Diversity

Bernard Cooper

Award-winning Memoirist, Novelist, and Short Story Writer

Michael Cunningham

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Hours

Firoozeh Dumas

Bestselling Author of Funny in Farsi:
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

& Laughing Without an Accent

Eve Ensler

Writer, Playwright, Activist

Anne Fadiman

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

David Henry Hwang

Playwright, Screenwriter, & Librettist
M. Butterfly, and Chinglish

Tony Kushner

Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright,
Author of Angels in America and Caroline, or Change

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Interpreter of Maladies

Armistead Maupin

Acclaimed Novelist, Author of the Tales of the City Series
and The Night Listener

Anchee Min

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

Azar Nafisi

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

Mary Oliver

Pulitzer Prize-winning & National Book Award-winning Poet, Essayist and Chronicler of the Natural World

Suzan-Lori Parks

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Topdog/Underdog

Frank Rich

Author & Journalist, Featured Essayist
for New York Magazine

Luis J. Rodriguez

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

Kay Ryan

United States Poet Laureate (2008-2010)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet

Marjane Satrapi

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

Stephen Sondheim

Playwright, Composer, & Lyricist

Amy Tan

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