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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Women’s Advocate

Lemmon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, about a young entrepreneur who supported her community under the Taliban. She is at work on a forthcoming book about Kurdish women leading the battle against ISIS.

Katherine Boo

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Journalist

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist noted for her reporting on poverty and inequality, Boo is the author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a gripping narrative of life in a Mumbai slum. The book won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

David Finkel

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Journalist

Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post editor, explores what we ask of the men and women we send to war—and how we fail them when they come home in his two bestselling books, The Good Soldiers and Thank You For Your Service.

Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber

Author • Essayist • Memoirist

Paul Beatty

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Poet

John Berendt

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Essayist

Elizabeth Berg

Bestselling Author • Novelist

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Human Rights Advocate

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Pastor • Bestselling Author • Memoirist

Katherine Boo

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Journalist

Taylor Branch

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Historian

Jessica Bruder

Journalist • Author

NoViolet Bulawayo

Novelist • Essayist • Short Story Writer

Ana Castillo

Author • Essayist • Poet

Vikram Chandra

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Memoirist

Justin Cronin

Bestselling Author • Novelist

Dr. Matthew Desmond

Dr. Matthew Desmond

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Urban Ethnographer

Anthony Doerr

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Novelist

Heidi Durrow

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Essayist

Esi Edugyan

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Essayist

Dr. Brian Fagan

Archaeologist • Author • Climate Change Historian

Sheri Fink

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Journalist

David Finkel

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Journalist

Richard Ford

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Novelist

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Memoirist

Julia Glass

National Book Award Winner • Bestselling Author • Novelist

Dr. Alice Goffman

Dr. Alice Goffman

Author • Social Justice Advocate • Urban Ethnographer

Jeff Goodell

Author • Energy & Environment Expert • Investigative Journalist

Dr. Allyson Hobbs

Dr. Allyson Hobbs

Author • Essayist • Historian

Alice Hoffman

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Short Story Writer

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

Author • Energy & Security Expert • Political Scientist

A.M. Homes

Novelist • Essayist • Memoirist

Nancy Horan

Bestselling Author • Novelist

John Irving

National Book Award Winner • Bestselling Author • Screenwriter

Pico Iyer

Bestselling Author • Essayist • Travel Writer

Mitchell S. Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson

Author • Filmmaker

Gish Jen

Cultural Commentator • Novelist • Essayist

Tayari Jones

Bestselling Author • Novelist

Hillary Jordan

Bestselling Author • Novelist

Piper Kerman

Bestselling Author • Memoirist • Social Justice Advocate

Sue Monk Kidd

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Memoirist

Tracy Kidder

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author

Lily King

Bestselling Author • Novelist

Laura Kipnis

Social Critic • Author • Essayist

Lisa Ko

Novelist • Essayist

Alex Kotlowitz

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Documentary Filmmaker

James Howard Kunstler

Urban Planning Advocate • Novelist • Social Critic • Journalist

The Lacks Family

The Lacks Family of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

Laila Lalami

Novelist • Author • Essayist

Stephanie Land

Economic Justice Advocate • Bestselling Author • Journalist

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Memoirist

Kiese Laymon

Bestselling Author • Social Critic • Essayist

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Women’s Advocate

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Essayist

Anthony Marra

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Short Story Writer

Ayana Mathis

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Essayist

Colum McCann

National Book Award Winner • Bestselling Author • Novelist

Jeremy McCarter

Jeremy McCarter

Cultural Historian • Bestselling Author

Maaza Mengiste

Novelist • Essayist • Social Justice Advocate

Emily Nussbaum

TV Critic • Pulitzer Prize Winner • Essayist

Susan Orlean

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Essayist

Jodi Picoult

Bestselling Author • Novelist

Eli Saslow

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Journalist • Author

Lisa See

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Memoirist

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Bestselling Author • Essayist • Curator

Rebecca Skloot

Bestselling Author • Journalist

Rachel Louise Snyder

Rachel Louise Snyder

Domestic Violence Advocate • Journalist • Author

Paul Theroux

Bestselling Author • Novelist • Travel Writer

Clive Thompson

Journalist • Author • Tech Industry Expert

Krista Tippett

Public Radio Show Host • Journalist • Author

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

Novelist • Journalist • Short Story Writer

Jesmyn Ward

National Book Award Winner • Essayist • Memoirist

Edmund White

Novelist • Social Critic • Memoirist

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