- Stephen King, author of The Stand, 11/22/63, and The Dead Zone
- Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms
- JD Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
- Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
- Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather
- David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried
- Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward
- Thich Nhat Hanh, author of The Miracle of Mindfulness and Living Buddha, Living Christ
- Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Meditation is Not What You Think
