Authors I've either met, been at a signing for, or seen speak/read but didn't meet in person:
- Mary Downing Hahn (my first author meeting, back when I was 11 or 12)
- Neil Gaiman
- Joseph Bruchac
- Michael Cunningham
- Anne Rice
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Terry Pratchett
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Chris Baty
- Rita Mae Brown
- Billy Collins
- Frank McCourt
- John Irving
- Walter Mosley
- Susan Vreeland
- Lalita Tademy
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Brian Froud
- Ari Berk
- Holly Black
- Ha Jin
- Russell Edson
- Terrance Hayes
- Catherine M. Petrini aka authorauthor
- Charles Vess
- Charles de Lint
- Art Spiegelman
- Tree Swenson
- Michael Chabon
- John Green
- David Levithan