Memoir

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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Firoozeh Dumas

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

Award-winning Novelist, The Corrections & Freedom
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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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Anne Lamott

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

Author, Journalist & Social Observer
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Frances Mayes

Bestselling Author of Under the Tuscan Sun
and A Year in the World
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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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Kathleen Norris

Bestselling Essayist on the Spiritual Life: Dakota,
The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Acedia & Me
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Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

Author & Journalist, Featured Essayist
for New York Magazine
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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 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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David Sedaris

NPR Humorist and Bestselling Author of Naked,
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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Scott Simon

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