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Nicholas Sparks

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• № 1Wrote A Walk to Remember, which helped Zoe Allyn.

Ray Bradbury

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• № 2Wrote The Martian Chronicles, beloved by Lynn Glass.
• № 41Abby Moeller recalls a documentary showing him with a cat on his shoulders.

J.K. Rowling

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• № 8Wrote Harry Potter. Michelle L. Villa: “J.K. Rowling saved my life.”
• № 16Inspired Ulysses Guerra to write.

Janet Evanovich

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• № 6Wrote the Stephanie Plum series that Nicole M. Bohr read in hospital.

John Sandford

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• № 6A Minnesota author Aunt Shari introduced to Nicole M. Bohr.

Julie Kramer

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• № 6A Minnesota author Aunt Shari introduced to Nicole M. Bohr.

Sophie Kinsella

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• № 9Wrote Finding Audrey, which helped Kathryn M. Banks.

James Dashner

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• № 12Author of The Maze Runner; Kendra Olson went to her first Comic Con panel to see him.

Pierce Brown

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• № 12Author of Red Rising; he replied to Kendra Olson that hope is already inside her.

Cassandra Clare

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• № 13Wrote City of Bones; Lilly Santiago was scrolling her Tumblr the night bad news came.
• № 19H.B.D. calls her “Cassie.”
• № 32Audra Fetherolf is “forever indebted” to her.

John Green

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• № 18Wrote Paper Towns, one of Alex’s three books.

Bill Konigsberg

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• № 18Wrote Openly Straight, one of Alex’s three books.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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• № 18Wrote Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, one of Alex’s three books.

E.L. James

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• № 21Wrote Fifty Shades of Grey, which quieted C.A. Thomas’s mind.

Sarah J. Maas

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• № 29Wrote A Court of Thorns and Roses, which carried Jennifer Cazey Daniels through her mum’s illness.
• № 44Wrote Empire of Storms, which kept Yesenia M. Collado going.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• № 2Lynn Glass can still recite the poems she memorized for speech class.
• № 30His “Annabel Lee” in The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe showed Ashlyn Cowart she could go on.

Lauren Oliver

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• № 33Wrote Delirium; Barbara Kljaić is “so enormously thankful to her.”

C.S. Lewis

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• InQuoted in the introduction: “But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
• № 38His Narnia gave Ana Paula Camacho Perez her first words.

Michael Crichton

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• № 39Wrote Jurassic Park, one of J.D. Netto’s first books in America.

Mark Twain

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• № 39Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, found by J.D. Netto at a thrift store.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Also known as Tolkien

• № 39His The Lord of the Rings inspired J.D. Netto to discover other fantasy and to write.

Sylvia Plath

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Also known as Plath

• № 41Wrote The Bell Jar, which helped Abby Moeller through grief.

Rick Riordan

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• № 42Wrote Percy Jackson & the Olympians, which won over Emilie Messavussu.

William Shakespeare

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Also known as Shakespeare

• № 2Wrote King Lear, read by a teenage Lynn Glass.

Mary Stewart

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• № 2Wrote The Crystal Cave, read in Lynn Glass’s class.

Emily Dickinson

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Also known as Dickinson

• № 24Jessica Shelley recalls the bird Dickinson called “hope.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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• № 24Jungian psychologist quoted by Jessica Shelley.