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Alison Bechdel: Cartoonist and author of the bestselling graphic memoir Fun Home and the comic, quasi-autobiographical novel Spent Judy Blume: Legendary author of Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and other books that got us through young adulthood Wade Davis: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and bestselling author of the cult classic The Serpent and the Rainbow Jason De León: National Book Award–winning author of Soldiers and Kings, about his time spent embedded with smugglers guiding migrants across the border Kirk Ellis: Emmy Award–winning screenwriter of the limited television series John Adams, Franklin, and Anne Frank: The Whole Story Lauren Groff: National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, The Vaster Wilds, and the forthcoming story collection Brawler Carl Hiaasen: Bestselling author of Fever Beach, Strip Tease, Bad Monkey, Native Tongue, and other savagely funny novels about people behaving badly Brandon Hobson: National Book Award finalist and author of the novels Where the Dead Sit Talking, The Removed, and The Devil Is a Southpaw Mira Jacob: Writer, illustrator, cultural critic, and author of the graphic memoir Good Talk and the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing Priyanka Kumar: Naturalist, filmmaker, and acclaimed author of Conversations with Birds and The Light Between Apple Trees Kiese Laymon: Award-winning novelist, essayist, and author of Heavy, named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times James McBride: National Book Award–winning author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, The Good Lord Bird, and the acclaimed memoir The Color of Water Liz Moore: New York Times bestselling author of The God of The Woods and Long Bright River, both named favorite books of the year by Barack Obama George Saunders: Booker Prize winner, National Book Award finalist, and author of Lincoln in the Bardo, Tenth of December, and the forthcoming novel Vigil Rebecca Solnit: Writer, activist, and bestselling author of Orwell’s Roses, Men Explain Things to Me, and the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Colm Tóibín: Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author of Brooklyn, Nora Webster, Long Island, and other quietly exquisite novels Ocean Vuong: National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and The Emperor of Gladness Isabel Wilkerson: Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste, considered modern classics of narrative nonfiction
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