Fiction Writers

Russell Banks

Acclaimed Author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter

A.S. Byatt

Award-winning Novelist and Short Story Writer,
Author of Possession: A Romance

Michael Chabon

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

Bernard Cooper

Award-winning Memoirist, Novelist, and Short Story Writer

Michael Cunningham

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Hours

Jonathan Franzen

Award-winning Novelist, The Corrections & Freedom

Sara Gruen

Bestselling Author of Water for Elephants
& Ape House

Daniel Handler

Bestselling Author, (A.K.A Lemony Snicket)

Miranda July

Filmmaker, Artist & Writer

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Interpreter of Maladies

Anne Lamott

Bestselling Author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions,
and Traveling Mercies

Armistead Maupin

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

Alexander McCall Smith

Acclaimed & Beloved Scottish Bestselling Author:
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series,
44 Scotland Street & The Sunday Philosophy Club Series

Anchee Min

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

Michael Ondaatje

Bestselling & Award-winning Author of The English Patient,
Divisadero & Running in the Family

Mark Salzman

Acclaimed Author of Iron & Silk, Lying Awake,
and True Notebooks

Alice Sebold

Bestselling Memoirist & Novelist, Author of Lucky,
The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon

Scott Simon

Host, Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR
and Need to Know on PBS, Writer & Novelist

Zadie Smith

Amy Tan

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