| RICHARDPOWERS | American novelist whose novel The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| BANVILLE | John ___, Irish novelist whose novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 |
| TREES | Subjects of the 2019 Pulitzer-winning novel "The Overstory" |
| CANOPY | From Greek for "mosquito", word for a net over a bed originally, later for various overhead things, including an awning, parachute, parasol, the sky or a tree's crowning overstory (6) |
| NABOKOV | Russian novelist whose novel, Lolita, was published in 1955 (7) |
| KAZUOISHIGURO | Japanese-born British novelist whose novels include the Booker-prize-winning The Remains of the Day |
| COLSON | Whitehead whose novel "The Nickel Boys" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| MITCHELL | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for Gone With The Wind (8) |
| BELOVED | Novel by Toni Morrison that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 |
| UPTON | -- Sinclair, writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 (5) |
| EUDORAWELTY | American author whose novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (6,5) |
| ANNIE | - Proulx, writer whose novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (5) |
| THEREIVERS | ___: A Reminiscence the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| DOERR | Anthony ___, American author whose 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| AUGUSTWILSON | Playwright whose Fences and The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| ANNAMAZZOLA | Author whose novel The Unseeing won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| SAMSHEPARD | Playwright whose Buried Child won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979: 2 wds. |
| DAVIDMAMET | Playwright whose Gelngarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984: 2 wds. |
| DIAZ | 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) |
| JACKMILES | American author whose first book, God: A Biography, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996 |
