Alice Mcdermott Jamaica Kincaid Joan Didion Alexander Solzhenitsen Tracy Kidder Tobias Wolff Jhumpa Lahri Anne Morrow Lindbergh John Gardner Sara Paretsky John Ross Ann Tyler Raymond Carver Ursula Hegi A.S. Byatt Flannery O'Connor William Carlos Williams James Carse Sam Shephard Padgett Powell Ethan Coen Haruki Murikami Chuck Palahniuck Amy Sohn Ann Beattie David Berman Charles Portis Ian Pears Dan Chaon John Eldridge Arturo Perez Reverte John Cheever Thom Jones Lorrie Moore J. Hali Steele B.S. Johnson Henry Alford Herman Mellville Richard Foster James Tate Cormac Mccarthy Richard Russo Francine Rivers Andrew Vachss Nabakov Hubert Selby Thomas Hardy William Faulkner Phillip Roth