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

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

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

Bestselling & Newberry Honor Author; Known for "Echo," "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "The Radium Girls" & "The Woman They Could Not Silence"

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

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

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

NYT Best-Selling Author of "Something Borrowed" & "Heart of the Matter"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Heft," "The Unseen World," "Long Bright River" & "The God of the Woods"; Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Temple University

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "Puddin',"Dumplin'" & "Side Effects May Vary"

Entrepreneur & Best-Selling Author

International Best-Selling Authors & Sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine

Expert on Storytelling in a Post-AI World for Leaders, Managers and Teams to Drive Trust, Engagement and Growth

Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Novelist & Best-Selling Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "Mindhunter"

Award-Winning Science Fiction Author, Known for "Story of Your Life" and "Exhalation"

International Bestselling Author; Known for the "Neal Carey Mysteries"

Canadian Journalist & Author of Mystery Novels; Known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series

Award-Winning Irish Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist & Playwright; Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University

Author of Many Children's Fantasy Series and Adult Books, Including "The Maze Runner" Series