Previous authors presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures

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