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1. Chris Lear

   Author of Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-, Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile

2. John L. Parker, Jr.

   Author of Once a Runner: A Novel, Again to Carthage

3. David Halberstam

   Author of Summer of '49, October 1964, The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal

4. David Maraniss

   Author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, Rome 1960

5. Kenny Moore

   Author of Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder

6. Tom Jordan

   Author of Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine

7. Ben Macintyre

   Author of Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

8. Nathaniel Philbrick

   Author of Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

9. Alistair Horne

   Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

10. Diana Preston

    Author of The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900, Lusitania

11. Frederick Kempe

    Author of Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

12. David McCullough

    Author of The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, The Johnstown Flood

13. James D. Hornfischer

    Author of Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

14. Hampton Sides

    Author of Hellhound on His Trail : the Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin

15. Constantine Pleshakov

    Author of The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima

16. Edmund Morris

    Author of Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt

17. Otto J. Lehrack

    Author of The First Battle

18. John Brant

    Author of Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

19. Alessandro Barbero

    Author of The Day of the Barbarians, The Battle: A New History of Waterloo

20. John Feinstein

    Author of Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL, The Punch