Nigerian-born author of three books, including Purple Hibiscus (awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) and Half of a Yellow Sun (awarded the Orange Prize). She received a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship.

2009 Winner of the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, "the first great 9/11 novel."

Afghan-American author & physician known for his stunning novels about Afghanistan: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commission on Refugees.

The 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) and most recently of the award-winning Cleopatra: A Life.

Author of nine novels including Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; and Shutter Island; Lehane has also written screenplays for the popular cable TV series, The Wire.

Author of a story collection and four novels. A Visit From the Goon Squad recently won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Food writer for the New York Times, Times Magazine, and food52.com, Hesser's books include The Essential New York Times Cookbook and Eat, Memory.