Derek Shapton
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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is an award-winning novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur…
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Cherilyn Parsons

Cherilyn Parsons is the founder and executive director of the Bay Area Book Festival (launched in 2015 in Berkeley, California), which is one of the most prominent literary festivals in the USA. Parsons also created Women Lit, which elevates…
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Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold's Ghost and To End All Wars</em (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller),…
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Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the cofounder of 100 Word Story. His work has been widely anthologized in flash-fiction collections, and he is the author of several books, including…
Sarah Enni
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Maurene Goo

Maurene Goo is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults, including I Believe in a Thing Called Love and Somewhere Only We Know, both of which are under development for Netflix. She’s also written for Marvel’s Silk series. Goo's…
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Dan Santat

Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal–winning and New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend and the road trip/time travel adventure Are We There Yet?, as well as the graphic novels…