Michael Chabon
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist, Author of
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Firoozeh Dumas
Bestselling Author of Funny in Farsi:
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
& Laughing Without an Accent
Anne Fadiman
Award-winning Writer, Essayist, Editor, and Author of
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Alexandra Fuller
Award-winning Author Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Elizabeth Kolbert
Journalist and Author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
Man, Nature and Climate Change
Anne Lamott
Bestselling Author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions,
and Traveling Mercies
Anchee Min
Bestselling Memoirist and Novelist, Author of Red Azalea and Becoming Madame Mao
Azar Nafisi
Iranian/American Bestselling Author
Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About
Kathleen Norris
Bestselling Essayist on the Spiritual Life: Dakota,
The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Acedia & Me
Michael Pollan
Bestselling Author & Journalist
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
& The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
David Rakoff
Humorist, Essayist, Author,
and Contributor to Public Radio’s This American Life
Luis Rodriguez
Award-winning Poet, Activist, and Bestselling Author
Always Running: La Vida Loco, Gang Days in L.A.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Science and Nature Writer, Biologist and Neuroscientist, and Stress Expert
Marjane Satrapi
Bestselling Artist/Illustrator and Filmmaker,
Author of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
David Sedaris
NPR Humorist and Bestselling Author of Naked,
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Terry Tempest Williams
Conservationist, Advocate for Free Speech,
Author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place
and Finding Beauty in a Broken World
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