Percival Leonard Everett II is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist, short story author, essayist, and travel writer.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American author best known for her novels The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & the Six, One True Loves, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto Is Back, and Atmosphere.

Born in Nagasaki and raised in Britain from the age of five, **Sir Kazuo Ishiguro** has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.

Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author.