Ayun Halliday

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1. Ayun Halliday

   Author of No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (Adventura Books Series), The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches (Live Girls), Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante

2. Ariel Gore

   Author of Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, The Hip Mama Survival Guide : Advice from the Trenches on Pregnancy, Childbirth, Cool Names, Clueless Doctors, Potty Tra, The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood (Live Girls)

3. Bill Bryson

   Author of A Walk in the Woods, I'm A Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

4. J. Maarten Troost

   Author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu, Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation

5. Tim Cahill

   Author of Road Fever, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales)

6. Sarah Vowell

   Author of Assassination Vacation, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli

7. Bee Lavender

   Author of Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger (Punk Planet Books), Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts

8. Mary Roach

   Author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

9. Laurie Notaro

   Author of We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive, Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

10. Jennifer L. Leo

    Author of Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Travelers' Tales)

11. Marrit Ingman

    Author of Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers

12. Michelle Tea

    Author of The Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir (Live Girls), Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (Live Girls)

13. Susan Jane Gilman

    Author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

14. Inga Muscio

    Author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition, Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

15. Sarah Macdonald

    Author of Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure

16. David Rakoff

    Author of Don't Get Too Comfortable

17. Anne Lamott

    Author of Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

18. Jennifer Traig

    Author of Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

19. Marcelle Karp

    Author of The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order

20. Stefan Fatsis

    Author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players