Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author.

Gail Honeyman is a Scottish writer whose debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award..

Sarah Crossan is a Young Adult author known for *Toffee*, a novel that explores friendship and coming-of-age themes. Her writing in the YA genre focuses on character-driven narratives that resonate with teen readers.

Tamara Ireland Stone is a New York Times bestselling author of Young Adult and Middle Grade novels, including *Every Last Word*, *Time Between Us*, *Time After Time*, *Click'd*, and *Little Do We Know*. Before writing fiction, she spent nearly two decades in the technology industry and has provided marketing strategy services to leading brands for nearly thirty years.

Gary Gerlacher is a pediatric emergency physician with thirty years in medicine who writes crime fiction, thrillers, and action-adventure novels. His books feature an emergency physician and his K9 partner, Banshee, traveling the country and helping victims. He is the author of the AJ Docker thriller series, including *Last Patient of the Night* and *Sin City Treachery*, and is based in Plano, Texas.