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Sebastian Barry
Playwright, Poet, and Award-winning Author of The Secret Scripture and On Canaan's Side
Erica Bauermeister
Author of The School of Essential Ingredients and Joy for Beginners
David Benedictus
Author of Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the First Authorized Sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh
Sarah Blake
Author of the New York Times-bestselling The Postmistress
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Eleanor Brown
New York Times-bestselling Author of The Weird Sisters
Elizabeth Brundage
Author of A Stranger Like You
Harriet Scott Chessman
Author of Someone Not Really Her Mother and Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Catherine Chung
Author of Forgotten Country
Ana Marie Cox
Original Voice of the Political Blog Wonkette and Time Magazine Columnist
Ron Currie, Jr.
Award-Winning Author of Everything Matters! and God is Dead
Stephen Dau
Author of The Book of Jonas
Junot Díaz
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Eric Jerome Dickey
New York Times Bestselling Novelist
Kim Edwards
Author of The New York Times Bestselling Novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Delia Ephron
Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright, and Author of The Lion Is In
Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book...
Nuruddin Farah
Internationally-Renowned, Award-Winning Author of Knots, Links, and Crossbones
Steven Galloway
Author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska and...
Laura Harrington
Award-winning Playwright and Author of Alice Bliss
Charlaine Harris
New York Times Bestselling-Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels, the Basis for the Hit HBO...
Aleksandar Hemon
Author of The Lazarus Project and Love & Obstacles
Beth Hoffman
New York Times Bestselling Author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
John Lescroart
New York Times-Bestselling Novelist
Patricia McArdle
Author of Farishta and Winner of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Cammie McGovern
Autism Expert and Award-winning Author
Dinaw Mengestu
Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful...
Nami Mun
Author of Miles From Nowhere
Bich Minh Nguyen
Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls
Stewart O’Nan
Author of twelve novels, including The Odds and Emily, Alone
Helen Oyeyemi
Award-winning Writer and Author of Mr. Fox
Richard Peck
Newbery Award–winning Children’s Author
Nathaniel Rich
Senior Editor of The Paris Review and Author of The Mayor's Tongue
Ann B. Ross
Author of the Miss Julia Novels
Mahbod Seraji
Author of Rooftops of Tehran
Ali Sethi
Author of The Wish Maker
Elif Shafak
Internationally Acclaimed Author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul
John Shors
Award-winning Author of Beneath a Marble Sky, Beside a Burning Sea, Dragon House, The Wishing...
Kathryn Stockett
Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help
Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Filmmaker, Director, Actress, Novelist, and Author of Glow
Padma Venkatraman
Bestselling Author of Climbing the Stairs
Susan Vreeland
Award-winning and Bestselling Author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia
Rosemary Wells
Bestselling Illustrator and Author of the Max and Ruby Series
Jason Wright
New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Wednesday Letters