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Dominique Raccah is the visionary Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, which she founded from her home in 1987. She has transformed Sourcebooks into a leading book publishing house renowned for its author-centric approach to innovation.

Publishing bestsellers in everything from teen thrillers, literary fiction, and romance to children’s books, college guides, journals, and mysteries, Sourcebooks is dedicated to changing lives through books.

Amor Towles

Having worked as an investment professional for over 20 years, Amor Towles now devotes himself full time to writing. His novels Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway, and his collection of shorter fiction Table for Two have all been New York Times bestsellers, have collectively sold more than eight million copies, and have been translated into more than forty languages. Towles wrote the introduction to Scribner’s 75th anniversary edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night , the Penguin Classics edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and the Vintage Crime edition of Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse.

Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is the author of nine novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder,Commonwealth, The Dutch House, and Tom Lake. She was the editor of Best American Short Stories, 2006, and has written four books of nonfiction and collaborated with illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser on three children’s books. The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and her books have been both New York Time sNotable Books and New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In  2011, she opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, with her business partner Karen Hayes.  She has since become a spokesperson for independent booksellers.