Alice Munro Jane Urquhart Ann Patchett Michael Ondaatje Jane Smiley Carol Shields Sue Monk Kidd Anton Chekhov Elizabeth Hay Bonnie Burnard Margaret Drabble Doris Lessing John Cheever Margaret Atwood Pat Barker Kate Atkinson John C. Gardner Louise Erdrich Lorrie Moore Anne Tyler Margaret Laurence Carson Mccullers Richard Powers Kate Grenville Elizabeth Strout William Maxwell William Trevor Joy Williams Joyce Carol Oates Anita Brookner Richard Ford Robertson Davies Richard Russo Nadine Gordimer Peter Hoeg A.S. Byatt Roddy Doyle Dan Chaon Kurt Guggenheim Katherine Mansfield Per Petterson Birgit Vanderbeke Rick Moody Alice Hoffman Paul Theroux Martin Amis Iris Murdoch Barbara Kingsolver