANUELMIRANDA | 16 | Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 54% | WALLACESTEVENS | 14 | Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 54% | TARTT | 5 | Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 54% | BENET | 5 | Pulitzer winner for "John Brown's Body" |
| 53% | LATIMES | 7 | Winner of the Breaking News Reporting Pulitzer for 2016, briefly |
| 52% | ADA | 3 | Winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, ___ Louise Huxtable |
| 52% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for "A Death in the Family" |
| 52% | NAS | 3 | 2021 Grammy winner for the album "King's Disease" |
| 51% | DIAZ | 4 | Junot ___, 2008 Pulitzer winner for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" |
| 51% | NAS | 3 | 2021 Grammy winner for the rap album "King's Disease" |
| 51% | LESS | 4 | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 51% | KENDRICKLAMAR | 13 | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music |
| 51% | ALBEE | 5 | Pulitzer winner for "Seascape" |
| 51% | INGE | 4 | Pulitzer winner for "Picnic" |