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Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018), and five novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011), Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017) Nothing to See Here (Ecco, 2019), a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection, Now is Not the Time to Panic, (Ecco, 2022), and Run for the Hills (Ecco, 2025).
His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He lives in Sewa

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Joshua Piven

Josh Piven is a television writer and producer, speechwriter, playwright, and the author or co-author of more than twenty non-fiction and humor books, including the worldwide best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.

He wrote the teleplay and serves as producer of Don The Beekeeper, a half-hour children’s TV show about honeybees and urban beekeeping. His most recent stage play, a holiday farce called No Reservations, had its world premiere in November-December, 2013, to great success and critical acclaim. More information. His next play is Muddled.

Josh likes to refer to himself in the third person.

Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though of

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Dan Heath

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center.
Dan has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. from the Plan II Honors Program from the University of Texas at Austin.

He co-wrote a book titled Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Chip Heath.

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Judith Kerr

Judith Kerr was a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the Second World War.

Kerr was born in Berlin but left Germany with her parents and her brother, Michael, in 1933, soon after the Nazis first came to power. They were forced to leave as her father, noted drama critic, journalist and screenwriter Alfred Kerr, had openly criticised the Nazis,who burned his books shortly after the family had fled Germany. They travelled first to Switzerland and then on into France, before finally settling in Britain, where Ker

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Eli Burnstein

Eli Burnstein is a humor writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, Points in Case, and Weekly Humorist. His debut book, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions (Union Square & Co), was a Toronto Star bestseller described by Steven Pinker as "a tribute to the genius of the human mind for conceptual precision and the beauty of the English language in capturing it."

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Nedra Glover Tawwab

Therapist, NYT Bestselling Author, and Relationship Expert.

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Nicole Tersigni

Nicole is a comedic writer and author of the bestselling humor book, Men to Avoid in Art and Life, and its follow up, Friends to Keep in Art and Life. She lives in Metro Detroit with her husband, daughter, and dog.

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Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak é escritor, roteirista, porta-voz e pensador indígena. Integrante da comunidade dos Krenak, aos dezessete anos migrou com seus parentes para o estado do Paraná. Posteriormente, tornou-se produtor gráfico e jornalista. Dedica-se ao movimento indígena desde muito jovem. Graças a esforços coletivos e do próprio escritor, o número de indivíduos de sua comunidade voltou a subir, depois de sofrer grande queda em números totais até os anos 1980, e fechou o século 20 com 150 indivíduos. É professor doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Participou da antologia A outra margem do ocidente (Minc-Funarte/ Companhia das Letras, 1999), e publicou a entrevista Ailton Krenak (Azougue, 2015) e O lugar onde a Terra desc

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Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.

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Julio Vincent Gambuto

Julio Vincent Gambuto is the author of the viral essay series “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting,” which sparked a world-wide conversation reaching more than 21 million readers in 29 countries. A moviemaker by trade and training, Julio has written, directed, and produced film and television content for The New Yorker, Nickelodeon, PBS, E! Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Beta Films, Stone & Company, and Kerner Entertainment. He is a graduate of Harvard University and earned his MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was an Annenberg Fellow. Prior, Julio worked as a marketing communications writer and consultant, and co-founded TAYPE — an after-school arts program for LGBTQ+ teens. He lives in New York City. Please Unsubs

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Sarah Andersen

Hello! I’m Sarah and I’m a cartoonist and illustrator. I graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. My comics are semi-autobiographical and follow the adventures of myself, my friends, and my beloved pets.

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Yumi Sakugawa

California-based comic artist and illustrator Yumi Sakugawa's work has featured everything from lonely one-eyed monsters to an ode to The Baby-Sitters Club character Claudia Kishi. Her off-beat comics that explore the trials and tribulations of human interaction have been featured in Sadie Magazine and The Rumpus and her comic zine Mundane Fortunes for the Next Ten Billion Years And Other Stories was chosen as a Notable Comic of 2012 by the Best American Comics anthology.

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You can find her on: Facebook and Instagram and contributing to The Rumpus and Wonder How To.

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Melody Godfred

Melody Godfred is a poet, author, and speaker who is passionate about empowering people to love themselves and transform their lives.

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Loryn Brantz

Loryn Brantz is an author, artist, poet, and director. She is the creator of two best-selling board book series, Feminist Baby and It Had To Be You (Love Poems Your Baby Can See), and is also a two-time Emmy Award winner for her work on Sesame Street. She is currently a consulting creative director for the beloved children’s education program, Ms. Rachel. Her debut poetry collection, Poems of Parenting, will be available Spring, 2025.

Her greatest desire is to make the world a better place through art, even if just a little — but hopefully, a lot. Loryn lives in New York City with her husband, architect Jake J. Brotter, and children, Dalia and Ronen.

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Abraham Flexner

Critical report of American educator Abraham Flexner on American and Canadian medical schools in 1910 resulted in a sweeping reform.

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After founding and directing a college-preparatory school in his hometown, Flexner in 1908 published a critical assessment of the state of the American educational system, titled The American College: A Criticism . His work attracted the Carnegie foundation to commission an evaluation in depth into 155 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. His resultant self-titled Flexner Report , published in 1910, sparked reform in the United States. Flexner also founded the institute for advanced study, wh

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Peter H. Reynolds

Peter Hamilton Reynolds is an author and illustrator of children's books and is the co-Founder and CEO of educational media company FableVision.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.

She was the daughter of Frederic B. Perkins.

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Miguel Ruiz

Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías is a Mexican author known for his teachings on Toltec spirituality and neoshamanism. Best known for his 1997 bestseller The Four Agreements, Ruiz's work is embraced by the New Thought movement and has influenced many seeking spiritual enlightenment. His books, including The Mastery of Love and The Voice of Knowledge, have helped spread Toltec wisdom worldwide. Ruiz was named one of the Watkins 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2018. He also co-authored The Fifth Agreement with his son José Ruiz and has continued to write and teach on personal freedom and love.

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Nathaniel Branden

Nathaniel Branden was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Rand and Branden split acrimoniously in 1968, after which Branden focused on developing his own psychological theories and modes of therapy.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds was an American actor, director and producer. He starred in many television series and feature films, such as Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit and Sharky’s Machine. He won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his role on the sitcom Evening Shade. He also won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in the film Boogie Nights. Reynolds graduated from Palm Beach High School in West Palm Beach, Florida and attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, and played halfback. He was married to actress Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965, and actress Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1993, with whom he adopted a son, Quinton.

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