Ayelet
Waldman is an essayist and author of several books including Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and The New York Times bestseller
Bad
Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments
of Grace. Her personal essays and profiles of such public figures as
Hillary Clinton have been published in a wide variety of newspapers and
magazines, including The New York Times, Vogue, The Washington Post, and
The Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a
former criminal defense lawyer. Waldman currently lives in Berkeley, California
with her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband Michael Chabon, their four children,
and their Bernese mountain dog Fanny.
David Birney is an American
actor and director whose career performances include both contemporary and
classical roles in theater, film and television. He has recorded numerous
audiobook bestsellers, including works by Dean Koontz, Paul Theroux, Annie
Dillard, Thomas Kenneally, and Orson Scott Card. His reading of Julie Salomon’s
The Christmas Tree was honored with the
prestigious Audie Award and has also been the recipient of several AudioFile Earphone
Awards.
Ann Patchett is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction. She has won many prizes, including Britain’s Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Prize, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novels Bel Canto and The Patron Saint of Liars have been made into major motion pictures. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She has written for many publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Vogue.
Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, Year of Wonders, and People of the Book and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. She was previously a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.
Neil Gaiman is the author of several #1 New York Times bestsellers, including Norse Mythogy, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and Anansi Boys, and others, as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. His fiction has received Newbery, Carnegie, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner awards. His novel American Gods aired as a TV series in 2017. Originally from England, he lives in the United States, where he is a professor at Bard College.
Judith Light is
a two-time Tony Award–winning actress, winning Best Performance by a Featured
Actress in a Play for both The Assembled
Parties and Other Desert Cities.
She also won Drama Desk Awards for both of these roles. Judith’s television
career began with the role of Karen Wolek on One Life to Live, for which she won two “Best Actress” Emmy Awards.
She has many more stage, film, and television roles to her credit as well.
Michael C. Hall is an American actor, known for his award-winning role as Dexter Morgan in the Showtime television series Dexter and as David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. He has also starred in nearly a dozen major off-Broadway plays, including Macbeth for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and he performs in independent motion pictures. His audiobook narrations have earned him an AudioFile Earphones Award.
Norbert Leo Butz is an American actor, singer, and narrator best known for his work in Broadway theater. He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and is one of only nine actors ever to have won the award twice as lead actor.
Blair Underwood is an author and award-winning actor, director, and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Brian d’Arcy James is an American actor and musician whose on and off Broadway credits include Time Stands Still, Sweet Smell of Success, The Good Thief, Titanic, and Shrek. In 2009, his performance as Shrek in Shrek the Musical earned him his second Tony nomination. He is also an accomplished concert performer and has had the honor of performing for President Clinton and for President Obama and the First Family. He currently resides in New York City with his wife and daughter.
Heather Alicia Simms is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, finalist for an Audie Award, and an actress. Her filmography includes Broken Flowers, Flutter Kick, Shock Act, Kingscounty, Head of State, Third Watch, and others. She also provided voice acting for the video game Red Dead Revolver.
Zachary Quinto grew up in Pittsburgh. He has had guest starring roles on such shows as Touched By an Angel, CSI, Six Feet Under, and Crossing Jordan. In 2004, he spent an entire season as computer analyst Adam Kaufman on FOX’s highly rated drama 24. He is best known to date for his role as Sylar, the super powered psychopathic serial killer on the NBC smash hit series Heroes. In May 2009, Quinto appeared as Spock in the blockbuster reboot of the Star Trek franchise, directed by J. J. Abrams. He lives in Los Angeles.