Featured Speakers
Adam Gidwitz
Award-Winning and New York Times-Bestselling Author of In a Glass Grimmly and A Tale Dark and Grimm
Ahmed Rashid
Journalist and Author of Descent into Chaos and Pakistan on the Brink
Alina Tugend
Journalist and Author of Better by Mistake
Ana Homayoun
Author of That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week and The Myth of the Perfect Girl
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Barbara Bradley Hagerty
NPR Religion Correspondent & Author of Fingerprints of God
Bernie Glassman
Zen Master, spiritual leader, published author, founder of the Zen Peacemakers, accomplished academic, and successful...
Beth Hoffman
New York Times Bestselling Author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Bethany McLean
Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Co-Author of All the Devils are Here and the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys...
Blaine Harden
Journalist and Author of Escape from Camp 14
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Iconic Performer and Author of Man Up
Carne Ross
Author of The Leaderless Revolution and Founder of Independent Diplomat
Charlaine Harris
New York Times Bestselling-Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels, the Basis for the Hit HBO Series True Blood...
Craig M. Mullaney
Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Documentarians, experts on the justice system and speakers on Life After Death
Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35”...
Dante Chinni
Journalist and Author of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the 'Real' America
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Dave Isay
Founder of StoryCorps and Editor of Listening Is an Act of Love, Mom and All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps...
David Goldman
International Child Abduction Activist and Author of A Father's Love
David Nasaw
Award-Winning Biographer and New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Patriarch and Andrew Carnegie
David Owen
Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis and The Conundrum
Deborah Blum
Pultizer-Prize Winner and Author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age...
Deborah Harkness
Author of the New York Times Bestselling All Souls Trilogy
Delia Ephron
Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright, and Author of The Lion Is In
Dinaw Mengestu
Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven...
Doc Hendley
Founder and President of Wine to Water, CNN Hero, and Author of Wine to Water
Donovan Hohn
Journalist and Bestselling Author of Moby-Duck
Edward Humes
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Garbology
Eileen Rockefeller
Author, Social Entrepreneur, and Venture Philanthropist
Eleanor Brown
New York Times-bestselling Author of The Weird Sisters
Eli Pariser
Board President of MoveOn.org, Cofounder of Upworthy, and Author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding...
Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and Bestselling Author of Born...
Gerald Chertavian
CEO and Founder of Year Up and author of A Year Up: Helping Young Adults Move From Poverty to Professional Careers in...
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Hanna Rosin
Journalist and Author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
Jay Asher
New York Times Bestselling Author of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Future Of Us
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Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
Jenny Lawson
The Bloggess and New York Times Bestselling Author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened
John Coates
Neuroscientist, Former Trader, and Author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska; Co-Author of the New York Times...
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John Wood
Founder and Board Co-Chairman of Room to Read and Author of Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for...
Jon Gertner
Journalist and Author of The Idea Factory
Josh Hanagarne
Author of the memoir, The World's Strongest Librarian
Julie Salamon
Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Critic
Junot Díaz
Author of New York Times Bestsellers The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her; Winner of the...
Kathryn Stockett
Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help
Kathryn Stockett and Tate Taylor
Author of The Help and Writer/Director of the movie adaptation of The Help
Koren Zailckas
Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Laura Moriarty
Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Chaperone
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Lesley Hazleton
Award-winning Journalist, Historian, Blogger, and Author of The First Muslim
Manuel Gonzales
Author of The Miniature Wife and Executive Director of Austin Bat Cave
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times Bestselling-Author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land
Meg Wolitzer
Author of The Interestings and The Ten-Year Nap
Melody Moezzi
Iranian-American Muslim activist, attorney, and award-winning author
Moustafa Bayoumi
Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America
Nataly Kelly
Co-author of Found in Translation and VP of Market Development with Smartling, Inc.
Novella Carpenter
Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential Urban Farmer
Padma Venkatraman
Bestselling Author of Climbing the Stairs
Paul Greenberg
James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Phil Hansen
Artist and Author of Tattoo a Banana: And Other Ways to Turn Anything and Everything Into Art
Philip Delves Broughton
Journalist and Bestselling Author of Ahead of the Curve and The Art of the Sale
Ping Fu
Co-Founder of Geomagic, Author of Bend, Not Break, Chief Strategy Officer of 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD)
R. Dwayne Betts
Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice
Roger Lowenstein
Financial Journalist and Bestselling Author of The End of Wall Street
Ron Chernow
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Washington: A Life
Ron Currie, Jr.
Award-Winning Author of Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, Everything Matters! and God is Dead
Rosemary Wells
Bestselling Illustrator and Author of the Max and Ruby Series
Ruta Sepetys
International Bestselling Author of Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy
Scott Schuman
Creator of The Sartorialist, Fashion Photographer and Blogger
Stephen Dau
Author of The Book of Jonas
Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens...
Steve Lopez
Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Steven Galloway
Author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
Stewart O’Nan
Bestselling Novelist of Last Night at the Lobster House, The Odds and Emily, Alone
Taiye Selasi
Critically Acclaimed Author of Ghana Must Go
Tanner Colby
Author of Some of My Best Friends Are Black
Ted Williams
Author of A Golden Voice
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
Thomas Dyja
Author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
Thomas E. Ricks
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Washington Post Journalist and Bestselling Author of Fiasco and The Generals
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Founder and Executive Director of Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project and Author of A School for My Village
Victoria Sweet
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Prize-winning Historian, and Author of God's Hotel
Will Allen
CEO of Growing Power, MacArthur Genius Award Winner, and Author of The Good Food Revolution
William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.
Author of A Jane Austen Education
Zach Wahls
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms