American actress, comedienne and author. She is perhaps best known for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes; 

 is a Norwegian author. 

Krista Foss lives in the post-industrial paradise of Hamilton, Ontario where she writes, teaches and walks her dogs.

was born in 1975, and in addition to being a writer of literary non-fiction is a medical doctor.

Anna is in her early-30s and a lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, as well as a multiple slam-winning performance poet.

Matti Friedman is a correspondent with The Associated Press. He has reported from Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

writes about European economics and financial regulation for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, based in Brussels, Belgium.

Helen Giltrow was born and brought up in Cheltenham and read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. 

is a senior feature writer for the Sunday Times Magazine.

award-winning composer.

is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever (Free Press, 2010) and the co-owner, with Ruth Curry, of an independent ebookstore, Emily Books, which picks one book a month to send to subscribers.  

Seth Grahame-Smith is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," and "Unholy Night." 

Dr. Ross W. Greene is associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child. 
 

one of America's most provocative non-fiction writers. 

Born in Jerusalem in 1954, David Grossman is a leading Israeli writer of his generation and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Vasily Grossman was born into a Jewish family in the Ukraine in 1905. He studied Chemistry at university, but soon gave in to his passion for literature. He published his first novel, Glyukauf, in 1933.

born in Madrid in 1944. He was initially involved in the world of publishing as the director of the magazine Cuadernos Para El Dialogo, and later as editorial director of the publishing houses Taurus and Alfaguara.

Everything Elizabeth Gummesson does originates from one thing, the fundamental belief that people are capable of making changes in their lives. 

Born in 1976, on the island of Rhodes in Greece. Hakan Günday currently lives in İstanbul.

President of the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science.