Becky Ann Baker has appeared on television and film in Girls, for which she received an Emmy nomination, Freaks and Geeks, Kings, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Big Little Lies, Brockmire, Younger, Hunters, Little Voice, New Amsterdam, Billions, A Simple Plan, Lorenzo’s Oil, Sabrina, Two Weeks Notice, Nights in Rodanthe, Starbright, The Half of It, Holler, Ted Lasso, Jackpot!, The Girls on the Bus, Elsbeth, and All Happy Families. She has performed on Broadway in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Streetcar Named Desire, Titanic, Assassins, All My Sons, and Good People. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in Suddenly Last Summer at the Roundabout Theatre Company; Comedy of Errors, Othello, and Two Gentlemen of Verona at the New York Shakespeare Festival; Durang, Durang at the Manhattan Theatre Club; Barbecue at the Public Theater; and virtually in The Homebound Project. Recent projects include the films Our Hero, Balthazar; Starbright; and Ella McCay. Baker is set to star in the upcoming film There She Goes.

Ann Patchett is the author of novels, most recently the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Lake, works of nonfiction, and children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books. Whistler was published today.

Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, and the bestselling story collection Table for Two. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.