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1. Laura Furman

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2. Lorrie Moore

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3. Tobias Wolff

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4. John Updike

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5. Annie Proulx

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6. E. L. Doctorow

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7. Barbara Kingsolver

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8. Ann Beattie

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9. Amy Tan

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10. Walter Mosley

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11. Raymond Carver

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12. Louise Erdrich

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13. Ernest Hemingway

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14. Garrison Keillor

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15. John Kulka

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16. Sue Miller

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17. Jane Smiley

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18. John Edgar Wideman

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19. Flannery O'Connor

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20. Alice Adams

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21. Peter Haining

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22. Stephen King

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23. Margaret Atwood

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24. Robert Stone

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25. Bill Henderson

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26. Ann Patchett

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27. Michael Chabon

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28. Charles Baxter

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29. Alice Munro

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30. Richard Ford

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31. Joyce Carol Oates

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32. John Cheever

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33. T.C. Boyle

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34. Mark Helprin

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35. Ron Hansen

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36. Jennifer Egan

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37. Dave Eggers

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38. Anaïs Nin

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39. Robert Shapard

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40. Andre Dubus

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41. Laura Chester

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42. The New Yorker

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43. Salman Rushdie

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44. Tom Perrotta

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45. Daniel Halpern

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46. Irving Howe

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47. Anne Tyler

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48. Lex Williford

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49. David Foster Wallace

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50. Wallace Stegner

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