BURT BACHARACH, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and pianist, is a six-time Grammy Award winner, three-time Academy Award winner, and most recently recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin prize. PETER COYOTE came from nowhere and is working his way back. HOWARD NORMAN lives in Vermont and has visited Inverness each year since l969. His memoir, I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place, was published in 2013. His new novel, Next Life Might be Kinder, will be published in May 2014. LINDA PASTAN's thirteenth book, Traveling Light, was published in January 2011. She was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991-1995. In 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. BARBARA VOS educates herself by leaving hand and mind free to explore with paint. A child of 1950's Brooklyn, she now lives, paints, and practices Craniosacral Therapy bodywork in San Francisco.