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

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

Palestinian Writer and Poet

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

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

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

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

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

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

Pastor, Speaker & Author of "The 5 Love Languages"

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

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

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Advocate of Inclusion and Belonging in the Workplace

Writer & Author of "An Inconvenient Minority: The Ivy League Admissions Cases and the Attack on Asian American Excellence"

Award-Winning Author

Writer & Author of "The Hunting Wives"