Chip Fleischer, publisher, Steerforth Press, Hanover, New Hampshire

Ann Treistman, editor, Skyhorse Publishing, New York

Thomas Powers, writer, The Man Who Kept the Secrets and Intelligence Wars; contributor to The New York Review of Books and the New York Times, South Royalton, Vermont

Ernest Hebert, writer, The Old American and The Darby Novels, professor of creative writing, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire