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Bestsellers Club

Literary Angel
$10,000+
Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne
Margaret and Will Hearst
Scott James and Gerald Cain
Nion McEvoy
Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
Craig Newmark

Benefactor
$5,000–$9,999
Letetia and James Callinan
​Elizabeth Koch
Greg Sarris
Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund

Pillar
$2,500–$4,999
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
Nancy Calef and Jody Weiner
Karyn DiGiorgio and Steven Sattler
Barbara and Andy Fremder
Hellman Family Fund
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
Lise Quintana and Stephen Beitzel
​Swinerton Family Fund
​Jill Tonkin-Finegold

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Patron
$1,000–$2,499
Betsy S. Aubrey and Steve Lichtenburg
​Daryl Austern and Carl Bass
Natalie Baszile and Warrington S. Parker III
​Jared Bhatti
Lisa Church
​Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel
Mark Finnemore
Marilee Engle and George Frost
Terry Gamble and Peter Boyer
​Deidre Greene, Roaring Forties Press
​Michelle Jeffers
​Tina and John Keker
​The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Susan Moldaw
​Eddie Muller
Sara Newmann and Doug Sovern
Anne Schukat
Julia Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Frances Stroh
​Donna Williamson
Mordechai Winter
Barbara and Charlie Winton
​James Wright

Visionary
$500–$999
Valerie Barth and Peter Wiley
Joachim Bechtle
Diane Carr
​Angie Chau
​Nancy Chirinos
Tom Collins, Taketomo Foundation
Will Evers
​​Jordan Gill
Diana Hardy
Mady Jones
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
Peggy and Lew Katcher
​Arline Klatte
​Janine and Matt Kovac
​Deborah Krant and Tamim Ansary
​Marianne Lonsdale
​Kathryn Ma and Sanford Kingsley
​Susan Mattmann
​Don Novello
​Teresa and Mike Olson
Anne and Michael Parish
​Lisa Poulson
Gregg and Greta Schoenberg
Gabrielle Selz
Susan Shors and Brian Connors
Ellen Sussman and Neal Rothman

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$250–$499
Aaron Metals
​Anneliese Agren
Eddy Starr Ancinas
Julie and Greg Barton
Kimberly Bender
Judith Bernhard and Byron Spooner
Jack Boulware
​Vickie Bowen
Bridget Collins
Louise Carroll Conner and Arthur Conner
​Evette Davis
Dale Djerassi
Carolyn Ferris
​Laura Fraser
Gravity Goldberg
​Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
Stephanie Harrell and Adam Johnson
Lynda Heideman
Sharon and Alex Henthorn-Iwane
​Earl James
Kristen Kadner
Suzanne Klein 
Mary Ladd and Oscar Villalon
Lila LaHood
Summer Dawn Laurie and David Linsmayer
Nina Lesowitz and Martin Eggenberger
JiaJing Liu
​Heather Mackey and Grant Faulkner
Deborah Marcus and Tom Cross
​Loretta Matty
James McElwee
​Judy Miner
Davyd Morris
​Lori Narlock
​Marta Osterloh and Tony Curtiss
Isabel Duffy Pinner​
Elise Proulx
​Bora Reed
Marcia and Murray Schneider
Kathy Scott and Melanie Sherk
​Olivia Sears
Cass Calder Smith
Sports Basement
​Pamela Squyres
​​​Pam Student
​Ianthe Brautigan Swensen
Mary Taugher
Kim Teevan
​Catherine Thorpe
​Alia Volz and Kevin Hunsanger
Malena Watrous
​Ted Weinstein
Leonid Zilberburg

Luminary
$150–$249
Michele Anderson
​Carol Berluti
Medea and Bruce Bern
Nora Blay
Jessica Broitman
Vickie Bowen and Bill Haish
Helena Brantley
​Darcy Brown
​Dane Copeland
​Cathy Delneo
​Debra Dout
​Kevin Dublin
Sarah Elovich
​​Maureen Fan
​Joanne Fox
Jane Ganahl
Harriet Garfinkle
Andrea and Rick Goldman
​Barbara Grob
Haas Moran Family Fund 
Lewis Hurwitz
Deborah Kirshman
Emma Kollak
Lynn Eve Komaromi
​Katie Korotzer
Flicka McGurrin
​Betty Meissner
​Beatrice Moe
​Lyssa Paul
Keith Raffel
Judith Rich
​Barbara Schmidt
Christopher Seifert
Jane Swinerton
Barbara Alexander Szerlip
Marilyn and Murray Waldman
Pamela and John Walker
Marilyn and Irving Yalom
​Paul Yamazaki

Contributor
$75–$149
Claudette Allison
Kim Bancroft
Debby and Marc Barach
​Doug Beeferman
​Donna and David Bero
Lucy Bledsoe
​William Bonham
MJ Brodie
Katie Butler
​​Judy Cardiff
Louise Carroll
Zoe Carter
Quang Chau & Minh Doan
Jane Ciabattari
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
​Karen Clayton
Diana Cohn
Melissa Congdon
Laurie Danier
​Debi Durst
Melissa Eizenberg and Adam Diamant
Jonathan Evans
Peggy Forbes
Cecile Forman
​Zoe Francis
​Stephanie Galinson
Jacqueline Garrett
Karen Garrison and David Edelson
Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
Susan Helmrich and Richard Levine
Pauline Jue
​Lynne Kaminer and Daniel Ray
​Micah Kaplan
Mary Kelly and Larry Miller
Jackie Krentzman
Devi Laskar
Janet Loduca
​Judith Lubman
Christina Lu and Matt Lee
Christine Mahimainathan
BJ and Chris Martin
​Maudie McCormick
​Maryanne McGlothlin
Eliska Meyers
Kate Mitchell and David Cooper
​Gerda Mueller
Evelyn Nussenbaum
Mark Peterson
​Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen
Robert Quattlebaum
​Alice Ranahan
Jason Roberts
Joan Ryan
Deborah and Paul Sagues
​Linda Schacht and John Gage
Barbara Schmidt
Herbert Schoenberg
​Kathy Scott
Dana and Mike Serleth
Gae Shulman
Jen Siraganian
Keith Skinner
Amal and Rick Smith
​Karen Stern
Neil Stollman
Patrick Taffe
Joseph Talmadge
Cameron Tuttle
Robert Weston

Booster
$50–$74
Lucy Bledsoe
Piyali Bhattacharya
Robin Brasso
Ravi Chandra
Harriet Chessman
Pamela Corson
​Lucille Lang Day
​Deborah Dinerman and Eddie Maxwell
​Suzy Drell
Robin Ekiss
Michael French
​John Gourhan
Katie Hafner
Susan Harloe
​Baruch Porras Hernandez
Harriet Heydemann
​Brett Hall Jones
Nancy Davis Kho
​Jennifer Landig
Lucille Lang
Rachel Levin
​Robert Mandel
Ellen Mann
Tina Martin
Justin McCarthy
​Dillon McCoy
​Barbara McMahan
​David Mealy
​Lindsey and Ken Meyersieck
​Julia Mitric
Patricia Ottesen
Miriam Pawel
​Silvia Poloto
​Karen Racanelli
Dean Rader
​Virginia Rogers
Suzanne Russo
​Erin Schweng
Cindy Snow
Margaret Stevenson
Robert Stricker
​Ann Wu
​Olga Zilberbourg

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