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1. Phil G. Goulding

   Author of Classical Music: the 50 greatest composers and their 1,000 greatest works

2. Patricia Wentworth

   Author of Miss Silver Comes to Stay, The Gazebo

3. Larry Dossey

   Author of Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

4. Chris Scarre

   Author of The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome

5. V. S. Pritchett

   Author of Complete Collected Stories

6. Ted Libbey

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7. Lionel Trilling

   Author of The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

8. Simon Winchester

   Author of The Meaning of Everything

9. Geoffrey O'Brien

   Author of The Reader's Catalog: An Annotated Selection of More Than 40,000 of the Best Books in Print in 208 Categories (Reader's

10. J. H. Parry

    Author of The Age of Reconnaissance

11. Mathilde Battistini

    Author of Symbols and Allegories in Art (Guide to Imagery Series)

12. James Boswell

    Author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

13. J. P. Kenyon

    Author of The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History (The Wordsworth Collection Reference Library)

14. Robert Mankoff

    Author of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker

15. Brian Wilkie

    Author of Literature of the Western World

16. E. D. Hirsch Jr.

    Author of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

17. John Morris Roberts

    Author of History of the World

18. Otto Bettmann

    Author of The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!

19. Nicolaus Copernicus

    Author of On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

20. Bernard Grun

    Author of The Timetables of History