Cleo Wade

Cleo Wade is a New York Times–bestselling author and poet whose work explores hope, resilience and the power of love. Her books include Heart Talk, Where to Begin, What the Road Said, Remember Love: Words for Tender Times, and May You Love and Be Loved can be found wherever you buy books.  

Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Gordon-Reed won 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize  and the National Book Award, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family  (2008). She is the author of six books, and editor of two. She was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queen’s College) 2014-2015, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow at Queen’s in 2021.

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