Fiction Writers

Russell Banks

Acclaimed Author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter
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A.S. Byatt

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

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

Award-winning Memoirist, Novelist, and Short Story Writer
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Michael Cunningham

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Hours
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Jonathan Franzen

Award-winning Novelist, The Corrections & Freedom
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Sara Gruen

Bestselling Author of Water for Elephants
& Ape House
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Daniel Handler

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

Filmmaker, Artist & Writer
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Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Interpreter of Maladies
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Anne Lamott

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

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

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

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

National Book-Award Winning Novelist, Poet, Playwright and Essayist
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Michael Ondaatje

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

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

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

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

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