- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Jeff Smith
- Samuel Beckett
- Gary D. Schmidt
- Michael Cunningham
- Eugene O'Neill
- H.W. Brands
- Richard Bausch
- John Edgar Wideman
- Chris Crowe
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- T.H. Breen
- Robert A. Divine
- George M. Fredrickson
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Randy W. Roberts
- José Antonio Burciaga
- Pauli Murray
- R. Hal Williams
- R. Williams