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Award-Winning Novelist; Known for "Black Mamba Boy"

Benjamin Lerner

Novelist, Poet, Critic & Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College

James Dashner

Author of Many Children's Fantasy Series and Adult Books, Including "The Maze Runner" Series

HG Bissinger

Honored and Distinguished Writer

Amanda Lindhout

Executive Director of The Global Enrichment Foundation; Captivity Survivor, Inspirational Speaker & Author of "A House in the Sky"

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Allan Gurganus

Novelist, Short Story Writer & Essayist

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Stephen Graham Jones

Blackfeet Native American Author of Experimental Fiction, Horror, Crime & Science Fiction

Susan Shapiro Barash

Gender Expert; Author of Nonfiction Women's Issues Books

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Author of Bestselling Novel, "The Nest"

Mark Olshaker

Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Novelist & Best-Selling Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "Mindhunter"

Lily Koppel

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William Knoedelseder

Journalist, Best-Selling Author and TV News Executive

Domingo Martinez

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Boy Kings of Texas"

David Haskell

Biologist and Author; Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize

Philipp Meyer

Fiction Writer Known for "The Son" and "American Rust"

Carlos Eire

Cuban American Prof. of History & Religion at Yale. Waiting for Snow in Havana won the 2003 National Book Award

Andrew Gross

Thriller Author

Esmeralda Santiago

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs