Penguin Speakers Bureau
Topics
Culture & Society
Moustafa Bayoumi
Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
R. Dwayne Betts
Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Frank Bruni
Former New York Times Restaurant Critic and Bestselling Author of Born Round: A Story of Family, Food, and a Ferocious Appetite
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Tyler Cowen, PhD
Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Co-author of the Marginalrevolution.com Blog
June Cross
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
Paul Dobransky, M.D.
Psychiatrist, Dating Expert, and Author of The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the international bestseller, Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo
Elizabeth Gilbert
One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008 and Author of The New York Times Bestsellers Committed and Eat, Pray, Love
John Granger
Harry Potter and Twilight expert, and author of Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures
Ed Husain
Author of The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left
Dave Isay
StoryCorps founder and editor of Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Joshua Kendall
Award-winning Journalist and Author of The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Lauren Kessler
Author of My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
Ross King
New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin
Neuroscientist and Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communications at McGill University
David Lida
Journalist and author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century
Steve Lopez
Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Three Cups of Tea
David Owen
Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
John Perkins
Author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire
Mary Pipher
American Clinical Psychologist and author of the revolutionary bestseller Reviving Ophelia
Ariel Sabar
Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past
Rebecca Solnit
Award-winning Journalist and Author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Adrian Tinniswood
Author of The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
Susan Vreeland
Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture