Dear Teacher / Abraham Lincoln -- Dear Monsieur Germain / Albert Camus -- Grade school. Almost like singing / Maya Angelou -- I was your first-grade teacher / Andrew Gross -- She made me feel as if the world was mine to conquer / Gene Simmons -- She loved the boys and girls of Haldeman / Chris Offutt -- An arena for me to shine / Melora Hardin -- I didn't know her first name / Cecil Murphey -- The time I needed / Daisy Martinez -- Love of reading / Sherri Shepherd -- Ode to teachers / Julie Peters -- Mrs. Lane's Olympics / Janet Evans -- Mis Germaine Earth Gregory Maguire -- Unforgettable / Joan Baker -- I met her only once / Rudy Gaskins -- What I remember / Kelli Russell -- John Dark / Carol Muske-Dukes -- Teachers / C.K. Williams -- Suzanne will be a writer / Suzanne Harper -- It only took me a moment or two to recognize him / Peter Selgin -- She would invite me up to her desk / Meg Wolitzer -- Middle School. He could understand / Katherine Marsh -- As tall as I would ever need to be / Robert Reich -- She had expectations / Elizabeth McCracken -- All the lights inside my head came on / Anne Perry -- An encouraging figure / Leslie Epstein -- I have no idea what they saw / Derek Alger -- He was so passionate about reading / CJ Lyons -- Renowned for her high standards / Thomas Kane -- He thought I was smart / Alan Dershowitz -- We knew what love was / Alex Shoumatoff -- High school. With love and high hopes / Mariana Klaveno -- Full of thinking and caring / George Saunders -- I will be forever in her debt / Dan Webster -- Never without his hat / Marya Hornbacher -- Shapes and furiously polished by my teachers / David Bellos -- The writer inside me / Tess Gerritsen -- He made class fun / Alison Haislip -- Changing the face of rock and roll / Stewart Lewis -- Thank God for English teachers / John Rosengren -- I am thankful for her efforts / Tommy James -- You know, I have no idea / Stuart Spencer -- Keep going / Gillian Anderson -- In a different way / Faye Kellerman -- Please use only sentences you've never heard before / John Whalen -- Forty years later / Dan Millman -- Respect / Beau Bridges -- A "Class Act" / Roy Firestone -- My journey with books / Eric Liebetrau -- "That" teacher / Wayne Federman -- Not in the right neighborhood / Helen Gurley Brown -- Ignited a fire in me / John Glenn -- Unlimited opportunities / Sherry Lansing -- And so she read / Bill Moyers -- She was right / Alethea Black -- Thanks, Mom / Dean Karnazes -- The final piece of the puzzle / Lee Greenwood -- A man of passion / Darryl Wimberley -- You'll never amount to a hill of beans / Keith Jackson -- Unquestioned authority / Robert Pinsky -- To be inspired, to inspire / Indira Cesarine -- The death-defying Mr. G / William Lashner -- All things pass / Anthony Bozza -- He made me feel valued / Ellie Krieger -- A world of possibility / Nicola Kraus -- He taught me more important life skills / Brian Crosby -- Don't know anyone like him / Joe Wilkins -- Ça va / Rachel Toor -- I was mesmerized / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- He saved my life / Hillary Susz -- College. You're going to be a writer / Jess Walter -- A grandson / Bruce Holbert -- Made a lasting impression / Myles Kennedy -- He had done his homework about our pasts / Stephen Dunn -- Walter taught liberation / Rosanne Cash -- I remember the kindness / Jim Piddock -- My friend and teacher / Ken Burns -- His dazzling language / Peter Coyote -- On a tangent / Jerry Spinelli -- The man was right on the money / Doug Holder -- No more gold stars / Kris Dinnison -- Home of the soul / Shann Ray -- Stepping on the edge of my doubting / Annie Finch -- A beloved teacher calls my writing "fecking crap" / Sharma Shields -- A mentor and a friend / Jim Belushi -- I had the good fortune to work with him / Gregory Spatz.