author, author!

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So, the Library of Congress has a book festival this weekend! Which authors should I go see/stand in line to get a book signed by? The only one I'm planning on at this point is Shannon Hale (maybe Paula Deen). Everybody weigh in and tell me who I've been missing out on.



* John Grisham
* Michael Connelly
* Sharon Creech
* Kirstin Downey
* Sue Monk Kidd
* James Patterson
* Ann Kidd Taylor
* Mary Brigid Barrett
* Judy Blume
* Kate DiCamillo
* George Pelecanos
* Jon Scieszka
* David Shannon
* Douglas Brinkley
* Margaret Coel
* John Irving
* Liz Kessler
* Charles Santore
* Nicholas Sparks
* David A. Taylor
* Holly Black
* Lee Child
* Junot Díaz
* Tony DiTerlizzi
* Katherine Neville
* Jodi Picoult
* Mo Willems
* Paula Deen
* Craig Hatkoff
* Steven Kellogg
* Jeff Kinney
* Lisa Scottoline
* Daniel Silva
* David Baldacci
* Craig Johnson
* Rick Riordan
* Jeannette Walls
* Colson Whitehead
* Patrick Carman
* Shannon Hale
* Mark Kurlansky
* Jerry Pinkney
* Marilynne Robinson
* James L. Swanson
* Sabiha Al Khemir
* Nikki Grimes
* Kadir Nelson
* Tim O'Brien
* Sharon Robinson
* S.J. Rozan
* Patricia Sullivan
* Julia Alvarez
* Ken Burns
* Dayton Duncan
* Lois Lowry
* Charles Santore
* David Wroblewski
* Mary Jane Clark
* Carmen Agra Deedy
* Jon Meacham
* Rickey Minor
* Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah
* Annette Gordon-Reed
* Gwen Ifill
* Megan McDonald
* Walter Mosley
* Azar Nafisi
* Simon Schama
* Jacqueline Woodson
* Dan Balz
* Haynes Johnson

Poets: Julia Glass, Valerie Martinez, Edward Hirsch, Kay Ryan, Jane Hirshfield, Ana Menendez, Patricia Smith, W. Ralph Eubanks