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Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer.



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Richard Dawkins, previously Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

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Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. “One of the most celebrated writers of his generation,” according to the Virginia Quarterly Review.

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Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University.

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Daniel Dennett, University Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.

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