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Isabel Wilkerson
American journalist and author known for narrative nonfiction about race, migration, and social hierarchy in the United States.
J. J. Abrams
American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and co-author known for S. and Spider-Man: Bloodline.

J.D. Vance
American author, memoirist, lawyer, investor, and politician known for writing about working-class life, social mobility, and religious faith.
J.M. Miro
J.M. Miro is the pseudonym of Canadian novelist Steven Price and the author of The Talents historical-fantasy series.

James Clear
James Clear is a writer and speaker focused on habits, decision making, and continuous improvement.

James Marsters
American actor, musician, and comic-book writer best known for playing Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
James Warhola
American artist, illustrator, and children's-book author known for science-fiction and fantasy cover art and picture books about his uncle Andy Warhol.

Joe Mantegna
American actor and playwright who co-conceived and co-wrote the collaborative play Bleacher Bums.
John Higgins
English comics artist, writer, colorist, and autobiographical art-book author, best known for Razorjack and his color work on Watchmen.

John Kennedy Toole
American novelist best known for the posthumously published novels A Confederacy of Dunces and The Neon Bible.

Kathryn Stockett
American novelist known for historical and literary fiction set in the American South.
KC Davis
KC Davis is a licensed professional counselor and author of compassionate, practical guides to self-care, home care, and relationships.
Kris Anka
Los Angeles-based American comics artist and graphic-work creator known for Marvel and Image Comics projects.
Leonard J. Stanton
American scholar of Russian language, literature, and culture, known for studies of Russian religious thought and nineteenth-century Russian writers.
Ling Ma
Chinese American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction combines literary, speculative, dystopian, and surreal elements.
Lucia Graves
English writer, memoirist, novelist, and literary translator raised in Mallorca.
Lulu Miller
American science journalist, author, and radio producer known for hybrid nonfiction and children's literature.
M. L. Stedman
Australian novelist best known for The Light Between Oceans and A Far-flung Life.
Marc Thompson
Marc Thompson is an English-language haiku poet known for the chapbooks Ordinary Time and Oklahoma Heat.
Mary GrandPré
Mary GrandPré is an American children's-book author and illustrator best known for the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter novels.
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist, machine-learning researcher, and author known for popular-science writing on cosmology, mathematical reality, artificial intelligence, and the future of life.

Melissa Bashardoust
Melissa Bashardoust is a young adult fantasy author known for feminist fairy-tale retellings.
Morgan Talty
Morgan Talty is a Penobscot writer and author of literary fiction and short stories.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
American author of speculative and literary fiction, known for the short-story collection Friday Black and the dystopian novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.

Nikki Erlick
Nikki Erlick is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer known for speculative fiction exploring love, loss, fate, and human resilience.
Paul Kidby
English artist and illustrator best known for his definitive visual work on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.


Philip Gabriel
American scholar of modern Japanese literature, literary critic, and translator.
Rachel Yoder
Rachel Yoder is an American fiction and nonfiction writer, best known for the novel Nightbitch.
Randy Pausch
American computer scientist, educator, author, and co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.

Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage is an English actor, voice actor, and novelist known for psychological thrillers including Geneva and The Cut.
Robert Warshow
American film, literary, and cultural critic associated with the New York Intellectuals.
Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow is an American investigative journalist, author, attorney, and former State Department official.

Samin Nosrat
Chef, teacher, and food writer known for making cooking principles accessible through warm, technique-focused cookbooks.
Samuel A. Moore
Samuel A. Moore is a scholarly communication specialist at Cambridge University Library whose research focuses on academic publishing, open research, and the commons.
Scott Smith
American novelist and screenwriter known for the thriller A Simple Plan and horror novel The Ruins.

Shelley Parker-Chan
Shelley Parker-Chan is an Asian Australian author of queer historical fantasy and the Radiant Emperor duology.
Sheryl Sandberg
American business executive and nonfiction author known for books on women's leadership, careers, grief, and resilience.

Simon Jimenez
Filipino-American writer of speculative fiction and author of The Vanished Birds and The Spear Cuts Through Water.

Steve Krug
American usability consultant and author known for practical books on web and product usability.