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Piper Kerman, 55
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Esther Earl (1994-2010)
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Karen M. McManus, 56
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James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
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Richard Phillips, 69
13
Brad Falchuk, 54
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Victoria Aveyard, 34
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Sahara Rose, 34
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Madeline Miller, 46
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Susanna Kaysen, 76
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Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
20
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
21
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
22
Guinevere Turner, 56
23
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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Kurt Busiek, 64
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
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Erica Eckman, 39
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William Macdonald (1917-2007)
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Ram Dass (1931-2019)
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Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
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Jan Brett, 75
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John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
34
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
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Tracy K. Smith, 53
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Fred Finklehoffe (1910-1977)
37
EE Cummings (1894-1962)
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Jessica Ward, 56
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Jonathan Roberts, 69
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Mark O'Brien (1949-1999)
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Dorothy West (1907-1998)
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
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Sarah Smith, 77
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