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Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
Queen Noor of Jordan
Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist
E. L. James
British writer
David Suzuki
Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
Patricia Cornwell
American novelist, journalist, biographer
James Ellroy
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist (born 1948)
Alain de Botton
Swiss-born British philosopher and writer
Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, civil servant, author, public intellectual, diplomat, and bureaucrat. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and ran for the office of Secretary-General in 2006, coming second.
Busy Philipps
Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Dawson's Creek (2001–2003), and ER (2006–2007), and for her portrayal of Laurie Keller on the ABC/TBS television sitcom Cougar Town (2009–2015), for which she received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Janelle Brown
Janelle Brown is an American novelist.
Kevin Bleyer
Kevin Bleyer was an American television writer and producer. He won multiple Emmy, Peabody, and Writers Guild Awards Bleyer was a writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a contributor to President Barack Obama's speeches, the author of the best-selling Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution, a co-author of the #1 NY Times Bestseller Earth: The Book, and the co-author, with Governor Bill Richardson, of How to Sweet-Talk a Shark. In 2008, he became a member of t...
Anita Daniel
Anita Daniel (1892–1978) was a Romanian-born German-American author and journalist known for her contributions to transatlantic understanding and cultural exchange between Europe and America. Throughout her career, she has focused on elucidating European affairs for American audiences and vice versa. Daniel, who grew up in Paris, France, was multilingual, fluent in French and Italian. Her syndicated newspaper columns and numerous publications have been translated into several languages, inclu...
Milan Kundera
Czech and French novelist (1929–2023)
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish author and screenwriter (1907–2002)
Dennis Lehane
American novelist (born 1965)
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate (born 1952)
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
Marianne Williamson
American political activist
Amitav Ghosh
Indian writer
John Boyne
Irish novelist (born 1971)
Stendhal
French writer (1783–1842)
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
John of the Cross
Spanish Catholic priest and Christian mystic (1542–1591)
José Saramago
Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)