is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she is also the chair of the History and Literature Program. 

Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications, including the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday, the Oldie,Art+Review and the Times Literary Supplement. 

Simone Lia began painting and drawing in her Dad’s tool shed at the age of 13. After studying at the University of Brighton she went on to write and illustrate books for children.

Italian author

Jonathan Littell was born in New York of American parents, and grew up in the United states and in France. He now lives in Spain. 

As a journalist with special interest in criminology and police history Pontus Ljunghill had a deep well to dig from when he wrote his first crime novel, An Invisible.

Alex London writes books for adults, children and teens.

born in Pisa in 1974 and a Chemistry researcher for the university, made his debut in 2007 with La briscola in cinque (17 editions), 

English bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist and critic. The Man Booker Prize double winner (2009 & 2012).

author of many published books on science, politics and history for a young adult audience. He has won two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships.

an award-winning Spanish novelist.

David has been a journalist for 15 years, including 7 years as crime reporter with Yorkshire Post in their Hull office.

food writer and stylist. 

The most important literary phenomenon in Latin America since Gabriel García Márquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.’

was born in Puebla, México in 1949. She worked as a journalist before her first novel ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA (1986) suddenly propelled her to worldwide literary prominence, achieving both critical and commercial success.  

Jenna McCarthy is the author of If It Was Easy, They’d Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon (Berkley, 2011), and over the past two decades she has written for more than 50 magazines. 

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island. He later went to Chicago, where he worked as an auto mechanic while writing his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. 

Mary McCartney worked with her mother on her range of vegetarian cookbooks and has been a consultant on the brand for Linda McCartney foods for over a decade.

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford.