Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children..

Kerri Maniscalco is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author born and raised in the Hudson Valley of New York, who grew up in a semi-haunted house outside NYC. She is known for the gothic thriller Stalking Jack the Ripper quartet, the Kingdom of the Wicked fantasy romance trilogy, and her adult fantasy romance Prince of Sin series. She was raised to love reading by parents who took her to libraries and bookstores every weekend.

Mai Corland is a Korean American attorney and writer, born in Seoul and adopted into New York. She studied in Florida at Rollins College and the University of Miami. She is the author of the epic fantasy trilogy beginning with Five Broken Blades, followed by Four Ruined Realms, and the romantasy Verity Guild.

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

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school.

Stephen Chbosky is an American film director, screenwriter, and author.