Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.

Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist. Her recent books are Lila: A Novel and What Are We Doing Here?: Essays. She lives in Iowa City and is professor emerita at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.