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Lauren Beukes
South African novelist, nonfiction writer, comics writer, journalist, and screenwriter known for genre-bending speculative fiction.

Lynn Painter
Lynn Painter is a bestselling American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults.

Mackenzi Lee
American author of young adult historical fiction, fantasy, romance, licensed novels, and nonfiction.

Megan E. O'Keefe
Megan E. O'Keefe is a US author of science fiction and fantasy, including space opera and steampunk fiction.
Mhairi McFarlane
Scottish novelist known for romantic comedy and contemporary fiction.
Michael Hofmann
German-born British poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator, born in 1957.
Michel Faber
Dutch-born Australian-raised Scottish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist.
Miguel Ruiz
Mexican spiritual teacher and bestselling author of practical books on Toltec wisdom, personal freedom, love, and awareness.

Noelle W. Ihli
Noelle W. Ihli is an internationally bestselling author of thriller-suspense and psychological thriller fiction.

Norton Juster
American architect, planner, professor, and writer best known for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
Olivia Atwater
Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire.
Paulette Møller
Danish children's author and educational writer, also known for translating Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World into English.


Rachel Smythe
New Zealand comic artist and writer best known as the creator of the Eisner Award-winning webcomic and graphic-novel series Lore Olympus.

Rebecca Thorne
Rebecca Thorne is an author of fantasy, science fiction, romance, and writing craft nonfiction.
Richard Rothstein
American author and policy researcher specializing in education, racial segregation, and housing policy.

Robert C. Martin
American software engineer, author, consultant, and educator known for influential books on software craftsmanship, agile development, object-oriented design, and software architecture.
Sally Hepworth
Sally Hepworth is an Australian novelist known for domestic suspense and psychological thrillers centered on family relationships, secrets, and moral ambiguity.
Samantha Shannon
British fantasy author best known for The Bone Season and The Roots of Chaos.

Sangu Mandanna
British-Indian author of fantasy fiction for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers.
Shari Lapena
Canadian author of psychological thrillers, domestic suspense, mystery, and comic fiction.
Tade Thompson
British-Nigerian Yoruba writer and psychiatrist known for science fiction, horror, and speculative fiction.
Thomas E. Connolly
American literary scholar, bibliographer, editor, and professor of English known for work on James Joyce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and literary form.

Timothy Egan
American author and journalist known for narrative nonfiction about the American West, environmental history, biography, and social history.

Tochi Onyebuchi
Nigerian-American speculative-fiction, nonfiction, and comics writer.

Tom Robbins
American novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and memoirist known for exuberant, satirical, philosophically playful prose.
Tracy Kidder
American nonfiction writer and literary journalist known for deeply reported narrative books about technology, education, war, health care, communities, and homelessness.

Travis Deverell
Australian author and web novelist, also known by the pen name Shirtaloon, best known for the He Who Fights with Monsters LitRPG fantasy series.

V.C. Andrews
American novelist best known for gothic family sagas, especially the Dollanganger and Casteel series.

Walter Isaacson
American journalist, historian, professor, and bestselling biographer.

Wil Wheaton
American writer, memoirist, essayist, short-fiction author, graphic-work co-author, actor, and audiobook narrator.
Yiyun Li
Chinese-born American writer of literary fiction, short stories, memoir, and nonfiction.
A. R. Braunmuller
American literary scholar and editor specializing in Shakespeare, English Renaissance drama, and literary criticism.

Adam Hochschild
American historian, journalist, lecturer, and nonfiction author known for narrative histories and memoirs focused on human rights, social justice, war, and political repression.

Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt, often credited as Andy Hunt, is an American programmer, author, consultant, and publisher best known as co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and a founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas is an American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, contemporary novels, fantasy, nonfiction, and collaborative novels.
Ann Goldstein
American curator, museum director, editor, and writer on modern and contemporary art.
Annelies Jorna
Dutch writer and translator whose fiction includes youth novels, an adult novel, and co-authored youth short-story anthologies.

Brent Weeks
American fantasy author best known for the Night Angel and Lightbringer series.
Brodi Ashton
American young adult novelist known for fantasy, historical fiction, and romantic adventure.

Brom
American fantasy and horror artist, illustrator, and author known for darkly illustrated novels and art books.

Caleb Carr
American novelist, military historian, and memoirist known for historical thrillers and nonfiction about warfare, national security, and terrorism.
Catherine Miles Wallace
American cultural historian and author of literary criticism, Christian theology, ethics, memoir, and religious nonfiction.

Charlotte McConaghy
Australian novelist and screenwriter known for young-adult speculative fiction and environmentally focused literary novels.

Chloe Gong
Chloe Gong is a New Zealand author of young adult fantasy, adult fantasy, and science fiction.
Christina Lamb
British foreign correspondent and nonfiction author known for reporting on war, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and the experiences of women in conflict.