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- AMegan Abbott
Elmaz Abinader
Diana Abu-Jaber
Chantel Acevedo
Kim Addonizio
Arnold Adoff
Kim Adrian
Andrew Alexander
Paul Alexander
Shana Alexander
André Alexis
Sara Johnson Allen
Dorothy Allison
Hilton Als
Gigi Amateau
Natalie Angier
A. Manette Ansay
Robert Antoni
Molly Antopol
John Ashbery
Jabari Asim
James Atlas
Jami Attenberg
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster - BBlake Bailey
Calvin Baker
John Ball
Russell Banks
John Banville
Coleman Barks
Andrea Barrett
Dave Barry
John Barth
Amy Bass
Rick Bass
Ann Beattie
Paul Beatty
Madison Smartt Bell
Aimee Bender
Sheila Benson
A. Scott Berg
Elizabeth Berg
David Bergman
Frank Bidart
Buzz Bissinger
Benjamin Black
Clark Blaise
Connie Regan Blake
Roy Blount Jr.
Judy Blume
Joshua Bodwell
Donald Bogle
Todd Boss
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Rosalind Brackenbury
Scott Brennan
Carol Brightman
John Malcolm Brinnin
Michael Bronski
Geraldine Brooks
Ashley Brown
Daniel James Brown
Jericho Brown
Rebecca Brown
Howard Browne
Ray B. Browne
Matthew Bruccoli
Joseph Bruchac
Frank Bruni
Christopher Buckley
Knox Burger
Gina Burgin
Alafair Burke
Chase Burke
Phillip Burton
Robert Olen Butler - CMeg Cabot
Rafael Campo
Lan Cao
Philip Caputo
Robert A. Caro
Michael Carroll
Vinnette Carroll
Stephen L. Carter
Joseph Cassara
Marie Chaix
Tina Chang
Chris Chase
Anelise Chen
Alan Cheuse
Lee Child
Tim Cahill
Kate Christensen
Sandra Cisneros
Mary Higgins Clark
Thurston Clarke
Ross Clayburn
Lucille Clifton
Andrei Codrescu
Teju Cole
Elizabeth Colledge
Billy Collins
Gail Collins
Kirby Congdon
Michael Connelly
Frank Conroy
Lisa Consiglio
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Thomas H. Cook
S.A. Cosby
Douglas Coupland
Bruce Coville
Robert Creeley
Cynthia Crossen
Hal Crowther
James Crumley
Michael Cunningham - DSika Dagbovie-Mullins
Edwidge Danticat
Paula Danziger
Peter Ho Davies
Erica Dawson
Laurent de Brunhoff
Walter A. de Milly
Michael Denneny
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Jay Deshpande
Junot Díaz
Annie Dillard
Carl Djerassi
E.L. Doctorow
Arlene Donovan
Nayereh Doosti
Joe Dornich
Mark Doty
Rita Dove
Will Dowd
Christina Downing
Samuel Dresden
Tananarive Due
Christopher Durang
G.L. Durlacher
Geoff Dyer
Wilma Dykeman - ECornelius Eady
Hanns Ebensten
John T. Edge
Clyde Edgerton
Brent Hayes Edwards
Jennifer Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich
Gretel Ehrlich
Deborah Eisenberg
Osborn Eliott
Emily Raboteau
Patricia Engel
Elizabeth Engelman
Nora Ephron
Garrett Epps
Jason Epstein
Paul Erdman
Martin Espada
Rhina Espaillat
Jeffrey Eugenides
Percival Everett
William K. Everson - FMelanie Pappadis Faranello
Lyndsay Faye
Ross Feeler
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Timothy Ferris
Leslie Fielder
Jennie Fields
Chloe Firetto-Toomey
Gillian Flynn
Eric Foner
Carolyn Forché
Ashley C. Ford
Richard Ford
María Irene Fornés
Regis M. Fox
Nell Freudenberger
Nancy Friday
Bruce Jay Friedman
Carl Friedman
Fred Friendly - GElizabeth Gaffney
Jonathan Galassi
Rivka Galchen
Nicole Galland
Forrest Gander
Cristina García
Murray Gell-Man
Robert Geller
Elizabeth George
Dan Gerber
Merrial Joan Gerber
Tess Gerritsen
William Gibson
Megan Giddings
Dagoberto Gilb
James Gleick
Jonathan Gold
Paul Goldberger
Lorrie Goldensohn
Francisco Goldman
William Goldman
Darra Goldstein
Jewell Gomez
Manuel Gonzales
Brad Gooch
Melinda Goodman
Adam Gopnik
Liz Gordon
Lyndall Gordon
Annette Gordon-Reed
Vivian Gornick
Stephen Jay Gould
Sara Gran
George Green
Nadege Green
Gael Greene
Kerri Greenidge
Linda Greenlaw
Lauren Groff
Sara Gruen
Doris Grumbach
Richard Grusin
Allan Gurganus - HRachel Hadas
David Halberstam
James W. Hall
Pete Hamill
Nan Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
Patricia Hampl
Elizabeth Hardwich
Claire Harman
Sharon Harrigan
Eddy L. Harris
Louis Harris
Jim Harrison
Richard Hartice
Lisa Beech Hartz
Kent Haruf
Matthea Harvey
Arlo Haskell
Molly Haskell
Amanda Hawkins
Terrance Hayes
Mary Hays
Anthony Hecht
Mark Hedden
Ursula Hegi
Joseph Heller
Lorian Hemingway
Aleksander Hemon
Paul Hendrickson
Seymour Hersh
Carl Hiaasen
Tony Hillerman
Rust Hills
Jane Hirshfield
Eva Hoffman
Roald Hoffmann
Linda Hogan
Andrew Holleran
Sandy Horwitt
Tony Horwitz
Christine Shan Shan Hou
Silas House
James D. Houston
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Marie Howe
Samantha Hunt
Siri Hustvedt
Ishion Hutchinson - INishanth Injam
Molly Ivins
Uzodinma Iweala
Pico Iyer - JJordan Jacks
Naomi Jackson
Richard Jackson
Madhur Jaffrey
Marlon James
Jane Leavy
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Gish Jen
Lauryann Jiang
Phyllis Joffe
Charles Johnson
Diane Johnson
Joyce Johnson
Judith Jones
Tayari Jones - KJoan Kahn
Jane Kamensky
George Kamide
Stuart Kaminsky
Joseph Kanon
Justin Kaplan
Mary Karr
John Katzenbach
David A. Kaufelt
William Kennedy
Munib Khan
Jamaica Kincaid
William Kittredge
Carolyn Kizer
Joe Klein
Nancy Klingener
Yusef Komunyakaa
E.L. Konisburg
Michael Koryta
Larry Kramer
David Kranes
William Kent Krueger
Maxine Kumin
Mark Kurlansky
Anna Kushner
Rachel Kushner
Tony Kushner
Louis Kuznets
Chaney Kwak - LAimee LaBrie
Wally Lamb
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Dorianne Laux
Victor LaValle
David Lawrence
Paul Lazarus III
David Leavitt
Lisa Lee
Michael Lee
Elmore Leonard
Jill Lepore
Jonathan Lethem
Janna Levin
David Levering Lewis
Yiyun Li
Kelly Link
Laura Lippman
A. Walton Litz
Attica Locke
Barry Lopez
David Wong Louie
Alison Lurie
Christopher Lydon - MCarolyn Mackler
Kristen-Paige Madonia
Thomas Mallon
David Maraniss
Lynn Margulis
Paul Mariani
Megan Marshall
Valerie Martin
Patricia Marx
Bobbie Ann Mason
David Mas Masumoto
Harry Mathews
Peter Matthiessen
D.T. Max
Jane Mayer
Joyce Maynard
Colum McCann
Dr. James McConkie
David McConnell
Frank McCourt
Ian McEwan
Joan McGillis
Ben McGrath
Campbell McGrath
Thomas McGuane
Vestal McIntyre
Ivy Meeropol
Michael Meeropol
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Daniel Menaker
Ana Menendez
William Meredith
James Merrill
Alice Methfessel
Michael Mewshaw
China Miéville
Nancy Milford
Kei Miller
Madeline Miller
Lawrence Millman
Anchee Min
Judith Minty
Nicole Mones
Dantiel W. Moniz
Lorrie Moore
Jan Morris
Mary Morris
Kate Moses
Bharati Mukherjee
Paul Muldoon
Nami Mun
Gabriel Mundo
Manuel Muñoz
Dervla Murphy
George Murphy
Eileen Myles - NJames Nagel
John Naisbitt
Ann Napolitano
David Nasaw
Sena Jeter Naslund
Antonya Nelson
Maggie Nelson
Marilyn Nelson
Michael Nelson
Richard K. Nelson
Emily Nemens
Bich Minh Nguyen
Diana Khoi Nguyen
John Nichols
Perry Nodelman
Howard Norman
Naomi Novik
Elizabeth Nunez
Malla Nunn - OJoyce Carol Oates
Mirta Ojito
Medhi Okasi
Sharon Olds
Charles Olson
Molly O’Neill
Peter S. Onuf
Mary Rose O’Reilley
Jane O’Reilly
Meghan O’Rourke
Patricia O’Toole
Eric Overmyer
Ruth Ozeki - PZZ Packer
Leonardo Padura
Danielle Paige
Dexter Palmer
Richard Panek
Sara Paretsky
Jay Parini
Carolyn Patterson
Octavio Paz
Doug Peacock
Nancy Pearson
Dale Peck
Richard Peck
Michelle Peñaloza
Otto Penzler
Tom Perrotta
Brooks Whitney Phillips
Caryl Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Deesha Philyaw
Jerry Pinkney
Robert Pinsky
Hannah Pittard
Patricia Powell
Annie Proulx - QJamie Quatro
Anna Quindlen
Alice Quinn - RArnold Rampersad
Claudia Rankine
Ron Rash
Shannon Ravenel
Julia Reed
Ruth Reichl
Frank Rich
Katherine Rich
Robert D. Richardson
Andrea Rinard
Marilynne Robinson
Frances Robles
Phyllis Rose
Rosemary Bray
Roger Rosenblatt
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Michael Ruhlman
Karen Russell
Kay Ryan
Patrick Ryan - SBenjamin Saenz
Brynn Saito
Kira Salak
Julie Salamon
Faith Sale
Zak Salih
Mary Jo Salter
John Sandford
Peter Sanger
Esmeralda Santiago
Jonathan Santlofer
Andrew Sarris
George Saunders
Vincent Scarpa
Katherine Schaefer
Elisabeth Scharlatt
Cathleen Schine
Budd Schulberg
Sarah Schulman
John Burnham Schwartz
Lloyd Schwartz
Eric Shanower
Harvey Shapiro
Leanne Shapton
Brenda Shaughnessy
Lindsey Shavers
Max Shavers
Sydney Shavers
Vic Shavers
Wilfrid Sheed
Diane Shelby
Jim Shepard
Lionel Shriver
Gary Shteyngart
Jake Silverstein
Charles Simic
Mona Simpson
Curtis Sittenfeld
Jane Smiley
Alexander McCall Smith
Annick Smith
Lee Smith
Dava Sobel
Ted Solataroff
Marcia Southwick
Elizabeth Spires
Les Standiford
Brent Staples
Marilyn Stasio
Timothy Steele
Rob Stephens
Steve Stern
Robert Stone
Mark Strand
Christy Strick
Alexandra Styron
William Styron
Richard Sugg
U.T. Summers
Patrick Symmes - TLisa Taddeo
Amy Tan
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
James Tate
Peter Taylor
Louisa Thomas
Judith Thurman
Colm Tóibín
Natasha Trethewey
Calvin Trillin
Quincy Troupe
Garry Trudeau
Frederick Turner
Scott Turow
Kate Tuttle - ULisa Unger
Barry Unsworth
Deanne Urmy - VAbraham Verghese
Diana Verlain
Gore Vidal
Christine Vines
Kurt Vonnegut - WDavid Waggoner
Derek Walcott
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Laura Warrell
Wendy Wasserstein
Brad Watson
Stephanie Powell Watts
Steven Weinberg
Jonathan Weiner
Irving Weinman
James Welch
John Wells
Donald E. Westlake
Kate Wheeler
Theodore Wheeler
Edmund White
Colson Whitehead
John Edgar Wideman
Dara Wier
Richard Wilbur
Nancy Willard
Charles Willeford
Joan Williams
Joy Williams
Tennessee Williams
Emily Wilson
Brenda Wineapple
Sabra Wineteer
Robin Winks
Geoffrey Wolff
Tobias Wolff
Hilma Wolitzer
Michael Wood
Jacqueline Woodson
John Wray
C.D. Wright - YTiphanie Yanique
Jane Yolen
Al Young
Kevin Young
Charles Yu - ZLisa Zeidner
Mary Kay Zuravleff