Stanley N. Alpert

Former New York City Chief Environmental Prosecutor and Author of The Birthday Party

Shalom Auslander

Author of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

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 and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice

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

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

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...

June Cross

Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who...

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

Jane Ganahl

Author of Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife

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

Julie Klam

New York Times-bestselling Author of You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of...

Jen Lancaster

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

Jillian Lauren

New York Times-Bestselling Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

Jacki Lyden

NPR Senior Correspondent and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba

Tim Madigan

Author of I'm Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers

Wendy McClure

Award-winning Author of The Wilder Life

Susan McCorkindale

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

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

Bich Minh Nguyen

Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls

Meghan O’Rourke

Journalist, Award-Winning Poet, and Author of The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Mirta Ojito

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter and Author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus

Frances Richey

Poet and Author of The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War

David Roche

Motivational speaker, humorist, and author of The Bible's Greatest Stories

Geneen Roth

Author of Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money

Sadia Shepard

Documentary Filmmaker and Author of The Girl from Foreign

Tina Sloan

Actress and Author of Changing Shoes: Getting Older—Not Old—with Style, Humor, and Grace

Josh Sundquist

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

Reed Timmer

Author of Into the Storm and Star of Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers

Marshall Ulrich

Successful Entrepreneur, Ultrarunner, Mountaineer, and Motivational Speaker

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

Ted Williams

Author of A Golden Voice

Koren Zailckas

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