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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Spoken Word Artist, Slam Poet & Social Justice Activist

Actor & Director Known for "Ugly Betty;" Supporter of Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Advocate for Alzheimer's Disease

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

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

Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Poet, Fiction Writer & Professor at Western Michigan University

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

Author of "Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America"

Award-winning Novelist, Poet & Social Activist

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Acclaimed Author, Former Judge, Award-Winning Journalist & Television Broadcaster

Best-Selling Author

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

Poet, Educator, Actor & Community Organizer

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University

Author of "Of Women and Salt"

Ghanaian Poet, Author, Literary Critic, Media Practitioner & Activist

Artist, Theologian, Psychotherapist & Human Rights Activist