Harper Lee - Author of To Kill A Mockingbird. Jimmy Carter - a largely unsung hero. Bill and Hilary Dan Fogelberg - to thank him for songs that shaped and resonated within my life. (May he rest in peace.) Oprah Winfrey - when she puts my novel on her Book Club! (Thinking big here!) Barack Obama George W. Bush - so I can tell him what a horror he has been for our country.