Alison Pace is the author of the novels If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend, Pug Hill, Through Thick and Thin, City Dog, A Pug’s Tale and of an essay collection, You Tell Your Dog First.

Danielle Paige is a graduate of Columbia University and currently lives in New York City.

best-selling novelist, American-born but British-based.

Amanda’s audience is huge and passionate. (Her viral February 2013 TED talk, “The Art of Asking” – one of TED’s top rated, now viewed nearly 5.5 million times) 

Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California and lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana with his parents and younger sister, Angela.

well known as a scriptwriter for movies and TV and also for her work as director of two feature-films. 

one of Portugal's most acclaimed and bestselling young novelists.

Peters is a correspondent for Slate, the Web’s oldest and most popular daily online magazine, where he writes about crime, technology, and culture. 

Zoe Pilger writes about contemporary art for the Independent and won the 2011 Frieze Writer’s Prize.

writes about the quirky, hidden side of science -- the shocking, subconscious, under-the-radar stuff. She is the author of Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies? 

Agneta Pleijel is born in Stockholm in 1940, but lived in Lund and the U.S. during her childhood. She has worked as a critic and cultural editor of various Swedish newspapers and magazines. 

has penned 41 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock, and record collecting. 

born in 1975, is the author of three story collections and four previous novels, and he also works as a translator and critic. 

was Italian American author and Academy Winner screenwriter,

Kalyan Ray’s family was uprooted from the Ganges Delta (now Bangladesh) through a combination of political upheavals, natural disasters, and poverty. 

Eric Reinhardt lives and works in Paris. As well as being one of the rising stars of contemporary literature in France, he is also a freelance art books publisher and works with famous artists.

has written several realistic and paranormal children’s and young adult novels including the stories about Dalia Dragon Whisperer.

(born 1948) was a lawyer at the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. 

Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers’ Award. 

The American novelist and essayist, Marilynne Robinson was born in November 1943 and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho.