Penguin Speakers Bureau
Penguin Speaker Bureau Speakers
Rosemary Altea
Spiritual medium, healer, and international bestselling author of The Eagle and the Rose
Ilene Beckerman
Author of visual-verbal bestselling memoirs including Love, Loss, and What I Wore, now a hit Off-Broadway play
Rod Beckstrom
Serial start-up entrepreneur and co-author of four books, including The Starfish and the Spider
David Benedictus
Author of Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the first authorized sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh
R. Dwayne Betts
Author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison and national spokesperson for Campaign for Youth Justice
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestselling People of the Book
Ronald Brownstein
Author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Frank Bruni
Former New York Times restaurant critic and bestselling author of Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater
Harriet Scott Chessman
Author of Someone Not Really Her Mother and Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Dudley Clendinen
Journalist and author of A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of the wildly popular blog Marginalrevolution.com
Jan Crawford
CBS News chief legal correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Supreme Conflict
June Cross
Documentary filmmaker and author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
Peter Elkind
Fortune magazine editor and co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo.
Sydney Finkelstein
Professor of Management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and bestselling author of Why Smart Executives Fail
Bruce Fleet
Leading financial advisor and author of The Solomon Secret: 7 Principles of Financial Success from King Solomon, History's Wealthiest Man
China Galland
A leading authority on the Black Madonna, and lecturer and teacher of religion, race, and reconciliation
Derek Gatehouse
Sales performance consultant and author of The Perfect Salesforce: The 6 Best Practices of the World's Best Sales Teams
Elizabeth Gilbert
One of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, 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
The Philosophy Guys
Authors of the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Award-winning NPR religion correspondent and author of Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
SuEllen Hamkins, MD
Co-author of The Mother-Daughter Project and specialist in women's mental health
Charlaine Harris
New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the Southern Vampire series
Marybeth Hicks
Family and parenting speaker and columnist, and author of Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World
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
Ross King
New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Rabbi Jennifer Krause
The "Rabbi Without Borders" and author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time
Dr. Denise Lamothe
Expert on emotional eating and author of The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping Compulsive Eating
Suzanne Braun Levine
Writer, editor, nationally recognized authority on women, and author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women In Second Adulthood
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
David L. Marcus
Education writer and author of Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges—And Find Themselves
Bethany McLean
Vanity Fair contributing editor and co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room
Dinaw Mengestu
Recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Gary W. Moore
Author of Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace program, author of the newly released Stones into Schools, and co-author and subject of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea
Mirta Ojito
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
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
Joe Piscatella
President of the Institute for Fitness and Health and author of Take a Load Off Your Heart
Thomas E. Ricks
Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post journalist and bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble
Ariel Sabar
Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past
Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Renowned expert on the grieving process as well as author of How Did I Become I Parents' Parent?
Patricia Schultz
Named by Forbes as one of the twenty-five most influential women in travel and author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
P.W. Singer
Senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Neuroanatomist and author of the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
Adrian Tinniswood
Author of The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
Clara Villarosa
Author of Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women and founder of the Hue-Man Bookstore
Susan Vreeland
Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia
Judith Warner
Journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Dr. Geoffrey Wawro
Renowned military historian and author of four military-focused books, including the forthcoming Quicksand: America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East
Greg Witt
Explorer, mountaineer, adventure guide, and author of Ultimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel
Benjamin Wittes
Brookings Institution Fellow and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror
