| UPDIKE | Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner John |
| WILLIAMS | Tennessee -; two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist whose plays include A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (8) |
| THECOLOR | See 201982 novel by Alice Walker; 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| THECOLORPURPLE | 1982 novel by Alice Walker; 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| ANGLEOF | & 21A 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| GILEAD | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 2005, this was Marilynne Robinson's second published novel |
| PURPLE | 1982 novel by Alice Walker; 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (3,5,6) |
| REPOSE | 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (5,2,6) |
| VERNONGOD | and 6dn, DBC Pierre novel; 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winner |
| STATE | see 8ac, V S Naipaul novel; 1971 Booker Prize for Fiction winner |
| INAFREE | and 17dn, V S Naipaul novel; 1971 Booker Prize for Fiction winner |
| LITTLE | see 5dn, DBC Pierre novel; 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winner |
| JEFFMACNELLY | Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who passed away in June |
| ARTHURKROCK | Four-time Pulitzer Prize columnist |
| BENET | Two-time Pulitzer author |
| RESTON | Two-time Pulitzer-winning journalist |
| NASHVILLEWILLIAMS | Two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright |
| ANN | 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner Patchett |
| DIVINERS | 1974 Governor General's Award for Fiction winner, The ___ (Classic novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence) |
| TINFLUTE | The ___ ___ (Gabrielle Roy novel, 1947 Governor-General's Annual Literary Award for Fiction winner) |
