Previous authors presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
 
          2024-25
 
          Colm Tóibín
 
          Pico Iyer
 
          Heather Cox Richardson
 
          Billy Collins
 
          Antonia Hylton
 
          Cat Bohannon
 
          Percival Everett
 
          Leif Enger
 
          R.F. Kuang
 
          Elizabeth Kolbert & Terry Tempest Williams
2023-2024
 
          Zadie Smith
 
          Matthew Desmond
 
          Mary Beard
 
          Abraham Verghese
 
          Rebecca Makkai
 
          Jennifer Egan
 
          Tracy Kidder
 
          Hernan Diaz
 
          Ed Yong
 
          Jesmyn Ward
2022-23
 
          Hanif Abdurraqib
 
          Anthony Doerr
 
          Abdulrazak Gurnah
 
          Joy Harjo
 
          Patrick Radden Keefe
 
          Patricia Lockwood
 
          Candice Millard
 
          Ruth Ozeki
 
          Clint Smith
 
          Hanya Yanagihara
2021-22
 
          Ayad Akhtar
 
          Brit Bennett
 
          Yaa Gyasi
 
          Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
          Maggie O’Farrell
 
          George Saunders
 
          Douglas Stuart
 
          Isabel Wilkerson
 
          Lawrence Wright
 
          Charles Yu
2020-21
 
          Susan Choi
 
          Ta-Nehisi Coates
 
          Bernardine Evaristo
 
          Brian Greene
 
          Lily King
 
          Laila Lalami
 
          Karen Russell
 
          David Treuer
 
          Ocean Vuong
 
          Terry Tempest Williams
2019-20
 
          Reza Aslan
 
          Esi Edugyan
 
          Doris Kearns Goodwin
 
          Ibram X. Kendi
 
          Carmen Maria Machado
 
          Madeline Miller
 
          Sigrid Nunez
 
          Michael Ondaatje
 
          Tommy Orange
 
          Richard Powers
Selection of Speakers 1991-2014
Madeleine Albright
Lidia Bastianich
Anthony Bourdain
Geraldine Brooks
Bill Bryson
Michael Chabon
Lee Child
Annie Dillard
Louise Erdrich
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jonathan Franzen
Betty Friedan
Jane Goodall
Spalding Gray
Kazuo Ishiguro
Madhur Jaffrey
Erica Jong
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Jhumpa Lahiri
Spike Lee
Jonathan Lethem
John Lithgow
David Macaulay
Norman Mailer
James McBride
Frank McCourt
David McCullough
Candice Millard
Arthur Miller
Audrey Niffenegger
Susan Orlean
Ann Patchett
Jacques Pepin
George Plimpton
Marjane Satrapi
George Saunders
David Sedaris
Lisa See
Susan Sontag
Sonia Sotomayor
Gloria Steinem
Studs Terkel
Jeffrey Toobin
John Updike
Abraham Verghese
Kurt Vonnegut
Wendy Wasserstein
John Edgar Wideman
August Wilson
Tom Wolfe
 
				 
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
             
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
             
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
             
           
           
           
           
           
           
             
           
           
           
										
										
										 
										
										
										 
										
										
										 
										
										
										


![“[So Far Gone] makes the general proposition that we can get back to a sense of family, of community, and of laughing at the same absurdities of life," @jesswalterbooks speaking at Ten Evenings.
Thank you, Jess Walter, for reminding us how powerful humor can be in building community. We left the hall filled with joy and hope. 
Thank you to our sponsors, @duquesneuniversity and The Clark Hunter Foundation through Hunter Associates.
To all our patrons, thank you for joining us. See you on November 10th for another great lecture with @padmalakshmi.](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)