novelist

William Faulkner

American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life

Anita Desai

Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Junot Diaz

Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review