Past Authors & Speakers

Stimulating the minds and nurturing the souls of readers.

Main Tent Speakers

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Isabel Allende
Dave Barry
Tom Brokaw
David Brooks
Bill Browder
Bill Browder
Daniel James Brown
Frank Brown
Billy Collins
Billy Collins
Wade Davis
Dr. David Eagleman
Nikki Erlick
James and Deborah Fallows
Danielle Feinberg
Danielle Feinberg
Niall Ferguson
Chris Gardner
Bonnie Garmus
John Hering
Anthony Ray Hinton
Philip K. Howard
Tom Ikeda
Walter Isaacson
Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Captain Scott Kelly
Steven E. Koonin, PhD
Stephen Kotkin
Jaron Lanier
Erik Larson
Ada Limón
H.R. McMaster
Roger McNamee
Bill Milliken
Mary Roach
David M. Rubenstein
Lisa See
Desmond Shum
Tracy K. Smith
Bret Stephens
Rick Stevenson
Amy Tan
Dr. Eric Topol
Amor Towles
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Abraham Verghese
Hugo Vickers
Jesmyn Ward
Bari Weiss
Simon Winchester, O.B.E.
Amy Zagart
Amy Zegart

Breakout Session Speakers

Akbar Ahmed
Dr. Euan Ashley
Jamie Bernstein
Joan Boothe
Douglas Brinkley
John Briscoe
Louann Brizendine
Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown
Tim Brown
Charina Chou, Ph.D.
David Crane
Alison R. Crowther
Esi Edugyan
Lukman Faily
Lisa Fenn
Sally Fernandez
Alex Filippenko
Chris Flink
Craig Frazier
Francis Fukuyama, Ph.D.
Don George
J. Douglas Holladay
Doug Holladay
Pedro Irazoqui, Ph.D.
Steven Johnson
Victoria Kastner
Soyoung Lee
H.H. Leonards
Elisa Stancil Levine
Gordon Lithgow, Ph.D.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
John Markoff
Mack McCarter
Michael McFaul
John McReynolds
Cade Metz
Tripp Mickle
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn
Mark Mills
Alana Nichols
Caitlin O’Connell, Ph.D.
R.J. Palacio
Nicole Perlroth
Bill Petrocelli
Steven Pifer
Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner
Dr. Ramon Resa
Richard Rhodes
Tom Rinaldi
Joseph Rodota
Daniel Rodriguez
Luis J. Rodriguez
Rebecca Rosenberg
Darcey Rosenblatt
Dan Russell, PhD
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff
John Burnham Schwartz
Erich Schwartzel
Michael Shellenberger
Julia Flynn Siler
Julia Flynn Siler
Dr. Gary Small
Anne Snyder
Claire Spafford
James Strock
Philip Taubman
Deepa Thomas
Trudi Trueit
Les Vadasz
Jose Antonio Vargas
Matthew Walker
Justin Wangler and Tracey Shepos Cemani
Wells Whitney, Sc.D.
Dr. R. Sanders Williams
James Woods
Omar Yaghi
Charles E. Young, Ph.D.
Andrew Zaldivar, Ph.D.

Masters of Ceremonies

Noah Griffin
Laura Zimmerman

Virtual Festival Speakers

Jordan Blashek & Chris Haugh
Robert Franklin
Adam Hochschild
Hawk Koch
Mac McQuown
Naomi Shihab Nye
Colin O’Brady
Jeffrey Rosen
Robert Theleen
Andy Weinberger
Damon West

Legend

Students Day Speaker