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  • Michelle Zink
    Michelle Zink lives in New York with her four children. Her first novel, Prophecy of the Sisters, was chosen as one of Booklist's Top Ten Novels for Youth of 2009 and as one of the Chicago Public ...

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    Lies I Told
  • Nell Zink
    Nell Zink
    Nell Zink was born in 1964 in southern California and grew up in rural Virginia. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary, where she majored in philosophy. Rather late in ...

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    The Wallcreeper

  • Sofka Zinovieff
    Sofka Zinovieff is the author of four previous books, including The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me, and has worked as a freelance journalist and reviewer, her work appearing in the ...

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    Putney
  • Ziwe
    Ziwe is a comedian, writer, and actor. She was the executive producer and star of the eponymous late-night variety show Ziwe on Showtime. She lives in New York City.

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    Black Friend
  • Silas Dent Zobal
    Silas Dent Zobal
    Silas Dent Zobal is the author of a collection of stories, The Inconvenience of the Wings — which was named by Kirkus one of the "Best Indie Books of 2015. He has published short fiction in the ...

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    The People of the Broken Neck

  • Ibi Zoboi
    Ibi Zoboi
    Ibi Zoboi holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Pride and My Life as...

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    Punching the Air

  • Tom Zoellner
    Tom Zoellner
    Tom Zoellner is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire, and works as a professor at Chapman University and Dartmouth ...

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    The Heartless Stone

  • Katherine Zoepf
    Katherine Zoepf lived in Syria and Lebanon from 2004 to 2007 while working as a stringer for The New York Times; she also worked in the Times's Baghdad bureau in 2008. Since 2010, she has ...

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    Excellent Daughters

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