Winston Groom

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1. Winston Groom

   Author of Forrest Gump, Gump & Co., Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

2. Stephen King

   Author of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile Book 2: The Mouse on the Mile

3. Peter Cozzens

   Author of This terrible sound: the battle of Chickamauga, No Better Place to Die: THE BATTLE OF STONES RIVER (Civil War Trilogy), The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (Civil War Trilogy)

4. John Grisham

   Author of The Runaway Jury, The Chamber, Bleachers

5. Lyn Macdonald

   Author of 1915: The Death of Innocence, Somme, 1914

6. Michael Crichton

   Author of Jurassic Park, Congo, The Great Train Robbery

7. James Patterson

   Author of Pop Goes the Weasel, When the Wind Blows, Honeymoon

8. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville

9. Gordon C. Rhea

   Author of The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864, To the North Anna River

10. Noah Andre Trudeau

    Author of Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, Bloody Roads South, The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865

11. Max Hastings

    Author of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945, The Korean War, Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield

12. Larry J. Daniel

    Author of Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War, Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865

13. Jeffry D. Wert

    Author of General James Longstreet; the Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, Cavalryman of the Lost Cause, A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863

14. Wiley Sword

    Author of Embrace an Angry Wind, Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863

15. Harry W. Pfanz

    Author of Gettysburg - The Second Day, Gettysburg - Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill

16. Thomas Lawrence Connelly

    Author of Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennesse, 1862-1865, Army of the heartland : The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862

17. Thomas Harris

    Author of The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon

18. Ernest B. Furgurson

    Author of Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave, Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864

19. Alex Kershaw

    Author of The Longest Winter, The Few, Escape from the Deep

20. Rick Atkinson

    Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line