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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
​Elizabeth Koch
Greg Sarris
Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund

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

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Patron
$1,000–$2,499
Betsy S. Aubrey and Steve Lichtenburg
Valerie Barth and Peter Wiley
Natalie Baszile and Warrington S. Parker III
​Jared Bhatti
Lisa Church
​Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel
Marilee Engle and George Frost
Mark Finnemore
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
Frances Stroh
​Donna Williamson
Mordechai Winter
Barbara and Charlie Winton
​James Wright

Visionary
$500–$999
Joachim and Nancy Bechtle
Judith Bernhard and Byron Spooner
​Angie Chau
​Nancy Chirinos
Tom Collins, Taketomo Foundation
Melinda and Will Evers
Karen Galatz and Jon Wellinghoff
​​Jordan Gill
Diana Hardy
Mady Jones
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
​Arline Klatte
​Janine and Matt Kovac
​Deborah Krant and Tamim Ansary
​Marianne Lonsdale
​Kathryn Ma and Sanford Kingsley
​Susan Mattmann
​Don Novello
Anne and Michael Parish
​Lisa Poulson
Bora Reed
Gregg and Greta Schoenberg
Olivia Sears
Gabrielle Selz
​Kathy Scott and Melanie Sherk
Susan Shors and Brian Connors
Ted Weinstein

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$250–$499
Aaron Metals
​Anneliese Agren
Eddy Starr Ancinas
Julie and Greg Barton
Jack Boulware
​Vickie Bowen
Diane Carr
Bridget Collins
Louise Carroll Conner and Arthur Conner
​Evette Davis
Dale Djerassi
Carolyn Ferris
​Laura Fraser
Gravity Goldberg
​Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
Charlie Haas and B.K. Moran
Stephanie Harrell and Adam Johnson
Lynda Heideman
Sharon and Alex Henthorn-Iwane
​Earl James
Kristen Kadner
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
​Lori Narlock
​​Teresa and Mike Olson
​Marta Osterloh and Tony Curtiss
Isabel Duffy Pinner​ and Dickon Pinner
Elise Proulx
​Jason Roberts
Sarah Schectman
Marcia and Murray Schneider
Cass Calder Smith
​Pamela Squyres
​​​Pam Student
​Ellen Sussman and Neal Rothman
​Ianthe Brautigan Swensen
Kim Teevan
​Catherine Thorpe
​Alia Volz and Kevin Hunsanger
Malena Watrous

Luminary
$150–$249
Emily Alter
Michele Anderson
Medea and Bruce Bern
Helena Brantley
​Darcy Brown
​Dane Copeland
​Cathy Delneo
​Deborah Dinerman and Eddie Maxwell
Sarah Elovich
​Joanne Fox
Jane Ganahl
Harriet Garfinkle
​Barbara Grob
​Katie Korotzer
Flicka McGurrin
​Betty Meissner
Kate Mitchell and David Cooper
​Beatrice Moe
​Lyssa Paul
D.A. Powell
Judith Rich
​Barbara Schmidt
Christopher Seifert
​Jennifer Siriganian
Neil Stollman
Barbara Alexander Szerlip
Pamela and John Walker
​Paul Yamazaki

Contributor
$75–$149
Claudette Allison
Louise Aronson
Kim Bancroft
Debby and Marc Barach
​Doug Beeferman
​Donna and David Bero
​William Bonham
Katie Butler
​​Judy Cardiff
Quang Chau & Minh Doan
​Karen Clayton
Laurie Danier
Ned Dodds
William Donahoe
​Debi Durst
Melissa Eizenberg and Adam Diamant
Jonathan Evans
​Stephanie Galinson
Karen Garrison and David Edelson
Mary Kelly and Larry Miller
​Deborah Kirshman
Jackie Krentzman
​Jennifer Landig
Christina Lu and Matt Lee
Christine Mahimainathan
BJ and Chris Martin
Tina Martin
​Maudie McCormick
​Maryanne McGlothlin
Eliska Meyers
​Gerda Mueller
Mark Peterson
​Linda Schacht and John Gage
Barbara Schmidt
Herbert Schoenberg
Dana and Mike Serleth
Keith Skinner
Amal and Rick Smith
​Karen Stern
Patrick Taffe

Booster
$50–$74
Lucy Bledsoe
Ravi Chandra
Tomi Cunningham
​John Gourhan
​Susan Helmrich and Richard Levine
Harriet Heydemann
Nancy Davis Kho
Rachel Levin
Ellen Mann
​Dillon McCoy
​Lindsey and Ken Meyersieck
​Julia Mitric and Adam Romo
Patricia Ottesen
​Silvia Poloto
Maya Rath and Jonathan Ring
​Erin Schweng
Shirley Svihra
Joseph Talmadge
​Olga Zilberbourg

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