Ali MacGraw,
Actor

Kay Redfield Jamison, foremost expert on manic-depression,
An Unquiet Mind,
A Memoir of Moods &
Madness; The Creative Spirit & Manic Depression

Deborah Tannen,
Linguistic professor at
Georgetown University and author of the best-seller
You Just Don't Understand

Mary Catherine Bateson,
Margaret Mead's daughter, author of Composing a Life, & With a Daughter's eye; a Memoir of
Margaret Mead & Gregory Bateson

Adrienne Rich,
Prize-winning poet
Diving into the Wreck

Rita Dove,
past Poet Laureate

Carol Shields,
author of the best-seller
The Stone Diaries

Marilyn Mason,
nationally renowned
psychologist and author, Seven Mountains &
Making Your Life Your Own.
She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Sally Denton,
Las Vegas ; The Power & the Money,
and Faith and Betrayal;
The Mormon Massacre

Sallie Bingham, author of Passion & Prejudice: a Family Memoir; Transgressions

Lesley Hazleton,
expert on Biblical history,
Mary: A Flesh & Blood
Biography of the Virgin Mother

Lynn Nicholas, award-winning author of The Rape of Europa: the Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich