Robert Olen Butler Jessica Zafra Rick Bass Victoria Redel Madison Smartt Bell Stephen Dunn El Doctorow William Trevor Ian Frazier Lawrence Durrell Paul Bowles Lorrie Moore Mark Helprin Jhumpa Lahiri Ralph Ellison Ellison Louise Erdrich Tim O'Brien Zadie Smith Paulo Coelho Philip Roth Salman Rushdie Jerome David Salinger Ernest Hemingway Kurt Vonnegut William Gibson