Previous authors presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
![Judy Blume on Stage](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/NewNoted-1.jpg)
2022-23
![Mickey Rowe](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mickey-Rowe.jpg)
Mickey Rowe
![Ruth Ware headshot](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ruth-Ware.jpg)
Ruth Ware
2021-22
![Bill Cowher](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bill_Cowher.jpg)
Bill Cowher
2020-21
![Headshot of Margaret Atwood with a pink background. Atwood is a senior white woman wearing a beautiful scarf and red lipstick, with short curly hair. She smiles into the camera.](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Margaret-Atwood.jpg)
Margaret Atwood
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Rboin-DiAngelo.jpg)
Robin DiAngelo
![Headshot of Chris Frantz](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Chris-Frantz.jpg)
Chris Frantz
![Photo of Kazuo Ishiguro](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ishiguro-1.jpg)
Kazuo Ishiguro
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jodi-Kantor-1.jpg)
Jodi Kantor
![Heather McGhee](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Heather-McGhee.jpg)
Heather McGhee
![Headshot of Suzanne Nossel](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Suzanne-Nossel.jpg)
Suzanne Nossel
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Mo-Rocca.jpg)
Mo Rocca
2018-19
![Ashton Applewhite Photo](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ashton-Applewhite.jpg)
Ashton Applewhite
![Photo of Fredrik Backman](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Backman-1.jpg)
Fredrik Backman
![Sloane Crosley Photo](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Sloane-Crosley.jpg)
Sloane Crosley
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Michael-Pollan-1.jpg)
Michael Pollan
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Anita-Ebony.jpg)
Anita Sarkeesian & Ebony Adams
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/adam-savage.jpg)
Adam Savage
![Photo of Pete Souza](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/souza.jpg)
Pete Souza
![Damon Young Photo](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Damon-Young.jpg)
Damon Young
2017-18
![Jad Abumrad](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Jad-1.jpg)
Jad Abumrad
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Brunner.jpg)
Bernd Brunner
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chris-colferbw.jpg)
Chris Colfer
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Krauss-1.jpg)
Nicole Krauss
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Lidia.jpg)
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
![Cecile Richards](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Richards-1.jpg)
Cecile Richards
![Photo of Eliza Griswold](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Eliza.jpg)
Elizabeth Rosner
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Roy.jpg)
Arundhati Roy
![Jonathan Safran Foer](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Safran-Foer-1.jpg)
Jonathan Safran Foer
![Colm Toibin](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Toibin-1.jpg)
Colm Toibin
![Mark Whitaker](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Whitaker-1.jpg)
Mark Whitaker
2016-17
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Jude-Blume.jpg)
Judy Blume
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Chris-Bohjalian.jpg)
Chris Bohjalian
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Alan-Cumming.jpg)
Alan Cumming
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Matthew-Desmond.jpg)
Matthew Desmond
![Nathan Hill](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Hill-1.jpg)
Nathan Hill
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Alice-Hoffman.jpg)
Alice Hoffman
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Christina-Baker-Kline.jpg)
Christina Baker Kline
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Candice-Millard.jpg)
Candice Millard
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MLP.jpg)
Mary Louise Parker
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ann-Patchett.jpg)
Ann Patchett
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ProulxAnnie-sml-1.jpg)
Annie Proulx
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/David-Sibley.jpg)
David Sibley
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Toobin.jpg)
Jeffrey Toobin
![Amor Towles](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Towles.jpg)
Amor Towles
![Scott Turow](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Turrow-1.jpg)
Scott Turow
2015-16
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Margaret-Atwood.jpg)
Margaret Atwood
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Chris-Cleave.jpg)
Chris Cleave
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Celeste-Ng.jpg)
Celeste Ng
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Louise-Penny.jpg)
Louise Penny
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/John-Elder-Robison.jpg)
John Elder Robison
![](https://pittsburghlectures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Hanya-Yanagihara.jpg)