Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
21st-century american women writers
Claudia Rankine
American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies
Ruth Reichl
American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS’s Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine
Anne Rice
American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature
Nancy Pearl
American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library
Gloria Naylor
American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place , Linden Hills and Mama Day .
Toni Morrison
American novelist
Valeria Luiselli
Mexican author living in the United States
Donna Leon
American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti
Jill Lepore
American historian and journalist