Speakers

MacArthur Fellow and critically acclaimed Haitian-American writer

Celebrity chef, TV host, and bestselling author

Co-founder of Planet Money, award-winning journalist, and author of The Passion Economy

Legal expert and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Nixon Defense

Expert on African-American history and author of Black Quotidian and Half American

Author of New York Times bestsellers The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her; winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Author of finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award In the Distance and Booker Prize-nominated Trust

Author of the National Book Award longlisted title: Lifting as We Climb

Journalist and award-winning author of Patient H.M.

Random House copy chief and author of Dreyer's English

Award-winning science and technology journalist and bestselling author of Talking to Robots

Author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

Author of New York Times bestsellers The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her; winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Celebrity chef, TV host, and bestselling author