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Children
Sponsored by AT&T
- Buzz Aldrin & Wendell Minor
- David Baldacci
- Doreen Cronin & Harry Bliss
- Hilary Knight
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Laura Numeroff
- Mary Pope Osborne & Will Osborne
- Linda Sue Park
- Gloria Jean Pinkney
- Jerry Pinkney
- Sandra Pinkney
- NBA & WNBA
Teens & Children
Sponsored by Target
- Meg Cabot
- Sharon Creech
- John Feinstein
- Jack Gantos
- Patricia Reilly Giff
- Pat Mora
- Walter Dean Myers
- Dave Pelzer
- RenĂ© Saldaña
- R.L. Stine
- Letters About Literature
Fiction & Fantasy
Sponsored by The James Madison Council
- E. L. Doctorow
- Richard Paul Evans
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Diana Gabaldon
- Neil Gaiman
- John Irving
- Gish Jen
- Sue Monk Kidd
- George R. R. Martin
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Tom Wolfe
Mysteries & Thrillers
Sponsored by The Amend Group
History & Biography
Sponsored by AARP
- David Brooks
- Andrew Carroll
- Robert L. Carter
- Joseph Ellis
- Thomas Friedman
- Robert MacNeil
- David McCullough
- Andrea Mitchell
- Steven V. Roberts
Home & Family
Sponsored by Target
- Giada De Laurentiis
- Myrka Dellanos
- Fernando & Marlene Divina
- Leeza Gibbons
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Bob Kinkead
- Chris Madden
- Laurie Smith
- Julie Sussman &
Stephanie Glakas-Tenet - David Tutera
- Judith Warner
Poetry
Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts
- Kim Addonizio
- Marisa de los Santos
- Alice Fulton
Dana Gioia - Donald Hall
- Andrew Hudgins
- Dolores Kendrick
- David Kirby
- Samuel Menashe
- Mary Jo Salter
- A.E. Stallings
- Christian Wiman
- Al Young
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