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Coming of Age

Shalom Auslander

Author of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

R. Dwayne Betts

Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice

Wendy Burden

Author of Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir

Jared Cohen

Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

Junot Díaz

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the international bestseller, Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo

Jean Kwok

Author of Girl in Translation

Jillian Lauren

New York Times-bestselling Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

Nami Mun

Author of Miles From Nowhere

Bich Minh Nguyen

Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls

Ariel Sabar

Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past

Mahbod Seraji

Author of Rooftops of Tehran

Elif Shafak

Award-winning, Best-selling, and Internationally Acclaimed Turkish Author

Josh Sundquist

Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture