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Sarah Brady Underwood
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Dan van der Vat
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Rosie Walford
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Susan Warren
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Henrietta Webb
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Marco Pierre White
John Williams
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Stephen Wilson
Daniel H. Wilson
Michael Winter
Kimberly Witherspoon
Dirk Wittenborn
Daniel Wolff
The Writer and the City
Frank Wynne
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Sonja I. Yoerg
Emily Yoffe
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Thomas de Zengotita
Dana Zohar and Ian Marshall
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Cornelius Agrippa
Said Hyder Akbar
A.J. Albany
Mike Albo
Kat Albrecht
Clare Allan
Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Steven Appleby
Eve Arnold
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Chris Bachelder
Iris Bahr
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Kevin Baldwin
Chitrita Banerji
John Banville
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Glen Baxter
Polly Beard & Suzy Barratt
Paul Beatty
Derrick Bell
Alex Bellos
Paula Benson
Ambrose Bierce
Stanley Bing
Neil Bissoondath
Bitter with Baggage
Jonathan Black
Hanne Blank
Heston Blumenthal
Matthew Bogdanos
Rodney Bolt
Bono
Ted Botha
Anthony Bourdain
William Boyd
Sally Ryder Brady
Richard J. Brewer
Carolyn S. Briggs
Joanna Briscoe
Martin Brookes
Mick Brown
David Browne
Jesse Browner
Shannon Brownlee
Alexia Brue
Mark Buchanan
Susan Burton
Akiko Busch
Aldo Buzzi
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Chelsea Cain
Angus Calder
Peter Carey
Lewis Carroll
Steven Carter
Justin Cartwright
Ruy Castro
Javier Cercas
Roz Chast
Ben Cheever
Chieh Chieng
Mary Childers
Susanna Clarke
Jaime Clarke
Stephen Clarke
Guy Claxton
Tim Coates
Matthew Cobb
Paul Collins
Michael Collins
Kevin Conley
David Cordingly
Bronwyn Cosgrave
Daniel Cota
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Cowie
Daniel Coyle
Robert Crumb
Gabi Czerniak
William Czerniak-Jones
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Michael D'Orso
Sophie Dahl
Richard Davenport-Hines
Will Davis
Denys Dawnay
Brian De Vido
Clare de Vries
Sally Denton
Louise DeSalvo
Christopher Dewdney
Silvia di Natale
Dennis Diclaudio
Martin Doerry
Doris Dorrie
Norman Douglas
Ruth Downie
Paul Dowswell
Apostolos Doxiadis
Karen Duve
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Mark Edmundson
Monique El-Faizy
Lucy Ellmann
Heather Ewing
Lucy Eyre
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Adam Feinstein
Anderson Ferrell
Carol Field
Eva Figes
Jeff Fisher
Emily Flake
Bo Fowler
John Freyer
Andrew Friedman
Luciana Frigerio
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James Geary
Lisa Gee
Jonny Geller
Eduardo Gianetti
David Gilbert
Alan Glynn
Gotham Writers' Workshop
Alasdair Gray
Lucy Grealy
Melissa Fay Greene
Seth Greenland
Taras Grescoe
Bruce Grierson
Michael Joseph Gross
Liz Gumbinner
H
Axel Hacke
Shannon Hale
Libby Hall
Susan P. Halpern
Sheila Hancock
Chelsea Handler
Nicholas Harberd
Georgina Harding
Mark Jonathan Harris
A. D. Harvey
Lesley Hazleton
Daniel Hecht
Gijs van Hensbergen
Barbara Holland
Alan Hollinghurst
Hannah Holmes
Nigel Holmes
Richard Horne
Barney Hoskyns
Hugh Howard
Michelle Huneven
Andrew Hussey
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James Innes-Smith
J
Rowan Jacobsen
Diarmuid Jeffreys
Sue Jenner
Liz Jensen
Rebecca Johns
Mat Johnson
Matthew F. Jones
Dylan Jones
Neil Jordan
Sylvia Jorrín
K
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Michael Kaplan
Karen Karbo
Anne Karpf
David Katz
Jessica Kaye
Lucy Kaylin
Pagan Kennedy
Andreas Killen
Nina Killham
Owen King
Jean Klare
Chris Knutsen
Herbert Kohl
Elizabeth Kolbert
Gunnar Kopperud
Steven Kotler
Tim Krabbé
Hugo Kugiya
David Kuhn
Dean Kuipers
L
John Lahr
Lawrence LaRose
Jennifer Lash
David Leavitt
Danny Leigh
J.T. LeRoy
Franz Lidz
Art Linson
Rick Lipsey
Jacqui Lofthouse
Jim Lynch
M
Natalie Maclean
Jacqui Malouf
Silvano Marchetto
Jonathan Margolis
Lou Marinoff
Dave Marsh
Andy Martin
Tomas Eloy Martinez
Susan Maushart
Eugene McCabe
Patrick McCabe
Heather McGowan
Patrick McGrath
Jon McGregor
Gil McNeil
Peter Meehan
Bill Merritt
Howie Michels
David Milch
Rebecca Miller
David Mizner
Peter Morgan
Evan Morris
Walter Mosley
Bernadette Murphy
N
Yolanda Nave
Kamran Nazeer
Ben Neihart
Wililam Newton
Jamyang Norbu
Karen Novak
O
Harriet O'Brien
Deborah Oppenheimer
Peggy Orenstein
Elsa Osorio
Reggie Ossé
KK Ottesen
P
Erna Paris
David Park
Heather Parkinson
Anna Pavord
Britton Payne
Brian Payton
Mervyn Peake
Patricia Pearson
Roger Pearson
Marco Perella
Suneeta Peres da Costa
Justine Picardie
Sara Pinto
Joanna Pitman
Nina Planck
Richard Polsky
Jeremy Poolman
Richard Porter
William Powers
Mark Prendergast
Todd Pruzan
R
Justin Racz
Susi Rajah
Emily Rapp
Jonathan Raymond
Janet Reibstein
Mark Reiter
Tim Richardson
Alyson Richman
Beau Riffenburgh
Ronin Ro
Marion Roach
Maggie Robbins
Joel Rose
Jon Rosen
Josephine Ross
Virginia Rounding
J. K. Rowling
Gus Russo
S
Wendy Salinger
Richard Sandomir
Margaret Sartor
Tanya Sassoon
Dylan Schaffer
Ben Schott
Helen Schulman
Michael Schumacher
Peter Scott
Jeremy Seal
Will Self
Susan Seligson
Shauna Seliy
Kamila Shamsie
Wendy Shanker
Steven Shaw
Jesse Shepard
Sue Shephard
Charles Simic
David J. Skal
Paul Slansky
Edward Sorel
Arleen Sorkin
Tamsin Spargo
Jerry Stahl
Ralph Steadman
Saul Steinberg
Darcey Steinke
Joan Sullivan
Robert Sullivan
Judith Summers
Bruna Surfistinha
Luke Sutherland
Louise van Swaaij
Susan Swan
T
Sloane Tanen
Jason Tanz
Lisa Teasley
Ian Thompson
Sandy Tolan
Gabriel Tolliver
Nick Tosches
Andrew Trees
Joanna Trollope
Sasha Troyan
Ian Van Tuyl
Kenneth Tynan
U
Sarah Brady Underwood
The Urban Historical Series
V
Dan van der Vat
E. Duke Vincent
Neeraja Viswanathan
W
Rosie Walford
Peter Walker
Nick Ward
Susan Warren
Ethan Watters
Henrietta Webb
Paul West
Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy
Edmund White
Marco Pierre White
John Williams
Andrew Wilson
Stephen Wilson
Daniel H. Wilson
Michael Winter
Kimberly Witherspoon
Dirk Wittenborn
Daniel Wolff
The Writer and the City
Frank Wynne
Y
Sonja I. Yoerg
Emily Yoffe
Z
Thomas de Zengotita
Dana Zohar and Ian Marshall
Michael Winter
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The Big Why
© Steve Payne
Michael Winter grew up in Newfoundland, Canada, and now lives in the relative warmth of Toronto. He is the author of four previous books.
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