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Ana Castillo

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Ridley Pearson

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Melissa Fay Greene

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Paul Haggis

Screenwriter

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Sky Gilbert

Playwright

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Rita Dove

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Alile Larkin

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Alison Baker

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Michael Cunningham

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Alison Lester

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Alan Gibbons

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Robin McKinley

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Steven Raichlen

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Duncan Tucker

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Andrew Motion

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Giannina Braschi

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Ken Tucker

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Joseph Bathanti

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Michael Dinner

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Leslie Newman

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Loren D. Estleman

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Justin Fleming

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Steven Zaillian

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Jo Shapcott

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Robert Crais

Novelist

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