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Bestsellers Club

Muse
$20,000+
Anonymous
​Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne
​Margaret and Will Hearst
Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
Craig Newmark

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Literary Angel
$10,000+
Scott James and Gerald Cain
Nion McEvoy

Benefactor
$5,000–$9,999
Jared Bhatti
​Anne Germanacos
​​Elizabeth Koch
Greg Sarris
Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund

Pillar
$2,500–$4,999
Anonymous
​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
​Lisa Church
​Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel
Marilee Engle and George Frost
​Melinda and Will Evers
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
​Teresa and Mike Olson
​Caroline Paul
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
Jill Bronfman
​Angie Chau
​Nancy Chirinos
Tom Collins, Taketomo Foundation
​Louise Carroll Conner and Arthur Conner
Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler
Karen Galatz and Jon Wellinghoff
​​Jordan Gill
Mady Jones
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
​Arline Klatte
​​​Deborah Krant and Tamim Ansary
​Marianne Lonsdale
​Kathryn Ma and Sanford Kingsley
​Susan Mattmann
Katey Mulfinger
​Don Novello
Anne and Michael Parish
​Lisa Poulson
Bora Reed
Gregg and Greta Schoenberg
Olivia Sears
​​Kathy Scott and Melanie Sherk
Susan Shors and Brian Connors
​Nancy Wakeman
Ted Weinstein

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Icon
$250–$499
Aaron Metals
​Anneliese Agren
Eddy Starr Ancinas
​​Kim Bancroft
Dylan and Dean Baquet
Julie and Greg Barton
Kimberly Bender
Jack Boulware
​Vickie Bowen
Diane Carr
Mary and Edwin Carter
​Evette Davis
Dale Djerassi
​Stephen Donnelly
Carolyn Ferris
​Laura Fraser
​Jane Ganahl
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
​Hertz Gelfand Charitable Foundation
​Earl James
Kristen Kadner
Mary Ladd and Oscar Villalon
Summer Dawn Laurie and David Linsmayer
JiaJing Liu
​Heather Mackey and Grant Faulkner
Deborah Marcus and Tom Cross
​Loretta Matty
James McElwee
​Brenda Moreno
​Lori Narlock
​​​​Marta Osterloh and Tony Curtiss
Isabel Duffy Pinner​ and Dickon Pinner
Elise Proulx
​Jason Roberts
Sarah Schectman
Marcia and Murray Schneider
​Gabrielle Selz
Carol Ruth Silver
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
​Leslie Berlin
Medea and Bruce Bern
Helena Brantley
​Darcy Brown
​Cathy Delneo
​Maura ​Devereux
​Deborah Dinerman and Eddie Maxwell
Sarah Elovich
​Joanne Fox
Harriet Garfinkle
​Barbara Grob
​Janine and Matt Kovac
Flicka McGurrin
​Betty Meissner
Kate Mitchell and David Cooper
​Debra Newman
​Lyssa Paul
D.A. Powell
Judith Rich
​Barbara Schmidt
Christopher Seifert
​Jennifer Siriganian
Neil Stollman
Susan Thieme
Pamela and John Walker
​Paul Yamazaki

Contributor
$100–$149
Claudette Allison
Louise Aronson
Debby and Marc Barach
​Doug Beeferman
JD Beltran
​Donna and David Bero
​William Bonham
​Robin Breuner
Katie Butler
​​Judy Cardiff
Quang Chau & Minh Doan
​Karen Clayton
​Chris Colin
Laurie Danier
​Morgan Davis
Ned Dodds
William Donahoe
Melissa Eizenberg and Adam Diamant
Jonathan Evans
Rebecca Foust
​Stephanie Galinson
Karen Garrison and David Edelson
George Higgins
​Vanessa Hua
Mike Kappus
Mary Kelly and Larry Miller
​Nancy Davis Kho
​Deborah Kirshman
​​Katie Korotzer
Jackie Krentzman
​Lila LaHood
​Jennifer Landig
Christina Lu and Matt Lee
​Nina Lesowitz and Martin Eggenberger
​Rachel Levin
Christine Mahimainathan
BJ and Chris Martin
Tina Martin
Daniel May
​Kathleen McClung
​Maudie McCormick
​Maryanne McGlothlin
Eliska Meyers
​Gerda Mueller
Mark Peterson
​Linda Schacht and John Gage
Barbara Schmidt
Herbert Schoenberg
Kathryn Seligman
Dana and Mike Serleth
Victoria Shelton
Keith Skinner
Amal and Rick Smith
​Karen Stern
Patrick Taffe
Cameron Tuttle
Ethan Watters
Anne Wilbur

Booster
$50–$99
Andrew Altschul
Lucy Bledsoe
Ravi Chandra
​Laura Cogan
B Pat Connolly
​Pamela Corson
Tomi Cunningham
​John Gourhan
​Susan Helmrich and Richard Levine
Harriet Heydemann
Ramesh Joshi
​Dillon McCoy
​Lindsey and Ken Meyersieck
​Julia Mitric and Adam Romo
​Ellen and David Newman
Patricia Ottesen
​Silvia Poloto
Maya Rath and Jonathan Ring
​Erin Schweng
Robert Stricker
Shirley Svihra
Joseph Talmadge
​Olga Zilberbourg

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