1

Patricia Polacco

Children's Author

2

Gay Courter

Novelist

3

Alice Walker

Poet

4

Jane Hawking

Non-Fiction Author

5

Fannie Flagg

Novelist

6

John Flanagan

Novelist

7

Kathryn Lasky

Young Adult Author

8

Julie Smith

Novelist

9

Baxter Black

Poet

10

Hugo Dittberner

Novelist

11

Richard Rodriguez

Non-Fiction Author

12

Javed Akhtar

Screenwriter

13

Lurlene McDaniel

Young Adult Author

14

Jack Canfield

Novelist

15

Joy Williams

Novelist

16

James Toback

Screenwriter

17

Rita Mae Brown

Novelist

18

Robert Olen Butler

Novelist

19

Kit Wright

Children's Author

20

John Sandford

Novelist

21

Gary Goldman

Screenwriter

22

Walter Wangerin Jr.

Novelist

23

Richard Ford

Novelist

24

Delia Ephron

Screenwriter

25

Botho Strauß

Playwright

26

Armistead Maupin

Novelist

27

Michael Cristofer

Screenwriter

28

Mourid Barghouti

Poet

29

Joe Eszterhas

Screenwriter

30

Gary Goldberg

Screenwriter

31

Alan Ormsby

Screenwriter

32

Lisa Alther

Novelist

33

Clyde Edgerton

Novelist

34

Donald Glut

Screenwriter

35

Gerald Peary

Screenwriter

36

Tim Heald

Novelist

37

Allen Appel

Non-Fiction Author

38

Marcia Muller

Novelist

39

Craig Raine

Poet

40

Diane Drake

Screenwriter