American author whose novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (6,5) Crossword Clue

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% EUDORAWELTY American author whose novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (6,5) (11)
75% DRAMA Pulitzer Prize category (5) Wall Street Journal Jan 8, 2026
67% THESHIPPINGNEWS 1993 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize (15) Wall Street Journal Mar 4, 2016
67% HARPERLEE Author whose only published novel won a Pulitzer (9)
67% ASMITH 1925 novel whose author refused the Pulitzer Prize (6)
64% UPBEAT Optimistic (6) Newsday Dec 31, 2025
64% HOPES Is optimistic (5) Commuter Dec 22, 2025
64% WELTY Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for "The Optimist's Daughter" (5) New York Times Mar 11, 2025
64% ELIZABETHSTROUT American author whose novel Olive Kitteridge won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (9,6) (15)
64% GOODEARTH Pulitzer Prize novel, with "The" (9)
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