The "Craft-in-Progress I" Novel Workshop author list currently includes:

• Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time (Mark Haddon)
• Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
• First Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
• The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
• The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
• Burden of Proof (Scott Turow)
• The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
• Claudius The God (Robert Graves)
• Evensong (Gail Godwin)
• The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)
• Lucky You (Carl Hiassen)
• Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor)
• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
• The Painted Bird (Jerzy Kosinski)
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
• Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathaniel West)
• The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
• The Centaur (John Updike), and others.

(Note: most of these works are accessible online):

• Cowboys Are My Weakness (Pam Houston)
• The Foxed Mirror (Rikki Ducornet)
• An Incident (Anton Chekhov)
• Bluegill (Jayne Anne Phillips)
• A Comedy in Rubber O. Henry
• Journalism in Tennessee (Mark Twain)
• Fairy Tale (Robert Olen Butler)
• Listening Hours (Nan Leslie)
• 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (William Saroyan)
• Peace of Mind (T. C. Boyle)
• This Side of The Door (Stuart Connelly)
• The Proper Levels of Vacuum (Michael Martone)
• Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon (Gabriel Márquez)
• Air Show (Pamela Painter)
• Fat (Raymond Carver)
• Louise (Somerset Maughm)
• The Moving Finger (Edith Wharton)
• Toon Red Nav Ardnaxela (Lisa Thompson)
• The Angry Man (Peter Johnson)
• Tumblehome (Paul West)
• Ventilating Shiva (Mathew Davies)
• Bed of Nails (Luísa Costa Gomes)
• Blue Moon (Martha Cerda)
• A Country Doctor (Franz Kafka)

Additional writers studied include Sylvia Plath, Annie Proulx, Robert Penn Warren, and Flannery O'Connor.