Robert Olen Butler

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13

Tobias Wolff

Novelist

14

Dean Koontz

Novelist

15

Leif GW Persson

Novelist

16

Lair Ribeiro

Self-Help Author

17

Javed Akhtar

Screenwriter

18

Posy Simmonds

Children's Author

19

Whitley Strieber

Novelist

20

Rita Mae Brown

Novelist

21

Hugo Dittberner

Novelist

22

Anne Waldman

Poet

23

Steve Sohmer

Non-Fiction Author

24

Annie Dillard

Non-Fiction Author

25

Vivian French

Children's Author

26

John Perkins

Non-Fiction Author

27

Wendy Cope

Poet

28

Gary Goldman

Screenwriter

29

Joan Murray

Poet

30

Susan Swan

Novelist

31

Patrick Modiano

Novelist

32

Katherine Neville

Novelist

33

Botho Strauß

Playwright

34

Michael Cristofer

Screenwriter

35

Bruce H. Lipton

Non-Fiction Author

36

Gerald Peary

Screenwriter

37

Marcia Muller

Novelist

38

John Howkins

Novelist

39

Josephine Humphreys

Novelist

40

Diane Drake

Screenwriter

41

Richard Dubin

Screenwriter

42

Allen Appel

Non-Fiction Author

43

Wayne Karlin

Essayist

44

Craig Raine

Poet

45

Norman Dubie

Poet

46

Susie Morgenstern

Children's Author

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