Margaret Atwood (External Editor)
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The
Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam
trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in
2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one
bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published
Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade; in 2022
Burning Questions, a selection of essays, was a Sunday Times
bestseller; and in 2023, Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short
stories, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Atwood is a
member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and has won
numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for
Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace
Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement
Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a
cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She
lives in Toronto, Canada.
Douglas Preston (External Editor)
Douglas Preston has published 39 books of fiction and nonfiction,
of which 32 have been New York Times bestsellers, some reaching the
#1 position. Two of his novels, co-written with Lincoln Child, were
chosen in a National Public Radio poll of readers as being among
the 100 greatest thrillers ever written. His recent nonfiction
book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, was named a notable book of
the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and National
Geographic magazine. In addition to books, Preston writes about
archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker Magazine. He worked
as an editor for the American Museum of Natural History in New York
and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is the
recipient of numerous writing awards in the U.S. and Europe, and he
served as president of the Authors Guild from 2019 to 2023.
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