American Young Adult author

He has now left the police force and to become a full-time writer.

Mihály Dés (Budapest, 1950) is a Hungarian writer, editor and cultural developer living in Barcelona since 1986. 

Editor-in-Chief of Garden & Gun magazine

a poet, illustrator and writer who was once described as the cunning combination of “Lady Gaga and Mother Goose.” 

is a best-selling American author of romance novels.

Doug Dorst is the author of Alive in Necropolis, which was honored as San Francisco’s 2009 One City One Book selection, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of 2008 and many others prestigious awards.

Professor of Modern Italian History at Reading University

received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature.

Zeke Emanuel is an American National Institutes of Health bioethicist, and fellow at the nonprofit bioethics research institute The Hastings Center

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Maria Ernestam has always had books around her, and writing became a natural activity, first as a journalist and now as one of Sweden’s most interesting and most appreciated writers. 

was born in Mexico City in 1950. She began her career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim and winning several awards. 

is the #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box. Each of his eighteen novels has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list; there are more than 14 million copies of his books in print worldwide.

Bi Feiyu is one of the most respected authors and screenwriters in China today.

is the award-winning author of Happiness™, Spanish Fly, Beyond Belfast and 419. He lives in Calgary with his wife and their two sons.

Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Still Life, Charley's Web, Heartstopper, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels.

as born in Minsk, in the former Soviet Union, in 1979, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine...