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2024
Program
2024 Writers & Presenters
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Paul Muldoon
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Kaveh Akbar
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Justice Stephen Breyer
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Jeffrey Rosen
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Dennis Lehane
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Mikhail Zygar
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Ayad Akhtar
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Tiya Miles
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Anne Lamott
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Alejandra Campoverdi
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John Vaillant
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Erik Larson
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Clarissa Ward
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Firoozeh Dumas
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Abraham Verghese
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Judy Blume
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Margaret Atwood
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Vinson Cunningham
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Rabbi Sharon Brous
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David Miliband
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James Shapiro
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Jonathan Eig
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Drew Gilpin Faust
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Niall Ferguson
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Kristin Hannah
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Padma Lakshmi
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