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1. Erik Larson

   Author of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, In The Garden of Beasts

2. David McCullough

   Author of John Adams, Truman, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

3. Sebastian Junger

   Author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea, WAR

4. Rebecca Skloot

   Author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

5. Jon Krakauer

   Author of Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

6. Ann Patchett

   Author of State of Wonder

7. Abraham Verghese

   Author of Cutting for Stone

8. Helen Simonson

   Author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

9. Paula McLain

   Author of The Paris Wife

10. Mitchell Zuckoff

    Author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

11. Jamie Ford

    Author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

12. Karl Marlantes

    Author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

13. Julie Orringer

    Author of The Invisible Bridge

14. Emma Donoghue

    Author of Room

15. Isabel Wilkerson

    Author of The Warmth of Other Suns:The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

16. Kathryn Stockett

    Author of The Help

17. Téa Obreht

    Author of The Tiger's Wife

18. Geraldine Brooks

    Author of Caleb's Crossing

19. Stacy Schiff

    Author of Cleopatra: A Life

20. Elizabeth Strout

    Author of Olive Kitteridge