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Russell Banks

Acclaimed Author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter
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Michael Chabon

Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist, Author of
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Billy Collins

United States Poet Laureate (2001–2003)
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Firoozeh Dumas

Bestselling Author of Funny in Farsi:
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
& Laughing Without an Accent
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Timothy Egan

National Book Award-winning Author of The Worst Hard Time
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Anne Fadiman

Award-winning Writer, Essayist, Editor, and Author of
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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Alexandra Fuller

Award-winning Author Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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Elizabeth Kolbert

Journalist and Author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
Man, Nature and Climate Change
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Jaron Lanier

Scientist, Musician, Visual Artist &
Author of Who Owns the Future?
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Erik Larson

Award-winning Author of The Devil in the White City
&  In The Garden of Beasts
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Barry Lopez

National Book Award Winner, Author of Arctic Dreams
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Anchee Min

Bestselling Memoirist and Novelist, Author of Red Azalea and Becoming Madame Mao
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Azar Nafisi

Iranian-American Bestselling Author
Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About
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Naomi Shihab Nye

Award-winning Palestinian-American Poet,
Writer, Anthologist, and Educator
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Michael Pollan

Bestselling Author & Journalist
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
& The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Luis J. Rodriguez

Award-winning Poet, Activist, and Bestselling Author
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
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Mark Salzman

Acclaimed Author of Iron & Silk, Lying Awake,
and True Notebooks
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Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky

Science and Nature Writer, Biologist and Neuroscientist, and Stress Expert
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Marjane Satrapi

Bestselling Artist/Illustrator and Filmmaker,
Author of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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Eric Schlosser

Bestselling Author of Fast Food Nation & Reefer Madness
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Zadie Smith

Prize-winning Author of White Teeth and On Beauty
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Art Spiegelman

Pulitzer Prize-winning Artist/Illustrator,
Author of MAUS, In the Shadow of No Towers, & Breakdowns
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Amy Tan

Bestselling Author of The Joy Luck Club and
Saving Fish From Drowning
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Sarah Vowell

Bestselling Author of
The Wordy Shipmates & Assassination Vacation
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Chris Ware

Award-winning Cartoonist and Author,
Author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
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Terry Tempest Williams

Conservationist, Advocate for Free Speech,
Author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place
and Finding Beauty in a Broken World
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