Nigerian novelist
Chinua Achebe, author of
Things Fall Apart and winner of the 2008 Mason Award.
Charles Baxter's novels include
The Feast of Love, a National Book Award finalist recently adapted as a major motion picture, and
The Soul Thief.
Christina Thompson is the author of the historical memoir,
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story.
Sue Miller has written eight bestselling novels, including
While I Was Gone (an Oprah's Book Club pick), and
The Senator's Wife, published earlier this year.
C.K. Williams is the author of ten books of poetry, including
The Singing, winner of the National Book Award, and
Repair, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Katie Ford is the author of two poetry collections:
Deposition and
Storm.
Michael Sims’s latest book,
Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, was chosen as one of the Best Science Books of 2007 by National Public Radio.
Amy Sullivan Amy Sullivan is a national correspondent for
Time magazine, and author of the book
The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap.
Sven Birkerts is a distinguished essayist and critic whose works include
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again and
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.
Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Hours and winner of the 2008 Fairfax Prize.
Linwood Holton, who served as governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974, is the author of the memoir
Opportunity Time.
Daniel Mark Epstein is the author of
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage and
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington.
Lori Smith is the author of
A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey Into Adventure Love, and Faith.
Ethan Canin is the author of six books of fiction, most recently the novel
America America.
Frederick P. Hitz is the author of
The Great Game: the Myth and Reality of Espionage and
Why Spy? Espionage in an Era of Uncertainty.
