Past Author Archive

2004/2005

Frances Mayes
Frank Rich
Michael Chabon
Anne Lamott

2005/2006

Alexander McCall Smith
Susan-Lori Parks
Michael Cunningham
Alice Sebold
David Sedaris

2006/2007

Garry Trudeau
J. R. Moehringer
Amy Tan
Azar Nafisi

2007/2008

Frank McCourt
Claire Messud
Erik Larson
Anna Quindlen

2008/2009

David McCullough
Sara Gruen
Carl Hiaasen
Sue Monk Kidd

2009/2010

Khaled Hosseini
David Wroblewski
Wally Lamb
Jodi Picoult

2010/2011

Salman Rushdie
Sarah Vowell
Joyce Carol Oates
Eric Schlosser
Daniel Handler

2011/2012

Jonathan Franzen
Roz Chast
Jeannette Walls
Armistead Maupin
Elizabeth Strout

2012/2013

Margaret Atwood
Terry Tempest Williams
Jeffrey Eugenides
Ann Patchett
Billy Collins

2013/2014

Abraham Verghese
Mary Oliver
Isabel Wilkerson
Geraldine Brooks
Art Spiegelman

2014/2015

Dennis Lehane
Jennifer Egan
Sherman Alexie
Mary Roach

2015/2016

Zadie Smith
James McBride
Meg Wolitzer
Bill Bryson
T. C. Boyle

2016/2017

John Irving
Lauren Groff
Anthony Doerr
Mary Karr
Julia Alvarez

2017/2018

Colson Whitehead
Richard Russo
Katherine Boo
Tony Kushner
Maria Semple

2018/2019

George Saunders
Amor Towles
Celeste Ng
Louise Penny
Michael Beschloss

2019/2020

Jesmyn Ward
Andrew Sean Greer
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Pollan
Min Jin Lee

2020/2021

Timothy Egan
Marlon James
Yotam Ottolenghi
Tayari Jones
Emma Donoghue

2021/2022

Tara Westover
Gregory Maguire
Susan Orlean
Jhumpa Lahiri
Tracy K. Smith &
Kevin Young

2022/2023

Colm Toibin
Barbara Kingsolver
Elizabeth Kolbert
Imbolo Mbue
Dave Eggers

2023/2024

Yaa Gyasi
Frances Mayes & Ruth Reichl
Kristin Hannah
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Michael Chabon
David Grann

2024/2025

Amy Tan
Bonnie Garmus
Erik Larson
Tommy Orange
Ed Yong