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Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Critically Acclaimed Author Known for "All American Boys" & "The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege"

Contemporary Crime & Supernatural Fiction Author , Known for "The Ridge" & "An Honest Man"

Award Winning Writer & Playwright, Technologist, Advocate for Diversity in Product Development, Sr. UX Researcher at Google Cloud Platform

CEO & Founder of Motion Infusion; Global Wellbeing Expert; Bestselling Author of "Workplace Wellness That Works"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Novelist, Poet, Critic & Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

New York Times Best Selling Author, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Best Known for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Barkskins"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Playwright, Literary Historian & Novelist Known for "Hood" and "Room"

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"