Raymond Khoury, author of "Rasputin's Shadow"; Elizabeth Heiter, author of "Hunted"; Jenny Milchman, author of "Ruin Falls"; Carla Norton, author of "The Edge of Normal"; Alan Jacobson, author of "Spectrum"; Kira Peikoff, author of "No Time to Die".

Nicole C. Kear, author of "Now I See You"; Christopher Beha, author of "Arts and Entertainments"; Kerry Zukus, co-author of "Inside Hotel Rwanda".

George Prochnik, author of "The Impossible Exile, Stefan Zweig at the End of the World"; Boris Fishman, author of "The Replacement Life"; Antonin Baudry, author of "Weapons of Mass Diplomacy".

Kelly Cogswell, author of "Eating Fire"; Gwen Edelman, author of "The Train to Warsaw"; John Wareham, author of "How to Survive a Bullet in the Heart".

Karin Slaughter, author of "Unseen"; Henry Chang, author of "Death Money"; Maria Konnikova, author of "Mastermind".

Andre Aciman, author of "Out of Egypt" and "Harvard Square"; Aleksandar Hemon, author of "The Book of My Lives"; Joan Silber, author of "Fools".

Scott Turow, author of "Presumed Innocent" and "Identical"; Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of "Admission" and "You Should Have Known"; Stephan Talty, author of "Captain Phillips" and "Hangman".

David Epstein, author of "The Sport Gene"; David M. Howitt, author of "Heed You Call"; Giovanni Frazzetto, author of "Joy, Guilt, Anger, and Love".

Mark Slouka, author of "Brewster"; Lara Vapnyar, author of "Scent of Pine"; Edmund White, author of "Inside a Pearl".

Mike Offit, author of "Nothing Personal"; Harlow Giles Unger, author of "Mr. President"; Judith Glazer, author of "Conversational Intelligence".