Previous authors presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
2022-23
Mickey Rowe
Ruth Ware
2021-22
Bill Cowher
2020-21
Margaret Atwood
Robin DiAngelo
Chris Frantz
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jodi Kantor
Heather McGhee
Suzanne Nossel
Mo Rocca
2019-20
Stephen Chbosky
Anne Enright
Jeff Gordinier
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Beth Macy
Colum McCann
James Patterson
Sara Pipher Gilliam
Neal Stephenson
Jonathan Van Ness
2018-19
Ashton Applewhite
Fredrik Backman
Sloane Crosley
Michael Pollan
Anita Sarkeesian & Ebony Adams
Adam Savage
Pete Souza
Damon Young
2017-18
Jad Abumrad
Bernd Brunner
Chris Colfer
Nicole Krauss
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Cecile Richards
Elizabeth Rosner
Arundhati Roy
Jonathan Safran Foer
Colm Toibin
Mark Whitaker
2016-17
Judy Blume
Chris Bohjalian
Alan Cumming
Matthew Desmond
Nathan Hill
Alice Hoffman
Christina Baker Kline
Candice Millard
Mary Louise Parker
Ann Patchett
Annie Proulx
David Sibley
Jeffrey Toobin
Amor Towles
Scott Turow
2015-16
Margaret Atwood
Chris Cleave
Celeste Ng
Louise Penny
John Elder Robison
