Participants
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Russell Shorto
Photo by Pamela Twigg
Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World, Amsterdam, Revolution Song, and Smalltime, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Cumberland, Maryland.
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Jennifer Egan
Photo by Pieter van Hattam
Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was recently named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and several others. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine. She recently completed a term as President of PEN America.
