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Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

Children's Book Author; Creator of "Arthur"; Advote for Children's Literacy

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author; Civil Rights Activist; Cancer Survivor; Subject of the Emmy Award-Winning Documentary "Going to Mars"

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

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

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

#1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Children's Musician & Original Author of the "Pete the Cat" Series

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator Known for "Thank You, Mr. Falker"; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

Novelist, Poet & Children's Book Author Known for "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Author's of the Children's Book Series "Dork Diaries" & The Misadventures of Max Crumbly

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

Cowboy and Author; Best Known for his Classic Children’s Series, "Hank the Cowdog"

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

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Author, Editor & Writer of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Children's Books

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Red, White & Royal Blue"