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Participants 2008

Chinua AchebeNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the 2008 Mason Award.
Charles BaxterCharles 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 ThompsonChristina Thompson is the author of the historical memoir, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story.
Sue MillerSue 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. WilliamsC.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 FordKatie Ford is the author of two poetry collections: Deposition and Storm.
Michael SimsMichael 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 SullivanAmy 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 BirkertsSven 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 CunninghamMichael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours and winner of the 2008 Fairfax Prize.
Linwood HoltonLinwood Holton, who served as governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974, is the author of the memoir Opportunity Time.
Daniel Mark EpsteinDaniel Mark Epstein is the author of The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage and Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington.
Lori SmithLori Smith is the author of A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey Into Adventure Love, and Faith.
Ethan CaninEthan Canin is the author of six books of fiction, most recently the novel America America.
Frederick P. HitzFrederick P. Hitz is the author of The Great Game: the Myth and Reality of Espionage and Why Spy? Espionage in an Era of Uncertainty.

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