Previous Speakers

Greg Barnhisel
Cat Bohannon
Percival Everett
Sharon G. Flake
Elizabeth Gilbert
Chris Hayes
Joe Hill
Antonia Hylton
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Elizabeth Kolbert/Terry Tempest Williams
R.F. Kuang

Jill Lepore
Kelly Starling Lyons
Beth Macy
Stewart O’Nan
Pádraig Ó Tuama & Philip Metres
Karin Slaughter
Traci Sorell
Angie Thomas
Dr. Tahirah Walker
Jess Walter
Damon Young/Brian Broome & Joy Priest)

Cameron Barnett
Jan Beatty
Edda Fields Black
Victoria Chang
Billy Collins
Hernan Diaz
Jennifer Egan
Leif Enger
Kevin Henkes
Pico Iyer
Tracy Kidder

A.S. King
Alex Michaelides
Anna Monardo
Jamar Nicholas
Heather Cox Richardson
Lauren Tarshis
Colm Tóibín
Liann Tsoukas & Robb Ruck
Jesmyn Ward
Ed Yong

Hanif Abdurraquib
Max Brallier
Mary Crossley
Leon Ford
Bonnie Garmus
Joy Harjo
Ibram X. Kendi
Emily Kline
Patricia Lockwood

Idra Novey
Ruth Ozeki
Sara Shepard
Suzanne Simard
Clint Smith
Zoje Stage
Natasha Tarpley
Hanya Yanagihara

Are the Arts Essential?
Ayad Akhtar
Neil Baldwin
John Woodrow Cox
Tuhin Das
Anthony Doerr
Ken Gormley
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Patrick Radden Keefe
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Maxwell King & Louise Lippincott
Bruce Ledewitz
Candice Millard
Terry Miller

The No Club
Marylynne Pitz/Laura Malt Schneiderman
Mickey Rowe
George Saunders
Ed Simon
Clint Smith
Jen Spyra
Douglas Stuart
Judith Vollmer/Mihaela Moscaliuc
Ruth Ware
Jasmine Warga
Isabel Wilkerson
Rita Williams-Garcia

Elizabeth Acevedo
Laurie Halse Anderson
Gregg Behr
Brit Bennett
Brian Broome
S. Brook Corfman
Bill Cowher
Ron Donoughe
Sharon Draper
Bernardine Evaristo
Yaa Gyasi
Joy Harjo
Heather McGhee
Kazuo Ishiguro and Madeline Miller
Andy Norman

Naomi Shihab Nye
Maggie O’Farrell
Mark Oppenheimer
Brian Primack
Tom Rea
Alaina E Roberts
Karen Russell
Pam Munoz Ryan
Maggie Smith
David Treuer
Ocean Vuong
Lawrence Wright
Kelly Yang
Charles Yu

Margaret Atwood
Anna Bruno
Susan Choi
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Damon Young
Jerry Craft
Robin DiAngelo
Esi Edugyan
Chris Frantz
Dan Gemeinhart
Sara Pipher Gilliam
Blake Gopnik
Brian Greene
Lee Gutkind
David Harris
Stephen Heyman
Jodi Kantor
Caroline Kim & Alexander Chee
Lily King
Jarrett Krosoczka

Laila Lalami
Lois Lowry
Carmen Maria Machado
Colum McCann
Suzanne Nossel
Michael Ondaatje
Tommy Orange
Deesha Philyaw
Linda Sue Park
Shannon Reed
Mo Rocca
Jim Rugg
Rebecca Senf
David Sibley
Lauren Tarshis
Marisel Vera
Chip Walter
Terry Tempest Williams

A is for Archive with Blake Gopnik
Ashton Applewhite
Reza Aslan
Stephen Belber
Stephen Chbosky
Douglas Cooper
Sloane Crosley
Angie Cruz
John Fried
Winnie Frolik
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jeff Gordinier
Jennifer L. Holm
Ilya Kaminsky
Erin Entrada Kelly
Ibram X Kendi
Min Jin Lee
Jill Lepore
Valeria Luiselli
Julie Lythcott-Haims

Beth Macy
Madeline Miller
Ottessa Moshfegh
Ilja Nieuwland
Sigrid Nunez
James Patterson
Michael Pollan
Richard Powers
Claudia Rankine & Carrie Mae Weems
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Sonia Sanchez & Marilyn Nelson
Frank Santoro
Adam Savage
Matt Schatz
Neal Stephenson
Jonathan Van Ness
Jonah Winter
Michael Wurster
Damon Young

Jad Abumrad
Fredrik Backman
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Paul Beatty
Katherine Boo
Daniel Borzutzky
Bryan Collier
Dave Eggers
Susan Faludi
Sharon G. Flake
M. Gessen
Eliza Griswold
Mohsin Hamid
Tayari Jones
Dan Kamin
Li Young Lee
Rachel Masilamani
Meg Medina
Sarah Menkedick
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Joyce Carol Oates
Sydelle Pearl
Cecile Richards
Jason Reynolds
Elizabeth Rosner
Arundhati Roy
Rob Ruck
Tammy Ryan
Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams
Neal Shusterman
Tracy K Smith
Pete Souza
Scott Stern
Melissa Sweet
Linda Tashbook
Cori Thomas
Luis Alberto Urrea
Mark Whitaker
Mo Willems
Nicola Yoon

Sherman Alexie
Isabel Allende
Katherine Applegate
Chris Bohjalian
Bernd Brunner
Ron Chernow
Chris Colfer
Eric Dorfman
Jennifer Egan
Timothy Egan
Jonathan Safran Foer
Roxane Gay
Chris Grabenstein
City Theatre & PigPen Theatre with The Old Man and The Old Moon
Lauren Groff
Nathan Hill
Nancy Isenberg
Niki Kapsambelis

Christina Baker Kline
Nicole Krauss
Marissa Landrigan
Daniel Lowe
Helen Macdonald
Jake Oresick
Katherine Paterson
Pete Peterson and Douglas Branson
Dav Pilkey
Patricia Polacco
Annie Proulx
Richard Russo
Bill Steigerwald
Colm Toibin
Amor Towles
Scott Turow
Gene Luen Yang

Kwame Alexander
Judy Blume
Douglas Brinkley
Daniel James Brown
Theresa Brown
Chris Cleave
Alan Cumming
Matthew Desmond
Anthony Doerr
Fierce Reads: Marissa Meyer, Emma Mills, Caleb Roehrig, and Anna Banks
Sherrie Flick
Sam Hazo & Parneshia Jones
Kevin Henkes
Alice Hoffman
Emily St. John Mandel
Ann M. Martin
Candice Millard
Nancy Moses
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Gregory Pardlo and Yona Harvey

Mary-Louise Parker
Stephan Pastis
Ann Patchett
SL Price
Keith Reddin
Diane Rehm
John Robison
Robert Sabuda
David Sibley
Patti Smith
Bryan Stevenson
Elizabeth Strout
Jeffrey Toobin
Siobhan Vivian, Jonathan Auxier, and Nick Courage
Sharon Washington
Colson Whitehead
Jacqueline Woodson
Hanya Yanagihara
Anna Ziegler

Jesse Andrews
Margaret Atwood
Philip Beard
Cece Bell
Steve Berry
Anita Diamant
Kate DiCamillo
Sheri Fink
Richard Flanagan
Alexandra Fuller
Terrance Hayes
Elizabeth Kolbert
Dennis Lehane
Lois Lowry
David Mitchell

Celeste Ng
Peter Oresick & Sarah Rose Nordgren
Chuck Palahniuk
Louise Penny
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ruth Reichl
Andrew Roberts
Rainbow Rowell
Andrew Solomon
Mary Jo Sonntag
Gerald Stern
Héctor Tobar
Jesmyn Ward
Robert Yune

Jacob Bacharach
Helene Cooper
Shane Evans
Richard Ford
Kathleen George
Elizabeth Gilbert
Wil Haygood
Jon Klassen & Mac Barnett
Gregory Maguire
James McBride
Colum McCann

Kent Nelson
RJ Palacio
Ann Patchett
Jodi Picoult
Rachel Renee Russell
Sonia Sotomayor
Tom Sweterlitsch
Ayelet Waldman
Elizabeth Wein
Simon Winchester

Allison Amend
Geraldine Brooks
Christopher Paul Curtis
James Dashner
Sarah Dessen
Jared Diamond
Ian Frazier
Sue Grafton
Daniel Handler
Yona Harvey
Paula McLain

Terry McMillan
Michael Moss
David Nasaw
Nathaniel Philbrick
RZA
George Saunders
Rebecca Skloot & David “Sonny” Lacks
Amy Tan
Siobhan Vivian & Jenny Han
Anthony Wallace
Chip Walter

Tom Angleberger
Beth Bosworth
Andrew Clements
Judy Collins
Sharon Creech
Stephen Dau
Jeffrey Eugenides
Neil Gaiman
Ellen Goodman
Sebastian Junger
Erik Larson
Candice Millard

Wes Moore
Walter Dean Myers & Christopher Myers
Michele Norris & Isabel Wilkerson
Téa Obreht
Stewart O’Nan & Jane McCafferty
Lincoln Peirce
Lisa See
Michael Sims
Ron Tanner
Jeffrey Toobin
Abraham Verghese
Nora Zelevansky

Madeleine Albright
Theresa Brown
Shannon Cain
Keith Donohue
Gayle Forman
Jonathan Franzen
Cornelia Funke
Matthew Gallaway
John Green
Seymour Hersh
Tracy Kidder

Michael Lisicky
John Lithgow
Yann Martel
Megan McDonald
Kadir Nelson
Chuck Palahniuk
Ann Patchett
Nathaniel Philbrick
Rick Riordan
Sapphire
Stacy Schiff

Elizabeth Alexander
Annie Barrows
Justice Stephen Breyer
Lee Child
Joy Ike & C.M. Burroughs
Sharon G. Flake
Madhur Jaffrey
Mary Karr

Jeff Kinney
David Lipsky
Barry Lopez
Gregory Maguire
Audrey Niffenegger
Ann Patchett & Renée Fleming
Katherine Paterson
Andrew Ross Sorkin

John Adams
Katherine Ayers
Lidia Bastianich
Janet Browne
Billy Collins
Devra Davis
Junot Díaz
Elizabeth Gilbert
Beverly Jenkins
Judith Jones

Steven Kellogg
Nam Le
Wendell & Florence Minor
Lorrie Moore
Walter Dean Myers
Sara Pennypacker
Marjane Satrapi
Paul Theroux
Tom Wolfe

Anthony Bourdain
Bill Bryson
Michael Chabon
Annie Dillard
Louise Erdrich
Betty Friedan
Jane Goodall
Spalding Gray
Kazuo Ishiguro
Erica Jong
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Jhumpa Lahiri
Spike Lee
Jonathan Lethem
David Macaulay
Norman Mailer

Frank McCourt
David McCullough
Arthur Miller
Susan Orlean
Jacques Pepin
George Plimpton
David Sedaris
Susan Sontag
Gloria Steinem
Studs Terkel
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
Wendy Wasserstein
John Edgar Wideman
August Wilson
Tom Wolfe