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Curtis Sittenfeld

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Short Story Writer

With 1.6 million books in print, Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of beloved novels Prep, Eligible, American Wife, and the forthcoming novel Rodham.

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Jodi Picoult

Bestselling Author • Novelist

The author of 25 blockbuster novels, including Small Great Things and My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult has an estimated 40 million books in print. Her last nine novels, including her newest book, A Spark of Light, have debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list.

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Maaza Mengiste

Novelist • Essayist • Social Justice Advocate

Mengiste’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by The Guardian as one of the 10 Best Contemporary African Books. Her latest novel, The Shadow King, set during Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, examines what it means to be a woman at war.

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Alice Hoffman

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Short Story Writer

Alice Hoffman is the beloved bestselling author of Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, The Marriage of Opposites, and many others. Her latest novel, The World That We Knew, follows three young women during humanity’s darkest hour in 1941 Berlin, and in her forthcoming Magic Lessons she continues the story of the Owens family first introduced in Practical Magic.

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Sue Monk Kidd

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Memoirist

Sue Monk Kidd’s debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, was a blockbuster bestseller with more than six million copies in print and has proven a modern classic. Her most recent bestseller, The Invention of Wings, was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection. She will have a new novel out in 2020, The Book of Longings.

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