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Celebrate Black History Month with SVWC
February is Black History Month, and at SVWC we are celebrating the important contributions of Black authors…
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Robert Gates

Maira Kalman

Peter Matthiessen

Thomas Cahill

Frank McCourt

Mark Salzman

Ridley Pearson

Colson Whitehead

David Brooks

Justice Stephen Breyer

Edwidge Danticat

Ian McEwan

Jeffrey Toobin

Firoozeh Dumas

David Halberstam

Michael Ondaatje

Ethan Canin

Robert Caro

A. Scott Berg

Judith Freeman

Abraham Verghese

Karl Fleming

Anne Lamott

Mitch Albom

John Burnham Schwartz

Strobe Talbott

Tom Brokaw

Rick Atkinson

John Lithgow

Doris Kearns Goodwin

David McCullough

Naomi Shihab Nye

Anne Enright

Anne Taylor Fleming

Sandra Day O’Connor

Calvin Trillin

Liaquat Ahamed

Juliette Kayyem

Billy Collins

Richard Ford

John Lewis

William Styron

Mary Karr

Alexandra Fuller

Annette Gordon-Reed

Jeffrey Brown

Dave Eggers

Anna Quindlen

Thomas McGuane

Thomas Friedman

Van Gordon Sauter

Craig Johnson

Simon Winchester

Walter Isaacson

Anthony Doerr

Jessica Yu

W. S. Merwin

Alexander McCall Smith

Sharon Olds

Isabel Wilkerson

Dave Barry

E. O. Wilson

Bryan Stevenson

Salman Rushdie

Ayad Akhtar
