| WELTY | Eudora ___, Pulitzer winner for "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| DOERR | Anthony __, Pulitzer winner for "All the Light We Cannot See" |
| STEGNER | Wallace ___, Pulitzer winner for "Angle of Repose" |
| EUDORAWELTY | "The Optimist's Daughter" Pulitzer winner, 1973 |
| EUDORA | "The Optimist's Daughter" Pulitzer winner Welty |
| NOVELLA | Welty's "The Optimist's Daughter," e.g. |
| AUGUSTWILSON | Pulitzer winner for the play 'Fences' |
| TERKEL | 1985 Pulitzer winner for "The Good War" |
| RUSSO | Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" |
| PROULX | Pulitzer winner for "The Shipping News" |
| DIAZ | Junot ___, 2008 Pulitzer winner for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" |
| TARTT | Donna ___, 2014 Pulitzer winner for "The Goldfinch" |
| GWENDOLYNBROOKS | 1950 Pulitzer winner for the poetry collection "Annie Allen" |
| ADJUSTS | "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader ___ the sails": John Maxwell (7) |
| OPRAH | She voiced Eudora in "The Princess and the Frog" |
| AKINS | Zoe ___, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for 1935 stage play The Old Maid (5) |
| HALFFULL | The way the optimist sees the glass? |
| GRAU | Shirley Ann ___ Pulitzer-winning author of The Keepers of the House |
| ALS | Hilton _, Pulitzer-winning critic for The New Yorker |
| ERDRICH | Louise ___, Pulitzer-winning author of "The Night Watchman" and "The Mighty Red" |
