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Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning MARCH and the international bestselling YEAR OF WONDERS

Tyler Cowen

Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of the wildly popular blog marginalrevolution.com

June Cross

Documentary filmmaker and author of SECRET DAUGHTER: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

Paul Dobransky, MD

Dating expert, author, and psychiatrist

Steve Ettlinger

Writer, editor, book producer, and author of TWINKIE, DECONSTRUCTED

Piero Ferrucci

Renowned psychotherapist

Ronald Florence

Historian and novelist

Deborah Ford

Founder and CEO of Grits, Inc.

Judy Gelman

Co-author of THE BOOK CLUB COOKBOOK and THE KIDS' BOOK CLUB BOOK

Elizabeth Gilbert

One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, 2008, and author of the New York Times bestseller EAT, PRAY, LOVE

Dave Isay

StoryCorps founder and editor of LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project

Joshua Kendall

Award-winning journalist and author of THE MAN WHO MADE LISTS: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

Lauren Kessler

Bestselling author of DANCING WITH ROSE: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

Ross King

New York Times bestselling author of BRUNELLESCHI’S DOME and MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING

Vicki Levy Krupp

Co-author of THE BOOK CLUB COOKBOOK and THE KIDS' BOOK CLUB BOOK

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin

Neuroscientist and Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communications at McGill University

David Lida

Journalist and author of FIRST STOP IN THE NEW WORLD: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century

Jacki Lyden

NPR Senior Correspondent

Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD

Author of THE HOW OF HAPPINESS and happiness researcher

Greg Mortenson

Founder of the Pennies for Peace program and co-author and subject of the #1 New York Times bestseller THREE CUPS OF TEA

John Perkins

Author of the New York Times bestseller CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN and THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

Daniel Pinchbeck

Pop psychedelic author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Mary Pipher

American Clinical Psychologist and author of the revolutionary bestseller REVIVING OPHELIA

Michael Pollan

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA and IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

Frances Richey

Poet and author of THE WARRIOR: A Mother's Story of a Son at War

Julie Salamon

Award-winning journalist, author, and critic

Renée Schultz

Co-author of THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER PROJECT and Marriage & Family Therapist

Dana Thomas

Author of DELUXE: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Adrian Tinniswood

Author of THE VERNEYS: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England

Susan Vreeland

Award-winning and bestselling author of GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE and THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA