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Andie Mitchell, 40
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Madeline Miller, 47
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Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
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Henry Adams (1838-1918)
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Piper Kerman, 55
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Esther Earl (1994-2010)
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Guinevere Turner, 57
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Victoria Aveyard, 35
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Kurt Busiek, 65
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Robert Grant (1852-1940)
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Karen M. McManus, 56
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Sahara Rose, 34
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Richard Phillips, 70
19
Lydia Davis, 78
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
21
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
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James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
23
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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Born in Massachusetts
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Ram Dass (1931-2019)
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Jared Diamond, 88
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Susanna Kaysen, 76
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Lydia Millet, 56
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
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Max Brallier, 42
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Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
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Jan Brett, 75
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David Shiner, 72
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Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927)
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Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)
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Jon Favreau, 44
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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
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