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James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
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Karen M. McManus, 55
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Piper Kerman, 55
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Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
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Victoria Aveyard, 34
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Madeline Miller, 46
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
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Guinevere Turner, 56
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Richard Phillips, 69
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Brad Falchuk, 54
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Susanna Kaysen, 76
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Robert Grant (1852-1940)
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Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
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Jon Krakauer, 71
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Kurt Busiek, 64
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Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011)
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Jan Brett, 75
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
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Mark O'Brien (1949-1999)
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Sarah Smith, 77
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Janet Tashjian, 68
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Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
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EE Cummings (1894-1962)
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Max Brallier, 41
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John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
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Shion Takeuchi, 36
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Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
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Jonathan Roberts, 68
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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
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William Monahan, 64
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