Provocative story tellers converged for UNT's world-class Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in July. This year they gathered to tackle the divide between America's haves and have-nots and shed light on economic, racial, gender and cultural barriers in the U.S. The 11th annual conference featured top writers Anne Fadiman, Barbara Ehrenreich and Alex Tizon as guest speakers.

Ehrenreich, who related her experiences of three months of working minimum wage jobs in the bestselling memoir Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, was the conference's keynote speaker. She is an acclaimed journalist, author and activist known for championing the poor.

More than 25 nationally acclaimed writers explored the conference's theme.