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1
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4
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Karen M. McManus, 56
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7
Madeline Miller, 46
8
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9
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Esther Earl (1994-2010)
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11
Sahara Rose, 34
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Robert Grant (1852-1940)
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Andie Mitchell, 40
14
Victoria Aveyard, 34
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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Piper Kerman, 55
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Susanna Kaysen, 76
18
James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
19
Jon Favreau, 44
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20
Brad Falchuk, 54
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21
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
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William Macdonald (1917-2007)
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John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988)
24
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Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
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Richard Phillips, 70
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Guinevere Turner, 57
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
31
Esther Forbes (1891-1967)
32
Sarah Smith, 77
33
Lillie Marshall, 43
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
35
Jan Brett, 75
36
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
37
Carly Brooke, 35
38
Max Blumenthal, 47
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EE Cummings (1894-1962)
40
Jeff Bauman, 39
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Kurt Busiek, 64
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Lucianne Goldberg (1935-2022)
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Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
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