Penguin Speakers Bureau

Sebastian Barry
Playwright, Poet, and Award-winning Author of The Secret Scripture and On Canaan's Side
Sarah Blake
Author of the New York Times-bestselling The Postmistress
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Eleanor Brown
New York Times-bestselling Author of The Weird Sisters
Ron Currie, Jr.
Award-Winning Author of Everything Matters! and God is Dead
Junot Díaz
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Eric Jerome Dickey
New York Times Bestselling Novelist
Kim Edwards
Author of The New York Times Bestselling Novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Nuruddin Farah
Internationally-Renowned, Award-Winning Author of Knots, Links, and Crossbones
Steven Galloway
Author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
Jane Green
New York Times-Bestselling Author
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska and...
Charlaine Harris
New York Times Bestselling-Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels, the Basis for the Hit HBO...
Aleksandar Hemon
Author of The Lazarus Project and Love & Obstacles
Beth Hoffman
New York Times Bestselling Author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times Bestselling-Author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
John Lescroart
New York Times-Bestselling Novelist
Cammie McGovern
Autism Expert and Award-winning Author
Dinaw Mengestu
Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful...
Richard Peck
Newbery Award–winning Children’s Author
Ali Sethi
Author of The Wish Maker
Elif Shafak
Internationally Acclaimed Author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul
Kathryn Stockett
Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help
Susan Vreeland
Award-winning and Bestselling Author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia
Jason Wright
New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Wednesday Letters

Alexis Abramson, PhD
Leading Expert on Aging, Caregivers, and Mature Adults and Author of The Caregiver's Survival...
Erika Andersen
Founder of Proteus International and Author of Growing Great Employees
Rick Barrera
Acclaimed Marketing Consultant and Author of Overpromise and Overdeliver: Secrets of Unshakable...
Rod Beckstrom
Serial Entrepreneur and Coauthor of The Starfish and the Spider
Sheila Murray Bethel, PhD
Author of A New Breed of Leader and CEO of Bethel Leadership Institute
Ron Chernow
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Washington: A Life
Peter Elkind
Fortune Magazine Editor and Co-author of the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room
Sydney Finkelstein
Steven Roth Professor of Management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Author of Why...
Bruce Fleet
Leading financial advisor and author of The Solomon Secret: 7 Principles of Financial Success...
Deborah Ford
Founder and CEO of Grits, Inc.
Derek Gatehouse
Sales performance consultant and author of The Perfect Salesforce: The 6 Best Practices of the...
Margaret Heffernan
Five-time CEO and Fast Company Columnist
Chet Holmes
Super Strategist of the Fortune 500
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
Steve Lance
Emmy Award–winning Advertising Guru
Jones Loflin
Co-Author of Juggling Elephants and “Trainer of Trainers” for Who Moved My Cheese?
Roger Lowenstein
Financial Journalist and Bestselling Author of The End of Wall Street
David Magee
Award-winning columnist, top business leader, and author of How Toyota Became #1
Bethany McLean
Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Co-Author of All the Devils are Here and the National...
Marilyn Paul, PhD
Organization and Management Consultant
Geneen Roth
Author of Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money
Juliet Schor
Author of True Wealth
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Journalist and Author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Dan Solin
Registered Investment Advisor
Ben Tarnoff
Author of Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious...
Dana Thomas
Author of the New York Times Bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Marshall Ulrich
Successful Entrepreneur, Ultrarunner, Mountaineer, and Motivational Speaker
Laura Vanderkam
Journalist and Author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Clara Villarosa
Author of Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women and Founder of the...
Greg Witt
Explorer, mountaineer, adventure guide, and author of Ultimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to...

Shalom Auslander
Author of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
R. Dwayne Betts
Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice
Chaz Bono
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of Transition
Eleanor Brown
New York Times-bestselling Author of The Weird Sisters
Wendy Burden
Author of Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Stephen Dau
Author of The Book of Jonas
William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.
Author of A Jane Austen Education
Junot Díaz
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book...
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska and...
Laura Harrington
Award-winning Playwright and Author of Alice Bliss
Kristin Hersh
Critically Acclaimed Pioneering Rock Musician and Author of Rat Girl
Julie Klam
New York Times-bestselling Author of You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of...
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
Jillian Lauren
New York Times-Bestselling Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Craig M. Mullaney
Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Nami Mun
Author of Miles From Nowhere
Bich Minh Nguyen
Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls
Mahbod Seraji
Author of Rooftops of Tehran
Josh Sundquist
Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
Koren Zailckas
Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Daniel Akst
Journalist and Author of Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess
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
Deborah Blum
Pultizer-Prize Winner and Author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic...
Caitlin Boyle
Healthy Living Blogger and Author of Operation Beautiful: Transforming the Way You See Yourself...
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...
Wendy Burden
Author of Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir
Dante Chinni
Journalist and Author of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the 'Real' America
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
June Cross
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who...
Stephen Dau
Author of The Book of Jonas
Cathy Davidson
Author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live,...
Deborah Davis
Art Expert, Writer, and Veteran Film Executive
William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.
Author of A Jane Austen Education
Paul Dobransky, MD
Psychiatrist, Dating Expert, and Author of The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love
Piero Ferrucci
Renowned Psychotherapist and Author of The Power of Kindness
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
Ronald Florence
Historian and Novelist
Deborah Ford
Founder and CEO of Grits, Inc.
Judy Gelman
Co-author of The Book Club Cookbook and The Kids' Book Club Book
Michelle Goldberg
Journalist and New York Times-Bestselling Author
John Granger
Harry Potter and Twilight expert, and author of Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind...
Laura Harrington
Award-winning Playwright and Author of Alice Bliss
Kristin Hersh
Critically Acclaimed Pioneering Rock Musician and Author of Rat Girl
Ed Husain
Author of The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left
Dave Isay
Founder of StoryCorps and Editor of Listening Is an Act of Love, Mom and All There Is: Love...
Akash Kapur
Journalist and Author of India Becoming
Joshua Kendall
Award-Winning Journalist and Author of The Man Who Made Lists and The Forgotten Founding Father
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
Eric Klinenberg
Author and Noted Social Commentator
Jeffrey Kluger
Journalist and Author of The Sibling Effect
Vicki Levy Krupp
Co-author of The Book Club Cookbook and The Kids' Book Club Book
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
Robert Lacey
Bestselling Author and Historian
Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH
Author of What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older
David T. Levinson
Author of Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins and Founder of Big Sunday
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
Jacki Lyden
NPR Senior Correspondent and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD
Happiness Researcher and Author of The How of Happiness
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace Program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1...
Nami Mun
Author of Miles From Nowhere
David Owen
Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis and The Conundrum
Eli Pariser
Board President of MoveOn.org, Cofounder of Cloud Tiger Media, and Author of The Filter Bubble:...
John Perkins
Author of the New York Times Bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History...
Daniel Pinchbeck
Pop Psychedelic Author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Notes from the Edge Times
Mary Pipher
American Clinical Psychologist and Author of the Revolutionary Bestseller Reviving Ophelia
Frances Richey
Poet and Author of The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
Jon Ronson
International Bestselling Author of The Psychopath Test, Them: Adventures with Extremists, and...
Nick Rosen
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, and Author of Off the Grid
Carne Ross
Author of The Leaderless Revolution and Founder of Independent Diplomat
Julie Salamon
Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Critic
Rhonda Saunders
Founder of the Stalking and Threat Assessment Team in Los Angeles and Coauthor of Whisper of...
Juliet Schor
Author of True Wealth
Renée Schultz
Marriage & Family Therapist and Coauthor of The Mother-Daughter Project
Ali Sethi
Author of The Wish Maker
Elif Shafak
Internationally Acclaimed Author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul
Daniel J. Sharfstein
Author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Journalist and Author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Sadia Shepard
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of The Girl from Foreign
Thea Singer
Journalist and Author of Stress Less
Laurence C. Smith, PhD
Scientist and Author of The World in 2050
Mark Stevenson
Author of An Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer 'What's Next?'
Ben Tarnoff
Author of Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious...
Dana Thomas
Author of the New York Times Bestseller 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
Zach Wahls
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
Michael Willrich
Award-Winning Historian and Author of Pox: An American History
Koren Zailckas
Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Moustafa Bayoumi
Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Chaz Bono
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of Transition
Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant
Founder and Pastor of The Empowerment Temple
June Cross
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who...
Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book...
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
China Galland
A Leading Authority on the Black Madonna, and Lecturer and Teacher of Religion, Race, and...
Richard Glaubman
Renowned humanitarian and award-winning co-author of Life Is So Good
Hill Harper
Bestselling Author of Letters to a Young Brother and "CSI-NY" Star
Margaret Heffernan
Five-time CEO and Fast Company Columnist
Akash Kapur
Journalist and Author of India Becoming
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
Jacki Lyden
NPR Senior Correspondent and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Nami Mun
Author of Miles From Nowhere
Bich Minh Nguyen
Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls
Mirta Ojito
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter and Author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
Ali Sethi
Author of The Wish Maker
Elif Shafak
Internationally Acclaimed Author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul
Sadia Shepard
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of The Girl from Foreign
Josh Sundquist
Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall
Clara Villarosa
Author of Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women and Founder of the...
Zach Wahls
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

Michael John Carley
Author of Asperger’s from the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with...
Stacy A. Cordery, Ph.D.
Author of Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
Cathy Davidson
Author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live,...
William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.
Author of A Jane Austen Education
Ana Homayoun
Author of That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week
David L. Marcus
Education Writer and Author of Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find...
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace Program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1...
Craig M. Mullaney
Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Laurence C. Smith, PhD
Scientist and Author of The World in 2050
The Philosophy Guys
Authors of the New York Times Bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

Sebastian Barry
Playwright, Poet, and Award-winning Author of The Secret Scripture and On Canaan's Side
Erica Bauermeister
Author of The School of Essential Ingredients and Joy for Beginners
David Benedictus
Author of Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the First Authorized Sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh
Sarah Blake
Author of the New York Times-bestselling The Postmistress
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Eleanor Brown
New York Times-bestselling Author of The Weird Sisters
Elizabeth Brundage
Author of A Stranger Like You
Harriet Scott Chessman
Author of Someone Not Really Her Mother and Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Ana Marie Cox
Original Voice of the Political Blog Wonkette and Time Magazine Columnist
Ron Currie, Jr.
Award-Winning Author of Everything Matters! and God is Dead
Stephen Dau
Author of The Book of Jonas
Junot Díaz
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Eric Jerome Dickey
New York Times Bestselling Novelist
Kim Edwards
Author of The New York Times Bestselling Novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Danielle Evans
Author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Recipient of the National Book...
Nuruddin Farah
Internationally-Renowned, Award-Winning Author of Knots, Links, and Crossbones
Steven Galloway
Author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska and...
Laura Harrington
Award-winning Playwright and Author of Alice Bliss
Charlaine Harris
New York Times Bestselling-Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels, the Basis for the Hit HBO...
Aleksandar Hemon
Author of The Lazarus Project and Love & Obstacles
Beth Hoffman
New York Times Bestselling Author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
John Lescroart
New York Times-Bestselling Novelist
Patricia McArdle
Author of Farishta and Winner of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Cammie McGovern
Autism Expert and Award-winning Author
Dinaw Mengestu
Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful...
Nami Mun
Author of Miles From Nowhere
Bich Minh Nguyen
Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls
Stewart O’Nan
Author of twelve novels, including The Odds and Emily, Alone
Helen Oyeyemi
Award-winning Writer and Author of Mr. Fox
Richard Peck
Newbery Award–winning Children’s Author
Nathaniel Rich
Senior Editor of The Paris Review and Author of The Mayor's Tongue
Ann B. Ross
Author of the Miss Julia Novels
Mahbod Seraji
Author of Rooftops of Tehran
Ali Sethi
Author of The Wish Maker
Elif Shafak
Internationally Acclaimed Author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul
Kathryn Stockett
Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help
Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Filmmaker, Director, Actress, Novelist, and Author of Glow
Padma Venkatraman
Bestselling Author of Climbing the Stairs
Susan Vreeland
Award-winning and Bestselling Author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia
Rosemary Wells
Bestselling Illustrator and Author of the Max and Ruby Series
Jason Wright
New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Wednesday Letters

Sebastian Barry
Playwright, Poet, and Award-winning Author of The Secret Scripture and On Canaan's Side
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
Chaz Bono
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of Transition
Geraldine Brooks
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning March and the International Bestselling People of the Book
Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...
Sarah Chayes
Author of The Punishment of Virtue, Former NPR Reporter, and Founder of Arghand
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Ron Currie, Jr.
Award-Winning Author of Everything Matters! and God is Dead
Junot Díaz
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Nuruddin Farah
Internationally-Renowned, Award-Winning Author of Knots, Links, and Crossbones
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
John Green
#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska and...
Hill Harper
Bestselling Author of Letters to a Young Brother and "CSI-NY" Star
Aleksandar Hemon
Author of The Lazarus Project and Love & Obstacles
Doc Hendley
Founder and President of Wine to Water, CNN Hero, and Author of Wine to Water
Dave Isay
Founder of StoryCorps and Editor of Listening Is an Act of Love, Mom and All There Is: Love...
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times Bestselling-Author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land
Jean Kwok
Award-winning Author of Girl in Translation
Steve Lopez
Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Dinaw Mengestu
Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful...
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace Program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1...
Craig M. Mullaney
Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
Authors of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides
Bich Minh Nguyen
Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls
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 and The Conundrum
Gin Phillips
Author of The Well and the Mine
Nick Rosen
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, and Author of Off the Grid
Mahbod Seraji
Author of Rooftops of Tehran
Elif Shafak
Internationally Acclaimed Author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul
Sadia Shepard
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of The Girl from Foreign
Kathryn Stockett
Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Help
Josh Sundquist
Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
Koren Zailckas
Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...
Paula Butturini
Journalist and Author of Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Novella Carpenter
Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential...
Judy Gelman
Co-author of The Book Club Cookbook and The Kids' Book Club Book
Paul Greenberg
James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the...
Vicki Levy Krupp
Co-author of The Book Club Cookbook and The Kids' Book Club Book
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times Bestselling-Author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land
Dr. Denise Lamothe
Expert on Emotional Eating and Author of The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping...
Geneen Roth
Author of Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money

Alexis Abramson, PhD
Leading Expert on Aging, Caregivers, and Mature Adults and Author of The Caregiver's Survival...
Rosemary Altea
Spiritual Medium, Healer, and International Bestselling Author of A Matter of Life and Death
Amy Boesky
Author of What We Have: One Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival
Chaz Bono
LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of Transition
Caitlin Boyle
Healthy Living Blogger and Author of Operation Beautiful: Transforming the Way You See Yourself...
Michael J. Breus, PhD
WebMD's Official Expert on Sleep
Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...
Paula Butturini
Journalist and Author of Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Michael John Carley
Author of Asperger’s from the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with...
Novella Carpenter
Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential...
Lisa Delaney
Fitness Expert, Journalist, and Author of Secrets of a Former Fat Girl: How to Drop Two, Four (or...
Paul Dobransky, MD
Psychiatrist, Dating Expert, and Author of The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love
Tom Farley, Jr.
New York Times–Bestselling Author of The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
Piero Ferrucci
Renowned Psychotherapist and Author of The Power of Kindness
Leslie Sokol, PhD, and Marci G. Fox, PhD
Co-authors of Think Confident, Be Confident: A Four-Step Program to Eliminate Doubt and Achieve...
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
SuEllen Hamkins, MD
Women's Mental Health Specialist and Coauthor of The Mother-Daughter Project
Kristin Hersh
Critically Acclaimed Pioneering Rock Musician and Author of Rat Girl
Lauren Kessler
Author of My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
Ray Kurzweil
Award-Winning Technology Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author
Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH
Author of What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older
Dr. Denise Lamothe
Expert on Emotional Eating and Author of The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping...
Steve Lopez
Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD
Happiness Researcher and Author of The How of Happiness
Susan McCorkindale
Author of 500 Acres and No Place to Hide and Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl
Cammie McGovern
Autism Expert and Award-winning Author
Elissa Montanti
Founder and Director of the Global Medical Relief Fund
Dr. Donnica Moore
Women's Health Expert and Author of Women's Health For Life
Captain Charles Moore
Author of Plastic Ocean and Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Institute
Meghan O’Rourke
Journalist, Award-Winning Poet, and Author of The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
Marilyn Paul, PhD
Organization and Management Consultant
Mary Pipher
American Clinical Psychologist and Author of the Revolutionary Bestseller Reviving Ophelia
Geneen Roth
Author of Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money
Julie Salamon
Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Critic
Kathleen Sharp
Author of True-Life Thriller Blood Feud
Thea Singer
Journalist and Author of Stress Less
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Neuroanatomist and Author of the New York Times Bestseller My Stroke of Insight: A Brain...
Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Filmmaker, Director, Actress, Novelist, and Author of Glow
Marshall Ulrich
Successful Entrepreneur, Ultrarunner, Mountaineer, and Motivational Speaker
Marc Wallack
Coauthor of Back to Life after a Heart Crisis
Karol Ward, LCSW
Licensed Psychotherapist, Communication Consultant, and Author of Worried Sick
Judith Warner
Journalist and Author of the New York Times Bestseller Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of...
Michael Willrich
Award-Winning Historian and Author of Pox: An American History
Greg Witt
Explorer, mountaineer, adventure guide, and author of Ultimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to...
Koren Zailckas
Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

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...
Ron Chernow
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Washington: A Life
Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Ghost Wars and The Bin...
Deborah Davis
Art Expert, Writer, and Veteran Film Executive
William Deresiewicz, Ph.D.
Author of A Jane Austen Education
Ronald Florence
Historian and Novelist
Akash Kapur
Journalist and Author of India Becoming
Joshua Kendall
Award-Winning Journalist and Author of The Man Who Made Lists and The Forgotten Founding Father
Ross King
New York Times Bestselling Author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Robert Lacey
Bestselling Author and Historian
Daniel J. Sharfstein
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