Creator

Anita Desai

Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W. E. B. Du Bois

American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor

Junot Diaz

Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review

Wilkie Collins

English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel