PulitzerPrize–winning author Elizabeth Strout

ElizabethStrout is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge, alsonominated for the National Book Critic's Circle Award; the #1 New York Timesbestseller My Name Is Lucy Barton, which was longlisted for the ManBooker Prize; The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller; AbideWith Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick; and Amy and Isabelle,which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Los AngelesTimes Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Strouthas been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England.Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including O,The Oprah Magazine and The New Yorker.

BooksEditor Leigh Haber

Forthe past five years, Haber has been Books Editor for O, The Oprah Magazine,and a coordinator of Oprah's Book Club.She began her career in bookpublishing as a news aide for the Washington Post's Book World.Foryears she was a publicity director for various publishing houses, and thereafterheld senior editorial positions at Scribner, Hyperion, and Rodale.Overthe years, she's worked with numerous authors, among them Alice Walker, GloriaNaylor, Steve Martin, Al Gore, Terry Gross, Lou Reed and others.

Award-WinningComedian Rita Rudner

Rita Rudner is a multitalented star who began her career as aBroadway dancer in Follies and Mack & Mabel before branchingout to stand-up comedy. Over the past three decades she has appeared in avariety of television shows including The Tonight Show Starring JohnnyCarson, as well as in a number of award-winning comedy specials and movies.

A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one ofthe hottest tickets in town in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammaticone-liners. Over the course of a 14-year run and 2,000-plus shows, she has soldone-and-a-half-million tickets and become the longest-running solo comedy showin the history of Las Vegas. She has been named Las Vegas' Comedian of the Yearnine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballet's Woman of the YearAward.

Rudner's first solo HBO special, Rita Rudner's One Night Stand,was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC televisionshow that later appeared in the United States on A&E. In 2008 RitaRudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS's first-ever stand-up comedy special.In 2012 Rudner andher husband, Martin, wrote and performed The Rita Rudner Show for BBCradio in London. She also appeared in the Showtime comedy special RitaRudner and Three Potential Ex-Husbands.

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