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Bestselling Novelists

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...

Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book

Charlaine Harris

New York Times Bestselling-Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels, the Basis for the Hit HBO Series True Blood...

Kathryn Stockett

Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help

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...

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Black History Month

R. Dwayne Betts

Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice

Tanner Colby

Author of Some of My Best Friends Are Black

Danielle Evans

Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35”...

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

June Cross

Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

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Business & Finance

Roger Lowenstein

Financial Journalist and Bestselling Author of The End of Wall Street

Jon Gertner

Journalist and Author of The Idea Factory

David Nasaw

Award-Winning Biographer and New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Patriarch and Andrew Carnegie

John Coates

Neuroscientist, Former Trader, and Author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Bethany McLean

Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Co-Author of All the Devils are Here and the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys...

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Coming of Age

Jay Asher

New York Times Bestselling Author of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Future Of Us

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

Jean Kwok

Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation

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...

Koren Zailckas

Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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Culture & Society

Zach Wahls

LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms

Julie Salamon

Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Critic

Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America

Frank Bruni

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and Bestselling Author of Born...

Dave Isay

Founder of StoryCorps and Editor of Listening Is an Act of Love, Mom and All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps...

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Diversity

Tanner Colby

Author of Some of My Best Friends Are Black

Josh Sundquist

Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall

Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America

Carlos Andrés Gómez

Iconic Performer and Author of Man Up

Zach Wahls

LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms

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Education

Gerald Chertavian

CEO and Founder of Year Up and author of A Year Up: Helping Young Adults Move From Poverty to Professional Careers in...

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

Founder and Executive Director of Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project and Author of A School for My Village

William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.

Author of A Jane Austen Education

Ana Homayoun

Author of That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week and The Myth of the Perfect Girl

Craig M. Mullaney

Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

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First Year Experience

Zach Wahls

LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms

Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book

Blaine Harden

Journalist and Author of Escape from Camp 14

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...

Jean Kwok

Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation

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Food

Will Allen

CEO of Growing Power, MacArthur Genius Award Winner, and Author of The Good Food Revolution

Frank Bruni

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and Bestselling Author of Born...

Paul Greenberg

James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Mark Kurlansky

New York Times Bestselling-Author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land

Novella Carpenter

Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential Urban Farmer

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Health & Medicine

Victoria Sweet

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Prize-winning Historian, and Author of God's Hotel

Michael Willrich

Award-Winning Historian and Author of Pox: An American History

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Neuroanatomist and Author of the New York Times Bestseller My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal...

Novella Carpenter

Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential Urban Farmer

Julie Salamon

Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Critic

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History

David Nasaw

Award-Winning Biographer and New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Patriarch and Andrew Carnegie

Laurence Bergreen

Author of Columbus: The Four Voyages

Deborah Blum

Pultizer-Prize Winner and Author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age...

Ron Chernow

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Washington: A Life

Ross King

New York Times Bestselling Author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

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Humor

Julie Klam

New York Times-bestselling Author of Friendkeeping and You Had Me at Woof

Jen Lancaster

New York Times Bestselling-Memoirist and Author of If You Were Here: A Novel

Shalom Auslander

Author of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir and Hope: A Tragedy

Jenny Lawson

The Bloggess and New York Times Bestselling Author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Susan McCorkindale

Author of 500 Acres and No Place to Hide and Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl

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Innovation & Technology

Eli Pariser

Board President of MoveOn.org, Cofounder of Upworthy, and Author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding...

Ken Denmead

Publisher and Editor of GeekDad and New York Times Bestselling Author of the GeekDad Books

Jon Gertner

Journalist and Author of The Idea Factory

Ray Kurzweil

Award-Winning Technology Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author

P.W. Singer

Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution

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Journalism

Hanna Rosin

Journalist and Author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

Frank Bruni

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and Bestselling Author of Born...

Steve Lopez

Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens...

Bethany McLean

Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Co-Author of All the Devils are Here and the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys...

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Literary Fiction

Dinaw Mengestu

Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven...

Ron Currie, Jr.

Award-Winning Author of Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, Everything Matters! and God is Dead

Danielle Evans

Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35”...

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...

Sebastian Barry

Playwright, Poet, and Award-winning Author of The Secret Scripture and On Canaan's Side

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Memoir

Ping Fu

Co-Founder of Geomagic, Author of Bend, Not Break, Chief Strategy Officer of 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD)

Damien Echols & Lorri Davis

Documentarians, experts on the justice system and speakers on Life After Death

Craig M. Mullaney

Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

Koren Zailckas

Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

R. Dwayne Betts

Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice

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Middle East Experts

Thomas E. Ricks

Pulitzer Prize–Winning Washington Post Journalist and Bestselling Author of Fiasco and The Generals

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens...

Ahmed Rashid

Journalist and Author of Descent into Chaos and Pakistan on the Brink

Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America

Craig M. Mullaney

Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

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Military

Craig M. Mullaney

Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens...

P.W. Singer

Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution

Thomas E. Ricks

Pulitzer Prize–Winning Washington Post Journalist and Bestselling Author of Fiasco and The Generals

Brandon Webb

Retired U.S. Navy SEAL and Author

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Motivation & Inspiration

Doc Hendley

Founder and President of Wine to Water, CNN Hero, and Author of Wine to Water

Josh Hanagarne

Author of the memoir, The World's Strongest Librarian

Ping Fu

Co-Founder of Geomagic, Author of Bend, Not Break, Chief Strategy Officer of 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD)

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...

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

Founder and Executive Director of Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project and Author of A School for My Village

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Politics

Ronald Brownstein

Author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Eli Pariser

Board President of MoveOn.org, Cofounder of Upworthy, and Author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding...

Dante Chinni

Journalist and Author of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the 'Real' America

David Nasaw

Award-Winning Biographer and New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Patriarch and Andrew Carnegie

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens...

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Popular Science

Jim Bell

Award-winning Astronomer and Author of Postcards From Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet

Jon Gertner

Journalist and Author of The Idea Factory

Nicholas Wade

Science Reporter for The New York Times

Deborah Blum

Pultizer-Prize Winner and Author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age...

Edward Humes

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Garbology

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Religion & Spirituality

Lesley Hazleton

Award-winning Journalist, Historian, Blogger, and Author of The First Muslim

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...

Victoria Sweet

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Prize-winning Historian, and Author of God's Hotel

River Jordan

Playwright, Novelist, and Author of Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit

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Sustainability & Environment

Will Allen

CEO of Growing Power, MacArthur Genius Award Winner, and Author of The Good Food Revolution

Edward Humes

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Garbology

David Owen

Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis and The Conundrum

Novella Carpenter

Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential Urban Farmer

Paul Greenberg

James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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Women's Interests

Hanna Rosin

Journalist and Author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

Ping Fu

Co-Founder of Geomagic, Author of Bend, Not Break, Chief Strategy Officer of 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD)

Charlaine Harris

New York Times Bestselling-Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels, the Basis for the Hit HBO Series True Blood...

Delia Ephron

Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright, and Author of The Lion Is In

Kathryn Stockett

Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help

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Younger Audiences

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...

Ruta Sepetys

International Bestselling Author of Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy

Adam Gidwitz

Award-Winning and New York Times-Bestselling Author of In a Glass Grimmly and A Tale Dark and Grimm

Jay Asher

New York Times Bestselling Author of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Future Of Us

Ana Homayoun

Author of That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week and The Myth of the Perfect Girl

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