 
                        
                    Frances Mayes has spent thirty years splitting her time between her native United States and adopted home in Tuscany and writing bestselling books, including...
 
                        
                    Simon Rich is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He has written for “Saturday Night Live,” Pixar, and “The Simpsons” and is the...
 
                        
                    John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time, among them: “The World According to Garp,” “A Widow for One...