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Alexis Abramson, PhD
Leading Expert on Aging, Caregivers, and Mature Adults and Author of The Caregiver's Survival...
Daniel Akst
Journalist and Author of Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess
Stanley N. Alpert
Former New York City Chief Environmental Prosecutor and Author of The Birthday Party
Rosemary Altea
Spiritual Medium, Healer, and International Bestselling Author of A Matter of Life and Death
Erika Andersen
Founder of Proteus International and Author of Growing Great Employees
Shalom Auslander
Author of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
Rick Barrera
Acclaimed Marketing Consultant and Author of Overpromise and Overdeliver: Secrets of Unshakable...
Moustafa Bayoumi
Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Rod Beckstrom
Serial Entrepreneur and Coauthor of The Starfish and the Spider
Jim Bell
Award-winning Astronomer and Author of Postcards From Mars: The First Photographer on the Red...
Laurence Bergreen
Author of Columbus: The Four Voyages
Sheila Murray Bethel, PhD
Author of A New Breed of Leader and CEO of Bethel Leadership Institute
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...
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
Paula Broadwell
National Security Analyst, Army Veteran, and Author of All In: The Education of General David...
Ronald Brownstein
Author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized...
Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...
Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant
Founder and Pastor of The Empowerment Temple
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...
Novella Carpenter
Freelance Journalist and Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential...
Sarah Chayes
Author of The Punishment of Virtue, Former NPR Reporter, and Founder of Arghand
Ron Chernow
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Washington: A Life
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
Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars...
Barbara Corcoran
Founder of The Corcoran Group and Author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your...
Stacy A. Cordery, Ph.D.
Author of Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
Jan Crawford
Chief Legal Correspondent for CBS News and New York Times Bestselling Author of Supreme Conflict
Wendy Reid Crisp
Author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be 60
June Cross
Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who...
Deborah Davis
Art Expert, Writer, and Veteran Film Executive
Devra Davis, MPH, PhD
National Book Award Finalist and Founder of Environmental Health Trust
John Dean
Legal Expert and Author of the New York Times-Bestselling Conservatives Without Conscience
Lisa Delaney
Fitness Expert, Journalist, and Author of Secrets of a Former Fat Girl: How to Drop Two, Four (or...
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
Michael Dowd
Author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your...
Peter Elkind
Fortune Magazine Editor and Co-author of the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room
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
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
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...
Ronald Florence
Historian and Novelist
Deborah Ford
Founder and CEO of Grits, Inc.
Leslie Sokol, PhD, and Marci G. Fox, PhD
Co-authors of Think Confident, Be Confident: A Four-Step Program to Eliminate Doubt and Achieve...
Gary Gach
Author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism
China Galland
A Leading Authority on the Black Madonna, and Lecturer and Teacher of Religion, Race, and...
Jane Ganahl
Author of Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife
Derek Gatehouse
Sales performance consultant and author of The Perfect Salesforce: The 6 Best Practices of the...
Judy Gelman
Co-author of The Book Club Cookbook and The Kids' Book Club Book
Jim Gemmell
Senior Researcher at Microsoft and co-author of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will...
Richard Glaubman
Renowned humanitarian and award-winning co-author of Life Is So Good
Michelle Goldberg
Journalist and New York Times-Bestselling Author
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
John Granger
Harry Potter and Twilight expert, and author of Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind...
Paul Greenberg
James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the...
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Award-winning NPR Religion Correspondent and Author of Fingerprints of God: The Search for the...
SuEllen Hamkins, MD
Women's Mental Health Specialist and Coauthor of The Mother-Daughter Project
Blaine Harden
Journalist and Author of Escape from Camp 14
Hill Harper
Bestselling Author of Letters to a Young Brother and "CSI-NY" Star
Shane Harris
Investigative Journalist and Author of The Watchers
Margaret Heffernan
Five-time CEO and Fast Company Columnist
Doc Hendley
Founder and President of Wine to Water, CNN Hero, and Author of Wine to Water
Kristin Hersh
Critically Acclaimed Pioneering Rock Musician and Author of Rat Girl
Marybeth Hicks
Parenting Expert and Author of Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a...
Chet Holmes
Super Strategist of the Fortune 500
Tracie Hotchner
Pet Expert and Host of Radio Shows Cat Chat™ and Dog Talk®
Edward Humes
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Garbology
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...
Jason Jennings
One of the Three Most In-Demand Business Speakers as Named by USA Today
Akash Kapur
Journalist and Author of India Becoming
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 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
Julie Klam
New York Times-bestselling Author of You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of...
Jeffrey Kluger
Journalist and Author of The Sibling Effect
Bart Kosko, PhD, JD
Bestselling author of Noise and Fuzzy Thinking
Rabbi 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
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times Bestselling-Author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land
Ray Kurzweil
Award-Winning Technology Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author
Robert Lacey
Bestselling Author and Historian
Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH
Author of What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older
Kelly Lambert, Ph.D.
Professor, Researcher, and Author of The Lab Rat Chronicles
Dr. Denise Lamothe
Expert on Emotional Eating and Author of The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping...
Steve Lance
Emmy Award–winning Advertising Guru
Jillian Lauren
New York Times-Bestselling Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Suzanne Braun Levine
Author of How We Love Now and Fifty Is the New Fifty
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