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Piper Kerman, 55
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Karen M. McManus, 56
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Guinevere Turner, 57
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Victoria Aveyard, 35
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Richard Phillips, 70
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Kurt Busiek, 64
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Robert Grant (1852-1940)
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Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
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James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Sahara Rose, 34
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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Brad Falchuk, 54
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Jared Diamond, 88
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Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)
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Lydia Millet, 56
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Shion Takeuchi, 37
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David Shiner, 72
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Elizabeth George Speare (1908-1994)
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Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927)
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Jon Favreau, 44
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