Louis Sachar
Newbery and National Book Award-winning author of Holes
Speakers
Najla Said
Actress, playwright and author of the memoir Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
Ken Segall
Former Ad Agency Creative Director for NeXT and Apple, author of New York Times bestseller Insanely Simple and Think Simple
Gary Shteyngart
New York Times-bestselling author of Little Failure, Super Sad True Love Story, and Absurdistan
Neil Shubin
Evolutionary biologist and discoverer of the "Missing Link," and author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within
Protected: Timothy Snyder
Historian, professor at Yale University and author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom and Our Malady
Jim Sterba
Award-winning journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and author of Nature Wars
T.J. Stiles
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, American historian and author of Custer's Trials
Darin Strauss
Bestselling novelist and author of the acclaimed memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Victoria Sweet
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God's Hotel
Neil Swidey
Award-winning journalist and author of Trapped Under the Sea, and specialist in risk and safety