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Bestsellers Club 2017–2018

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
Ellen Ullman

Benefactor
$5,000–$9,999
Camilla Smith

Pillar
$2,500–$4,999
Daryl Austern and Carl Bass
Betsy S. Aubrey and Steve Lichtenburg
Natalie Baszile and Warrington S. Parker III
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
Nancy Calef and Jody Weiner
Barbara and Andy Fremder
Hellman Family Fund
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau Fund
Elizabeth Koch
Suzanne Lafetra
Sheila Sosnow and Richard Nagler
Barbara and Charlie Winton

Patron
$1,000–$2,499
BergDavis Public Affairs
Tom Collins, Taketomo Foundation
Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel
Phyllis Friedman
Karen Galatz and Jon Wellinghoff
Terry Gamble and Peter Boyer
Sara Newmann and Doug Souvern
Patriarca Wang Family Fund of Horizons Foundation
Greg Sarris
Gregg Schoenberg
Anne Schukat
Julie Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Frances Stroh
Amy Tan and Louis De Mattei
Donna Williamson

Visionary
$500–$999
J.R. Bechtle
Leslie Berlin
Donna and David Bero
Nancy Chirinos
Karyn DiGiorgio and Steven Sattler
Darothy Durkac
Will Evers
Jessica & Stephen Galloway
Michelle Jeffers
Mady Jones
Amy Kaminer
Peggy and Lew Katcher
Elaine Katzenberger
Deborah Krant and Tamim Ansary
The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Anne and Michael Parish
Elise Proulx
Kimberly Sambrook
Linda Schacht and John Gage
Ellen Sussman and Neal Rothman
Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers
Vesuvio Café
Alia Volz and Kevin Hunsanger
James Wright
Cora Yang

Icon
$250–$499
​Anneliese Agren
Julie Barton
Kimberly Bender
Medea and Bruce Bern
Jack Boulware
Michele Bronson
Bridget Collins
Alex Dolan
Jordan Gill
Gravity Goldberg
Lynda Heideman
Lewis Hurwitz
Jeffrey Kanter
Janine and Matt Kovac
Matt Lee
Davyd Morris
Network for Good
Natacha Ruck
Marcia Schneider
Kathy Scott
Melanie Sherk
Susan Shors and Brian Connors
Mary Taugher
Cameron Tuttle
Malena Watrous
Michelle Wilk

Luminary
$150–$249
Louise Aronson
Valerie Barth and Peter Wiley
Judith Bernhard and Byron Spooner
Cassandra  Bessey
Brian Cullen
Sharon Donovan
Jane Ganahl
Jacqueline Garrett
Karin Hastik
Pauline Jue
Susan Helmrich and Richard Levine
Deborah Kirshman
Phuong Le
Kathryn Ma and Sanford Kingsley
James McElwee
Bradley Paterson
Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen
Keith Raffel
Kevin Smokler
Martha Tolles

Contributor
$75–$149
Idris Anderson
Kim Bancroft
Dre Bella
Lucy Bernholz
William Bonham
Vickie Bowen
Catherine Bradford
Anil Bridgpal
John Caperton
Frank Caufield
Diana Cohn
William Dawes
Christina Einstein
Jonathan Evans
Peggy Forbes
Deborah French Frisher
Karen Garrison
Dayna Goldfine
Peg Grady
Tracy Guzman
Richard Glaser
Robert Glavin
Minette and Isac Gutfreund
James Helman
Earl James
Warren Kruger
Mary Kelly and Larry Miller
Lila LaHood
Christina Lu
Judy Miner
Clarice Moody
Nagendra Nadaraja
David  Pritikin
Robert Quattlebaum
Jason Roberts
 Barbara Schmidt
Sheila and Toby  Schwartzburg
Ira Silverberg
Amal and Rick Smith
Neil Stollman
Tricia Stone
Patrick Taffe
Mark Tauber
Marilyn and Murray Waldman
Kenneth Wigginton

Booster
$50–$74
Claudette Allison
Anita Amirrezvani
Joni Anderson
Alan Beber
Matt Bissinger
Kellen Brenner
Trela Caler
Lucy Day and Richard Levine
Suzy Drell
Michelle Fait
Brett Jones
Janet Loduca
Marianne Lonsdale
Maryanne McGlothlin
Lindsey Meyersieck
Davia Lee Nelson
Janice Nieder
Marta Osterloh and Tony Curtiss
Maya Rath and Jonathan Ring
Patricia Silver
Jen Siraganian
Keith Skinner
Kaitlin Solimine
Donald Stevens
Andrew Tonkovich
Monika Trobits
Angela Wagner
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