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LOUIS BEGLEY was born in Poland and is a Holocost Survivor. He is the
author of: Wartime Lies , The Man Who Was Late, As Max Saw It, About
Schmidt, Mistler's Exit, Schmidt Delivered, Das Gelobte Land, Venedig
unter vier Augen (with Anka Muhlstein, Shipwreck, Matters of Honor, and
numerous essays and articles. About Schmidt was made into a Jack
Nicholson film. He is a Harvard graduate and his prizes include: The
Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, National Book Award
Finalist, National Book Critics' Circle Finalist, PEN/Ernest Hemingway
Foundation Award, Prix Médicis Étranger, Jeanette-Schocken-Preis,
Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur, American Academy of Letters
Award in Literature, Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Literaturpreis, past
President PEN American Center; Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

KIMBERLA LAWSON ROBY, New York Times Bestselling Author, has written
eight novels which include, Changing Faces, The Best-Kept Secret, Too
Much of a Good Thing, A Taste of Reality, It’s a Thin Line, Casting the
First Stone, Here and Now, and her debut title, Behind Closed Doors,
which was originally self-published through her own company, Lenox
Press. Her novels have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including
The New York Times and those in Essence Magazine, Upscale Magazine,
Emerge Magazine, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, The Dallas
Morning News, and The Austin Chronicle to name a few. Both Behind Closed
Doors and Casting the First Stone were #1 Blackboard bestsellers for
four consecutive months in 1997 and 2000 respectively. Behind Closed
Doors was the #1 Blackboard Best-selling book for paperback fiction in 1997.

CHARLES BAXTER is the author of 2000 National Book Award Finalist and
bestseller, The Feast of Love, which has been made into a new film
starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, and is an imaginative
retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Perhaps best known for his
fiction set in the middle America, its people and relationships, he is
unique in his ability to reveal the extraordinary in the world of
ordinary people. His characters have a wide range of obsessions,
occupations and dilemmas, which he renders with intelligence and
compassion. His latest novel, The Soul Thief, will be published in
spring 2008. In addition to being nominated for the 2000 National Book
Award for Fiction, The Feast of Love won the Prix de St. Valentine in
its French translation, and the Catalan Booksellers Association Award as
book of the year in Spain. Baxter is also the recipient of the Award in
Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

LOUISE ERDRICH’s first book of poems, Jacklight, was published in 1983,
followed a year later by Love Medicine, which won the National Book
Critics Circle Award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters,
and other prizes. Love Medicine eventually became the first novel in a
remarkable series that would include, The Beet Queen, Tracks, The Bingo
Palace, Tales of Burning Love, The Antelope Wife,Four Souls, The Master
Butchers Singing Club and The Painted Drum. In addition to these novels,
Erdrich’s publications include a collaborative novel, The Crown of
Columbus (written with Michael Dorris), another book of poetry Baptism
of Desire, and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, a
finalist for the National Book Award. The Plague of Doves will be
published by HarperCollins Publishers in May 2008.