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John Grisham
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David McCullough
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Shelby Foote
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Joyce Carol Oates
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William Kennedy
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William Manchester
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Margaret Atwood
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E.L. Doctorow
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Dr. John Hope Franklin
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Neil Simon
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David McCullough
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Ray Bradbury
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Peter Matthiessen
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Norman Mailer
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Eudora Welty
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John le Carré
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Saul Bellow
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Toni Morrison
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John Updike
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Larry McMurtry
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