| 100% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 63% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 62% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 51% | DONNATARTT | 10 | Mississippi novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 (2 wds.) |
| 51% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 50% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Playwright whose "Glengarry Glen Ross" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 50% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 50% | SAMSHEPARD | 10 | Playwright whose "Buried Child" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 49% | ROAD | 4 | "The ___," 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy featuring an unnamed protagonist that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 49% | DIAZ | 4 | Hernan whose novel “Trust,” which tells the story of a Depression-era financier through four linked narratives, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (May, 2023) |
| 49% | AUGUSTWILSON | 12 | Playwright whose "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| 48% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 48% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 47% | JOSHUACOHEN | 11 | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Netanyahus” (May, 2022) |
| 44% | CHARLESYU | 9 | Writer whose novel "Interior Chinatown" won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 44% | THENICKELBOYS | 13 | Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize (3 wds.) |
| 44% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," Louise Erdrich novel that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | COPPERHEAD | 10 | "Demon ___," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | THESHIPPING | 11 | & 22D E Annie Proulx novel that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Novelist whose "Empire Falls" won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 43% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur ___, 20th-century playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 |
| 43% | LINE | 4 | "A Chorus ___," Broadway musical that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976 |
| 43% | JHUMPALAHIRI | 12 | Short-story writer whose "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 43% | PIRANESI | 8 | 2020 Susanna Clarke novel featuring themes of magical realism that won the Women's Prize for Fiction |
| 43% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |