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Abbey, Edward 334
Abbott, Lee K. 540
Ackerman, Diane 124–25, 371
Adams, Henry 187
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 496
Agee, James 500
Akhtar, Ayad 512
Alcott, Louisa May 82, 575
Alderman, Naomi 582
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh 68–69
Alexander, Eben 100–101
Alexie, Sherman 409–10
Allen, Woody 590
Allman, T. D. 271–72
Alvarez, Julia 187–88
Amis, Kingsley 516
Anderson, Sherwood 523
Angelou, Maya 581
Angier, Natalie 105
Anthony, Piers 103
Antrim, Donald 514
Ardizzone, Tony 580
Armitage, Simon 345
Ashbery, John 371, 540
Atkinson, Kate 99
Atkinson, Rick 322
Attenborough, David 98–99, 413–14
Atwood, Margaret 121
Auchincloss, Louis 259
Auel, Jean M. 156
Auslander, Shalom 161–62, 589
Austen, Jane 583–84
Auster, Paul 178–79, 191–92
Bailey, Ronald H. 155
Baker, Nicholson 108
Baldwin, James 490
Ballard, J. G. 151
Baltrušaitis, Jurgis 64
Banks, Russell 426–27
Banville, John 189, 236, 545–46
Barnes, Julian 183, 545
Barry, Dave 238
Barth, John 82–83
Barthelme, Donald 318
Bartram, William 415
Bastian, Robert W. 261–62
Beckett, Samuel 180–81, 487–88
Bellow, Saul 184, 259
Bennett, Arnold 518
Berg, David 119
Berlinski, David 150
Berry, Wendell 416
Beston, Henry 332
Beukes, Lauren 550
Bigelow, Jacob 71–72
Binchy, Maeve 544
Birkeland, Peter W. 71
Blume, Judy 548–49
Bock, Dennis 106
Boo, Katherine 537–38
Bourdain, Anthony 595
Bowden, Mark 527
Bowers, Kathryn 438–39
Bowley, Graham 334–35
Box, Hal 245
Boyle, T. C. 253–54
Bradbury, Ray 178
Bradshaw, John 435–36
Brainerd, George W. 100, 234–35
Braun, Ernest 123–24
Breeden, Kay 439
Breeden, Stanley 439
Broks, Paul 577–78
Brontë, Charlotte 509
Brontë, Emily 544
Brown, Dan 549
Brown, Daniel James 543–44
Brown, Peter 58
Brown, Richard 119
Brownlie, Betty 433
Bryson, Bill 160, 408
Burgess, Anthony 588
Burgess, Gemma 257–58
Burke, James Lee 178
Burl, Aubrey 78
Burroughs, Augusten 148–49, 584
Butler, Samuel 576
Byatt, A. S. 65
Cahalan, Susannah 237–38
Canin, Ethan 315
Capote, Truman 503
Carey, Peter 126
Carroll, Sean 154–55
Cary, Joyce 184–85
Castaneda, Carlos 543
Cather, Willa 320, 507
Chabon, Michael 98, 252–53, 334, 529–30
Champigneulle, Bernard 241
Chandler, Raymond 245–46, 278, 553
Chatwin, Bruce 313, 342, 511
Chávez, Denise 501
Cheever, John 594
Cheever, Susan 190
Cheng, Bill 248–49
Child, Lee 516
Childers, Erskine 73
Choi, Susan 192–93, 523
Chopin, Kate 498
Christie, Archibald H. 70
Clancy, Tom 75–76
Clark, Janice 502–3
Clark, Mary Higgins 584
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 277
Clarke, Brock 509
Clarke, David L. 151
Clements, Marcelle 519
Cobb, Jo 409
Collins, George R. 99–100
Collins, Suzanne 536–37
Collins, Wilkie 522
Colloff, Pamela 246
Conley, Susan 264
Connelly, Michael 528
Conrad, Joseph 86, 273–74, 331, 364, 510
Conroy, Frank 319
Conroy, Pat 278, 313
Cooper, James Fenimore 521
Cornwell, Patricia 269, 497
Costello, David F. 85, 432–33
Cozzens, James Gould 238
Crane, Stephen 251, 519, 540
Crichton, Michael 125
Cronin, A. J. 521
Cronin, Edward W., Jr. 430
Crouch, Dora P. 75
Cummings, E. E. 363
Cunningham, Michael 127, 579
Daly, Michael 419–20
Darwin, Charles 75, 424
Davies, Robertson 81
Davis, Kathryn 79–80
Davis, Lydia 68
Davis, Wade 339, 507–8
D’Erasmo, Stacey 62
Defoe, Daniel 530–31
de Kretser, Michelle 273
DeLillo, Don 491
De Vries, Peter 239–40
Diamond, Jared 314
Díaz, Junot 373, 578
Dick, Philip K. 275–76
Dickens, Charles 156–57, 252, 514, 532–33, 587
Dickey, James 188–89, 326
Dillard, Annie 180, 186, 411
Dinesen, Isak 102, 339
Doctorow, E. L. 86, 87, 488
Dolnick, Ben 411
Donahue, Bill 179
Donoghue, Emma 495
Dos Passos, John 105, 270–71
Doyle, Arthur Conan 258, 438
Drabble, Margaret 107
Dreiser, Theodore 505
Duke, Annie 158–59
du Maurier, Daphne 236, 508
Dunant, Sarah 246–47
Duncan, Alastair 118
Dunlop, Storm 373
Durrell, Gerald 185
Durrell, Lawrence 537, 555
Durrell, Lee 185
Egan, Timothy 326
Eifert, Virginia S. 84, 432
Eire, Carlos 102
Eisenberg, Deborah 124, 410
Eliot, George 511
Ellmann, Richard 577
Englander, Nathan 86
Erdrich, Louise 530
Erens, Pamela 592
Estleman, Loren D. 532
Eugenides, Jeffrey 533
Everts, Truman 322–23
Fairstein, Linda 183
Fallon, James 580–81
Farb, Peter 410
Faulkner, William 334, 506, 520
Faust, Ron 123
Fielding, Henry 510–11
Fisher, Adrian 63
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 519
Fitzpatrick, Tracy 61, 277
Flanagan, Richard 87
Foley, Mary Mix 261
Follett, Ken 267
Ford, Ford Madox 186
Ford, Jamie 499
Ford, Richard 491
Forster, E. M. 492
Fowles, John 148, 256, 494, 549–50
Fox, Paula 257
Frank, Dorothea Benton 507
Franzen, Jonathan 517
Frazier, Ian 233–34
Friedhoff, Richard Mark 154
Friedman, Stanton 73
Furst, Alan 369–70
Gaddis, William 596
Gaiman, Neil 494
Gallico, Paul 149
Gardner, John 102
Geroudet, Paul 420–21
Gerster, Georg 63
Ghyka, Matila 153
Gibson, William 332
Gies, Joseph 72
Gimlette, John 239
Gladwell, Malcolm 154
Gleick, James 78–79, 589
Godden, Rumer 122
Godwin, Gail 69–70
Goldberg, Dave 85
Golding, William 335–36
Goodwin, Doris Kearns 248
Gopnik, Adam 235–36
Gordimer, Nadine 125–26
Gordon, Jaimy 535
Gott, J. Richard 149
Graham, Philip 235
Gran, Sara 501–2
Graves, Robert 60
Gray, Henry 67
Green, John 59
Greenblatt, Stephen 243
Greene, Graham 512, 544–45
Greenfield, Karl Taro 576–77
Greenhood, David 64–65, 586
Greenwald, Jeff 58, 586
Greer, Andrew Sean 176–77
Grey, Zane 188, 423–24
Guelzo, Allen C. 320–21
Haggard, H. Rider 65, 317
Hakim, Danny 258
Hall, James Norman 338–39
Hall, Louisa 263
Halle, Louis J. 430–31
Hampl, Patricia 553
Hardy, Thomas 315–16, 552
Harrison, A. S. A. 252
Harte, Bret 345
Harvey, P. D. A. 156
Hawking, Stephen 76
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 159, 319, 366, 513
Heat-Moon, William Least 324–25
Heil, Nick 369
Heller, Joseph 541
Helprin, Mark 80, 422
Hemingway, Ernest 153–54, 323, 418, 423
Herriot, James 436
Hersey, John 88, 249–50
Hessler, Peter 575
Hiaasen, Carl 101, 324
Higginbotham, Adam 100
Highsmith, Patricia 547
Hillenbrand, Laura 118–19, 362, 503–4
Hillerman, Tony 327–28
Hilton, James 69
Himes, Chester 510
Hoagland, Edward 408
Hodgins, Eric 236–37
Hoffman, Carl 98, 260, 364, 531
Holden, Alan 66
Hölldobler, Bert 342
Hollinghurst, Alan 261
Hood, Ann 157
Hope, Anthony 547
Horn, Stacy 255–56
Hosseini, Khaled 548
Howells, Victor 434–35
Howells, William Dean 266
Hoyle, Fred 65
Huang, Eddie 493
Hubbell, Sue 102–3
Hudson, W. H. 83, 328, 425
Hughes, Quentin 62
Hughes, Richard 505
Humes, H. L. 365–66
Hutchins, Ross E. 428
Huxley, Aldous 81–82, 254–55, 438, 504, 524
Innes, Michael 242–43
Irving, John 185, 335
Irving, Washington 238–39, 524–25
Isherwood, Christopher 491–92
Jacobson, Howard 121–22
Jakle, John A. 261–62
James, Henry 240–41, 541, 593
James, P. D. 243–44
Jamieson, Wendell 276
Johnson, Tim 331
Joyce, James 373–74, 519, 525, 535–36
Joyce, Rachel 237
Julavits, Heidi 367
Junger, Sebastian 125, 365, 517–18
Kaku, Michio 147–48
Kaminsky, Stuart M. 578
Kanon, Joseph 271
Karr, Mary 191
Kennedy, A. L. 371
Kennedy, Dan 151–52
Kent, Hannah 545
Kerman, Piper 586
Kesey, Ken 106, 367
Kieran, John 415
Kingsley, Charles 181–82, 365, 554
Kingsolver, Barbara 420, 489
Kipling, Rudyard 103–4, 430, 503
Kirkpatrick, Stacy 153
Kirsch, Jonathan 579
Knowles, John 496
Koestler, Arthur 159–60
Koontz, Dean 240
Kopper, Philip 99, 427
Kosinski, Jerzy 529
Krakauer, Jon 343–44
Lahiri, Jhumpa 279
L’Amour, Louis 78
Lane, Anthony 495–96
Larson, Edwin E. 71
Larson, Erik 64
Latiolais, Michelle 551–52
Lawrence, D. H. 319–20, 512–13
Lawrence, Gale 70–71
Leacock, Stephen 591
le Carré, John 588
Lee, Harper 247–48
Lee, Laurie 279
Le Guin, Ursula K. 316
Leister, Mary 429–30
Leonard, Elmore 511–12
Lethem, Jonathan 275
Levin, Janna 108
Lewis, C. S. 76, 421–22
Lewis, Jason 333
Lewis, Michael 595
Lewis, Richard S. 122
Lewis, Sinclair 257, 515
Liebling, A. J. 548
Line, Les 414
Link, Mardi Jo 269
Lipsey, Rick 323
Lister-Kaye, John 150, 370–71
Littell, Robert 534
Lockley, Ronald 433
Lodge, David 118, 265
Loh, Sandra Tsing 150
London, Jack 342, 508–9
Long, John 434
Lopez, Barry 192, 418
Lorenz, Konrad 412
Lowry, Malcolm 157–58, 370
Loyd, Amy Grace 550
Lyall, Sarah 433
MacDonald, Warren 318–19
Mackenzie, Compton 269–70, 495
MacLean, Alistair 152
Mailer, Norman 493
Malamud, Bernard 494
Mansfield, Katherine 77–78, 267
Mantel, Hilary 241
Marra, Anthony 488
Masini, Lara Vinca 181
Massie, Bob 500
Matthews, Jason 493
Matthiessen, Peter 340, 412–13
Maugham, W. Somerset 526–27, 534
Maxwell, Gavin 124, 321
Maxwell, William 250
Maynard, Joyce 372
McBride, James 525–26
McCann, Colum 316–17
McCarry, Charles 536
McCarthy, Cormac 327, 415–16
McCullers, Carson 341–42
McCullough, Colleen 425
McCullough, David 542
McDermott, Alice 547
McEwan, Ian 84–85, 162, 234, 314, 435, 526
McLain, Paula 188
McMurtry, Larry 266–67
McPhee, John 74–75, 161, 313–14, 343, 527
McPherson, William 272
Mead, Rebecca 587
Meloy, Ellen 177, 325, 413
Melville, Herman 157, 332–33, 420, 513
Menard, H. W. 62–63
Mengestu, Dinaw 270
Meredith, George 514–15
Messud, Claire 147, 538
Meyer, Douglas K. 261–62
Meyer, Philipp 524
Michener, James A. 327, 501
Miller, Henry 178, 263
Miller, Walter M., Jr. 362
Millhauser, Steven 104, 263
Minot, Susan 184
Mitchell, Joseph 274
Mitchell, Margaret 330
Montagu, M. F. Ashley 418, 554
Mooallem, Jon 412, 424–25
Moody, Rick 254
Moore, Kathleen Dean 578–79
Moore, Lorrie 490, 590
Morley, Christopher 500–501
Morley, Sylvanus G. 100, 234–35
Morris, Jan 59, 239, 547–48
Morrison, Phylis 66
Morrison, Toni 181
Mortimer, John 492
Morton, Kate 506
Mosely, Walter 233
Moss, Cynthia 440
Mowat, Farley 336
Mueller, Tom 593
Muir, John 333, 407–8
Muir, Richard 179, 344
Munro, Alice 107, 540–41
Murdoch, Iris 158, 267, 316, 535
Murray, Linda 262
Nabokov, Vladimir 191, 520, 534–35
Nadler, Steven 244
Naipaul, V. S. 126–27
Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara 438–39
Nelson, Antonya 437
Ngugi, Mukoma Wa 366
Niffenegger, Audrey 494–95
Nordhoff, Charles 338–39
Nugent, Rory 487
Oates, Joyce Carol 234
O’Brian, Patrick 156, 436
O’Brien, Edna 249
O’Brien, Tim 120
O’Dell, Scott 421
O’Farrell, Maggie 61–62
O. Henry 533, 543
Ondaatje, Michael 364–65
Orwell, George 126, 520 –21
Pacelle, Mitchell 66, 268
Packer, Ann 537
Palahniuk, Chuck 577
Parker, Robert B. 244, 249
Parkman, Francis 345–46
Paterniti, Michael 159, 590–91
Peattie, Donald Culross 426
Percy, Walker 498
Perry, Richard 103, 419
Pessl, Marisha 490–91
Peterson, Russell 434
Petite, Irving 416–17
Philbrick, Nathaniel 331–32
Poe, Edgar Allan 336, 531–32, 539
Potok, Chaim 276
Powell, Anthony 106–7
Powers, Richard 439
Prescott, William H. 264
Preston, Richard 71
Pringle, Lucy 63
Pronzini, Bill 245
Proulx, Annie 320
Putnam, William C. 150
Pym, Barbara 523–24
Pynchon, Thomas 368
Quindlen, Anna 591–92
Quinn, Kate 498, 551
Quiñonez, Ernesto 244
Raban, Jonathan 343
Rakoff, David 121
Rand, Ayn 258
Rasmussen, Steen Eiler 68, 127
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan 325
Reel, Monte 422
Remnick, David 60
Renault, Mary 189
Rendell, Ruth 264–65
Rhys, Jean 275
Rice, Anne 176, 266
Roach, Mary 582–83
Robb, Graham 267–68
Roberts, Kenneth 343
Roberts, Sam 251
Robinson, Marilynne 76–77, 593–94
Roorbach, Bill 120
Roth, Leland M. 74
Roth, Philip 546
Rowling, J. K. 265, 338, 539
Roy, Arundhati 370
Rushdie, Salman 108, 555
Ruskin, John 65
Russo, Richard 245
Ryden, Hope 417
Sackville, Amy 176
Saki 82, 424
Salinger, J. D. 363, 543
Santomasso, Eugene A. 73–74
Schaefer, Jack 506
Schaffer, Grayson 330
Schaller, George B. 428
Schine, Cathleen 498–99
Schuyler, James 371, 540
Scott, Paul 75, 254
Scott, Sir Walter 151, 241–42, 542
Seabrook, John 321
Sebold, Alice 186–87, 247
Sedaris, David 70, 583
Selasi, Taiye 515
Shackley, Myra 425–26
Shakar, Alex 536
Shapiro, B. A. 276
Sheldrick, Daphne 423
Shelley, Mary 158, 268
Shields, Carol 527–28
Shipstead, Maggie 552–53
Shreeve, James 407
Shute, Nevil 322
Sides, Hampton 66
Silva, Daniel 525
Simon, Noel 420–21
Singer, Mark 582, 594–95
Skloot, Rebecca 81
Skutch, Alexander F. 84
Slouka, Mark 511
Smith, Alexander McCall 588
Smith, Arthur 69
Smith, Martin Cruz 79, 104–5
Smith, Patti 189–90
Smith, Zadie 242, 315, 595–96
Smollett, Tobias 265
Solomon, Deborah 583
Sotomayor, Sonia 274
Spruch, Grace Marmor 272–73, 414
Steel, Rodney 432
Stegner, Wallace 105–6, 250
Stein, Gertrude 504
Steinbeck, John 260, 340–41, 431–32, 522
Stephenson, Carl 85–86
Sterne, Laurence 122
Stevens, Chevy 273
Stevenson, Robert Louis 120, 329
Stewart, Amy 575–56
Stewart, George R. 80, 363
Stoker, Bram 160, 368
Stone, Robert 324, 341, 497
Stott, Andrew McConnell 580
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 106
Strand, Mark 522
Strauss, Darin 510
Strayed, Cheryl 346, 513
Stromberg, Joseph 505
Stuart, Andrea 340
Stuart, Sarah Payne 241
Styron, William 237, 532, 550–51
Sweeney, R. C. H. 426
Taglianti, Augusto 417
Tan, Amy 80–81
Targ, Russell 580
Tarkington, Booth 271
Tartt, Donna 366–67
Teale, Edwin Way 330–31, 437
Terres, John K. 190, 428–29
Thackeray, William 518
Theroux, Paul 246, 251, 314–15, 326, 528, 554
Thomas, D. M. 161, 372
Thomas, Lewis 83
Thomson, Peter 344–45
Thoreau, Henry David 337
Thorne, Kip S. 83–84
Thornton, Ian 431
Tobey, G. B. 148
Tobias, Michael 262
Tolkien, J. R. R. 162, 368
Tomlinson, H. M. 337–38
Traven, B. 328
Tuchman, Barbara W. 193
Turow, Scott 256–57
Twain, Mark 120, 177, 337, 502, 516–17
Tyson, Neil deGrasse 87
Updike, John 67, 86, 372, 488–89, 538
Urrea, Luis Alberto 317–18
Vidal, Gore 553–54
Vinge, Vernor 261
Viramontes, Helena Maria 589
Vollmann, William T. 259
Vonnegut, Kurt 502
Vowell, Sarah 329–30
Waldman, Adelle 587
Walker, Alice 499
Wallace, Alfred Russel 179–80
Wallace, Robert 101
Walls, Jeannette 497
Walter, Jess 233
Waltham, Tony 61
Ward, Jesmyn 242, 327, 408–9, 585
Warren, Robert Penn 185–86, 260
Wasson, Sam 592
Watkins, Claire Vaye 268–69
Waugh, Evelyn 514, 516
Weiner, Jonathan 429
Wells, H. G. 61, 127, 193, 277–78, 373, 409, 546
Wells, Kellie 584–85
West, Nathanael 235
West, Rebecca 123
Wharton, Edith 247, 520
White, Bailey 262
White, Edmund 365
White, T. H. 160–61, 369, 427
Whitney, Stephen 436–37
Wideman, John Edgar 368–69
Wilde, Oscar 517
Wilkinson, Alec 77
Wilkinson-Latham, Robert 60
Wilsey, Sean 317
Wilson, Edmund 248
Wilson, Edward O. 342
Wilson, Vivian J. 190–91, 411
Winchester, Simon 328–29
Wister, Owen 183
Wolfe, Thomas 530
Wolfe, Tom 255, 581–82
Wolitzer, Meg 182–83
Woolf, Virginia 87, 155
Wouk, Herman 182
Yates, Richard 253