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
2018-19
Katherine Boo
Dave Eggers and Mokhtar Alkhanshali
Masha Gessen
Tayari Jones
Min Jin Lee
Jill Lepore
Valeria Luiselli
Ottessa Moshfegh
Joyce Carol Oates
Luis Alberto Urrea
2017-18
Sherman Alexie
Isabel Allende
Paul Beatty
Ron Chernow
Jennifer Egan
Susan Faludi
Mohsin Hamid
Nancy Isenberg
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Richard Russo
2016-17
Douglas Brinkley
Timothy Egan
Roxane Gay
Lauren Groff
Helen Macdonald
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Diane Rehm
Patti Smith
Elizabeth Strout
Colson Whitehead
2015-16
Daniel James Brown
Anita Diamant
Anthony Doerr
Elizabeth Kolbert
Emily St. John Mandel
David Mitchell
Ruth Reichl
Andrew Solomon
Bryan Stevenson
