Mark Salzman

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1. Mark Salzman

   Author of Lying Awake, The Soloist, The Laughing Sutra

2. Kathleen Norris

   Author of The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

3. Tracy Kidder

   Author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, House, Among Schoolchildren

4. Jane Smiley

   Author of A Thousand Acres, Moo, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

5. Marilynne Robinson

   Author of Gilead, Housekeeping

6. Wallace Stegner

   Author of Angle of Repose, Crossing to Safety

7. Paul Theroux

   Author of The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster

8. Ann Patchett

   Author of Bel Canto, Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

9. Louise Erdrich

   Author of The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Beet Queen

10. Ron Hansen

    Author of Mariette in Ecstasy

11. Maxine Hong Kingston

    Author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, China Men

12. Peter Hessler

    Author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

13. Gail Tsukiyama

    Author of The Samurai's Garden: A Novel, Women of the Silk: A Novel

14. Nien Cheng

    Author of Life and Death in Shanghai

15. Ha Jin

    Author of Waiting, War Trash

16. Penelope Fitzgerald

    Author of The Bookshop, The Blue Flower

17. Anna Quindlen

    Author of Object Lessons, How Reading Changed My Life

18. Nick Hornby

    Author of The Polysyllabic Spree, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

19. Ruth Reichl

    Author of Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table

20. Gail Godwin

    Author of Evensong