Penguin Speaker Bureau Speakers

Rosemary Altea

Spiritual medium, healer, and international bestselling author of THE EAGLE AND THE ROSE

Erika Andersen

Founder of Proteus International and author of GROWING GREAT EMPLOYEES

Rick Barrera

Nationally acclaimed marketing consultant to the Fortune 500


Rod Beckstrom

Serial start-up entrepreneur and co-author of four books, including THE STARFISH AND THE SPIDER

Jim Bell

Pioneering and award-winning astronomer

Michael J. Breus, PhD

WebMD's official expert on sleep


Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning MARCH and the international bestselling YEAR OF WONDERS

Ronald Brownstein

Author of THE SECOND CIVIL WAR: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant

Founder and Pastor of The Empowerment Temple


Sarah Chayes

NPR reporter

Harriet Scott Chessman

Author of SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER and LYDIA CASSATT READING THE MORNING PAPER

Jared Cohen

Author of CHILDREN OF JIHAD: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East


Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker journalist

Tyler Cowen

Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of the wildly popular blog marginalrevolution.com

Ana Marie Cox

Original voice of the political blog Wonkette and Time magazine columnist


Wendy Reid Crisp

Editor-in-chief of GRAND, the magazine for grandparents

June Cross

Documentary filmmaker and author of SECRET DAUGHTER: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

Deborah Davis

Writer, veteran film executive, and art expert


John Dean

Legal expert and author of the New York Times bestseller CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE

Eric Jerome Dickey

New York Times bestselling novelist

Paul Dobransky, MD

Dating expert, author, and psychiatrist


Junot Díaz

WINNER OF THE 2008 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

Kim Edwards

Author of the New York Times bestselling novel THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER

Peter Elkind

Fortune Magazine editor and co-author of the national bestseller THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM


Steve Ettlinger

Writer, editor, book producer, and author of TWINKIE, DECONSTRUCTED

Nuruddin Farah

The first African to win the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Piero Ferrucci

Renowned psychotherapist


Sydney Finkelstein

Professor of Management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and bestselling author of WHY SMART EXECUTIVES FAIL

Ronald Florence

Historian and novelist

Deborah Ford

Founder and CEO of Grits, Inc.


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

Judy Gelman

Co-author of THE BOOK CLUB COOKBOOK and THE KIDS' BOOK CLUB BOOK


Elizabeth Gilbert

One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, 2008, and author of the New York Times bestseller EAT, PRAY, LOVE

Richard Glaubman

Award-winning co-author of LIFE IS SO GOOD and renowned humanitarian

James S. Gordon, MD

Founder and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine


Jan Crawford Greenburg

ABC News correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of SUPREME CONFLICT

The Philosophy Guys

Authors of the New York Times bestseller PLATO AND A PLATYPUS WALK INTO A BAR...

SuEllen Hamkins, MD

Co-author of THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER PROJECT and specialist in women's mental health


Alexandra Harney

Author of THE CHINA PRICE: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage

Hill Harper

Bestselling author of LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROTHER and CSI-NY star

Margaret Heffernan

Five-time CEO and Fast Company columnist


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

Chet Holmes

Super Strategist of the Fortune 500

Dave Isay

StoryCorps founder and editor of LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project


Jason Jennings

One of the three most in-demand business speakers as named by USA Today

Alan Kelly

CEO, founder of The Playmaker’s Standard™, and author of THE ELEMENTS OF INFLUENCE

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

Bestselling author of DANCING WITH ROSE: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

Ross King

New York Times bestselling author of BRUNELLESCHI’S DOME and MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING

Bart Kosko, Ph.D., J.D.

Bestselling author of NOISE and FUZZY THINKING


Jennifer Krause

The "rabbi without borders" and author of THE ANSWER: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time

Mark Krikorian

Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies

Vicki Levy Krupp

Co-author of THE BOOK CLUB COOKBOOK and THE KIDS' BOOK CLUB BOOK


Ray Kurzweil

Award-winning technology expert and New York Times bestselling author

Steve Lance

Emmy Award–winning advertising guru

John Lescroart

New York Times bestselling novelist


Suzanne Braun Levine

Writer, editor, and 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

Jones Loflin

Co-author of JUGGLING ELEPHANTS and “Trainer of Trainers” for WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?


Jacki Lyden

NPR Senior Correspondent

Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD

Author of THE HOW OF HAPPINESS and happiness researcher

Tim Madigan

Author of I'M PROUD OF YOU: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers


David Magee

Award-winning columnist, top business leader, and author of HOW TOYOTA BECAME #1

Cammie McGovern

Autism expert and award-winning author

Bethany McLean

Fortune Magazine 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

Greg Mortenson

Founder of the Pennies for Peace program and co-author and subject of the #1 New York Times bestseller THREE CUPS OF TEA

Bich Minh Nguyen

Author of STEALING BUDDHA'S DINNER and writing professor at Purdue University


Mirta Ojito

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of FINDING MAÑANA: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus

Marilyn Paul, Ph.D.

Organization and management consultant

Richard Peck

Newbery Award–winning children’s author


John Perkins

Author of the New York Times bestseller CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN and THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

Daniel Pinchbeck

Pop psychedelic author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Mary Pipher

American Clinical Psychologist and author of the revolutionary bestseller REVIVING OPHELIA


Michael Pollan

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA and IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

Nathaniel Rich

Senior editor of The Paris Review and author of THE MAYOR'S TONGUE

Frances Richey

Poet and author of THE WARRIOR: A Mother's Story of a Son at War


Thomas E. Ricks

Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post journalist and bestselling author of FIASCO

David Roche

Motivational speaker, humorist, and author of THE CHURCH OF 80% SINCERITY

Julie Salamon

Award-winning journalist, author, and critic


Renée Schultz

Co-author of THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER PROJECT and Marriage & Family Therapist

Dan Solin

Registered Investment Advisor

Dana Thomas

Author of DELUXE: How Luxury Lost Its Luster


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

Nicholas Wade

Science Reporter for the New York Times


Nicholas Wapshott

New York Sun columnist and author of RONALD REAGAN AND MARGARET THATCHER: A Political Marriage

Marie C. Wilson

Founder and president of The White House Project

Benjamin Wittes

Brookings Institution Fellow and author of LAW AND THE LONG WAR: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror