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A
Abbott, Megan
Abril, Laia
Aboulela, Leila
Acosta, Carlos
    Albert, Elisa
    Alcott, Kate
    Alger, Cristina
    Ali, Monica
    Alison, Jane
    Alison, Rosie
    Allende, Isabel
    Altenberg, Karin
    Andersen, Hans Christian
    Anderson, Laurie Halse
    Anonymous
    Ansari, Aziz
    Ansay, A. Manette
    Anshaw, Carol
    Anthony, Joelle
    Antopol, Molly
    Appanah, Nathacha
    B
    Barber, Kathleen
    Barnes, Julian
    Barry, Rebecca
    Bauermeister, Erica
    Baxter, Charles
    Bazell, Josh
      Bomer, Paula
      Botton, Sari (editor)
      Bourland, Barbara
      Bowen, Rhys
      Braffet, Kelly
      Braunstein, Sarah
      Braver, Adam
      Broder, Melissa
      Brown, Dan
      Brown, Janelle
      Brown, Karma
      Brown, T.J.
      Brownstein, Carrie
      Bruce-Benjamin, Samantha
      Bruno, Rosanna
      Bulawayo, NoViolet
      Buntin, Julie
      Burke, Alafair
      Butler, Halle
      C
      Cain, Chelsea
      Caldwell, Chloe
      Calvino, Italo
      Cameron, Claire
      Campbell, Aifric
      Carpenter, Lea
      Carty-Williams, Candice
      Cassidy, Tina
      Catacchio, Onofrio
      Cavallaro, Brittany
      Chamberlain, Diane
      Chevalier, Tracy
      Choi, Susan
      Clark, Clare
      Clark, Marcia
      Clark, Mary Higgins
      Cleage, Pearl
      Clegg, Bill
      Clemmons, Zinzi
      Close, Jennifer
      Clowes, Daniel
      Coehlo, Paulo 
      Cohen, Leah Hager
      Cohen, Paula Marantz
      Cohen, Tish
      Collins, Suzanne
      Crane, Elizabeth
      Cristofano, David
      Cross, Amanda
      Cruz, Angie
      Cumming, Alan
      Cusk, Rachel
      D
      Daniel, Susanna
      de Botton, Alain
      Dee, Jonathan
      D'Erasmo, Stacey
      Dermansky, Marcy
      Dewar, Isla
      deWitt, Patrick
      Diamond, Dustin
      Diaz, Junot
      DiCamillo, Kate
      Doyle, Glennon
      Druett, Joan
      Druckerman, Pamela
      Dubner, Stephen J.
      Dubow, Charles
      Dubus III, Andre
      Dunham, Lena
      Dunmore, Helen
      E
      Eaves, Elisabeth
      Edugyan, Esi
      Egan, Jennifer
      Eisler, Barry
      El Rashidi, Yasmine
      Ellinwood, Sheryl
      Ellis, Helen
      Ellis, Robert
      Enright, Anne
      Erdrich, Louise
      Esquivel, Laura
      Essbaum, Jill Alexander
      Eugenides, Jeffrey
      Evanovich, Janet
      Evans, Lissa
      Ewan, Chris
      F
      Fairstein, Linda
      Fallows, Deborah
      Farmer, Joyce
      Farooki, Roopa
      Faulks, Sebastian
      Feldman, Ellen
      Ferguson, Patricia
      Ferris, Joshua
      Fey, Tina
      Fforde, Katie
      Fierro, Julia
      Flint, Emma
      Flournoy, Angela
      Flynn, Gillian
      Forman, Gayle
      Forna, Aminatta
      Fortes, Susanna
      Founds, Kathleen
      Fountain, Ben
      Fowler, Karen Joy
      Fowler, Therese Anne


      Franzen, Jonathan
      Freeman, John
      Friedman, Daniel
      Funder, Anna
      G
      Gaiman, Neil
      Gaitskill, Mary
      Galgut, Damon
      Gilbert, Elizabeth
      Glidden, Sarah
      Gordon, Jaimy
      Gortner, C.W.
      Gould, Emily
      Govier, Katherine
      Gowda, Shilpi Somaya
      Graham, Lauren
      Grant, Linda
      Graver, Elizabeth
      Green, John
      Greenberg, Isabel
      Greenway, Alice
      Griffin, Anne
      Groff, Lauren
      Grunwald, Lisa
      Guillory, Jasmine
      Gunning, Sally
      Guo, Xiaolu
      H
      Hadley, Tessa
      Haigh, Jennifer
      Haimoff, Michelle
      Hale, Shannon
      Halperin, Mark
      Hamilton, Jane
      Hannah, Kristin
      Harbach, Chad
      Harding, Georgina
      Harding, Paul
      Harmon, Joshua
      Harris, Charlene
      Harvey, Michael
      Harvey, Samantha
      Hawkins, Paula
      Haynes, Elizabeth
      Haywood, Sarah
      Healey, Emma
      Heilemann, John
      Hemon, Aleksandar
      Henderson, Artis
      Henderson, Eleanor
      Hendricks, Greer
      Henkin, Joshua
      Henriquez, Cristina
      Hepola, Sarah
      Herman, Judith
      Heti, Sheila
      Hilderbrand, Elin
      Hill, Joe
      Hoffman, Alice
      Hogan, Phil
      Hollowell, Jenny
      Holsinger, Bruce
      Homes, A.M.
      Hood, Ann
      Hoose, Phillip
      Hoover, Michelle
      Hopgood, Mei-ling
      Hummel, Maria
      Hunt, Samantha
      Hustvedt, Siri
      I
      Indridason, Arnaldur
      Inzer, Christine Mari
      J
      Jackson, Joshilyn
      Jacobs, Kate
      Jaeckel, Jenny
      Jamison, Leslie
      Jennings, Ken
      John, David
      Johnson, Deborah
      Johnson, Denis
      Johnson, Maureen
      Kerman, Piper
      Kidd, Sue Monk
      Kielson, Hans
      King, Lily
      King, Owen
      Kingsolver, Barbara
      Kowalski Cole, Marjorie
      Kraf, Elaine
      Krakauer, Jon
      Kramon, Justin
      Krauss, Nicole
      Kwan, Kevin
      L
      LaCava, Stephanie
      Lamott, Anne
      Lang, Ruth Emmie
      Lasley, Tabitha
      Law-Yone, Wendy
      Lawrenson, Deborah
      Leary, Ann
      LeDuff, Charlie
      Lee, Harper
      Lee, Janice Y.K.
      Lee, Jing-Jing
      Leon, Donna
      Leotta, Allison
      Lepionka, Kristen
      Lerner, Ben
      Levitt, Steven D.
      Levy, Andrea
      Levy, Ariel
      Levy, Deborah
      Lipman, Elinor
      Lippman, Laura
      Littlefield, Sophie
      Littman, Sarah Darer
      Lively, Penelope
      Locke, Attica
      Lowry, Lois
      Lupton, Rosamund
      Lutz, Lisa
      Lynch, Paul
      M
      Ma, Ling
      Magee, Audrey
      Majumdar, Megha
      Makkai, Rebecca
      Malhotra, Vic
      Malladi, Amulya
      Mantel, Hilary
      Marani, Diego
      Markovits, Anouk
      Marsh, Katherine
      Martin, Courtney E.
      Martin, Valerie
      Martin, Wednesday
      Masterman, Becky
      Mathis, Ayana
      May, Peter
      Mazetti, Katarina
      McBride, Eimear
      McCafferty, Megan
      McCarthy, Tom
      McCleen, Grace
      McCracken, Elizabeth
      McCreight, Kimberly
      McGee, Katharine
      McGuire, Richard
      McKay, Ami
      McLaughlin, Emma & Nicola Kraus
      McMahon, Jennifer
      McMann, Lisa
      McMillan, Terry
      Melinek, Judy
      Meloy, Maile
      Mendelsohn, Jane
      Menendez, Ana
      Messud, Claire
      Meyer, Stephenie
      Michaelides, Alex
      Michaels, Anne
      Miller, A.D.
      Miller, Madeline
      Miller, Mary
      Millet, Lydia
      Mills, Kyle
      Minot, Susan
      Mitchard, Jacquelyn
      Mitchell, T.J.
      Moore, Alan
      Moore, Lisa
      Moore, Lorrie
      Moriarty, Liane
      Morrell, David
      Morrison, Toni
      Mueenuddin, Daniyal
      N
      Nadzam, Bonnie
      Napoli, Lisa
      Napolitano, Ann
      Neches, Karen
      Ng, Celeste
      Nicholls, David
      Nichols, Lee
      Niffenegger, Audrey
      O
      O'Brien, Edna
      O'Connor McNees, Kelly
      O'Donnell, Lisa
      O'Donohue, Clare
      O'Leary, Beth
      O'Nan, Stewart
      O'Neill, Joseph
      O'Neill, Tracy
      Obreht, Tea
      Offill, Jenny
      Oliver, Lauren
      Orenstein, Peggy
      Orlean, Susan
      Orringer, Julie
      Patron, Susan
      Patterson, James
      Paull, Laline
      Pavone, Chris
      Pearlman, Edith
      Pekkanen, Sarah
      Percer, Elizabeth
      Perri, Camille
      Perrotta, Tom
      Petterson, Per
      Piele, Anna
      Phillips, Christi
      Picoult, Jodi
      Pittard, Hannah
      Poehler, Amy
      Pond, Mimi
      Popkey, Miranda
      Powell, Margaret
      Powers, Kevin
      Preston, Caroline
      Proulx, E. Annie
      Q
      Quindlen, Anna
      Rindell, Suzanne
      Roberts, Nora
      Robinson, Marilynne
      Robson, Jennifer
      Rochon, Farrah
      Roffey, Monique
      Russell, Karen
      S
      Sager, Riley
      Sandberg, Sheryl
      Sandell, Laurie
      Satrapi, Marjane
      Schaffer, Mary Ann, and Barrows, Annie
      Schaitkin, Alexis
      Schlink, Bernhard
      Schmidt, Gary D.
      Schumacher, Julie
      Schwalbe, Will
      Scott, Lucy
      Seidel, Kathleen Gilles
      Semple, Maria
      Shapiro, Dani
      Sharma, Akhil
      Sheene, Lynn
      Shields, Carol
      Shin, Kyung-Sook
      Shipstead, Maggie
      Shoneyin, Lola
      Shreve, Anita
      Shriver, Lionel
      Sis, Peter
      Sittenfeld, Curtis
      Skibsrud, Johanna
      Small, David
      Sotomayor, Sonia
      Southgate, Martha
      Spark, Muriel
      Spelling, Tori
      St. John Mandel, Emily
      Stead, Rebecca
      Stechschulte, Conor
      Stein, Johanna
      Steinem, Gloria
      Stiefvater, Maggie
      Sterling, Isabel
      Stockett, Kathryn
      Stothard, Anna
      Straub, Emma
      Strauss, Alix
      Strayed, Cheryl
      Strout, Elizabeth
      Sullivan, J. Courtney
      Sussman, Ellen
      Swarup, Vikas
      T
      Talbot, Mary M.
      Taylor, Sara
      Tea, Michelle
      Thomas, Sam
      Thompson, Craig
      Thompson, Sam
      Thompson-Walker, Karen
      Tillyard, Stella
      Todd, Charles
      Trigiani, Adriana
      Trollope, Anthony
      Vaughn, Brian
      Venditti, Robert
      Vida, Vendela
      W
      Walbert, Kate
      Waldman, Amy
      Waldman, Ayelet
      Watson, S.J.
      Wax, Wendy
      Way, Camilla
      Weisgarber, Ann
      Wetmore, Elizabeth
      Wilhelm, Kate
      Williams, Amanda Kyle
      Williams, Ann Joslin
      Williams, Niall
      Wilson, G. Willow
      Wilson, Kevin
      Wilson, Sari
      Winder, Elizabeth
      Winman, Sarah
      Winspear, Jacqueline
      Wolf, Dick
      Wolitzer, Meg
      Wood, Lucy
      WuDunn, Sheryl
      Wroblewski, David
      Wyld, Evie
      Y
      Yanique, Tiphanie
      Zambrano, Mario Alberto
      Zancan, Caroline
      Zentner, Alexi
      Zevin, Gabrielle

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