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

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

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

Acclaimed Contemporary Fiction Author & Literary Innovator; Pulitzer Prize Winner; Professor & Founding Director, Rutgers-Newark MFA

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

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Novelist & Short-Story Writer Exploring Identity, Gender, and the Immigrant Experience; Known for "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

New York Times Bestselling Mystery & Thriller Author; Former Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan

Award-Winning Author, Known for "Here Comes the Sun" & "Patsy"

International Award-Winning NYT Bestselling Novelist; Known for Her Work in Science Fiction & Fantasy

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

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Longmire" Series

Novelist & Essayist Exploring Science & Literature; Author of "The Only Woman in the Room"; Grub Street National Book Prize Winner

Media Executive, Startup Investor, Founder of Bedford Books, Women's Empowerment Speaker & Best-Selling Author of "The Myth of the Nice Girl"

Legendary Children's Horror Author & Storyteller; Creator of "Goosebumps" & "Fear Street"; Guinness World Record Best-Selling Author

Journalist & Bestselling Author

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Podcast Host & Encourager of Women

Author of the Bestselling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series; Creator of "The Summer I Turned Pretty" Television Series

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