Speakers

Najla Said

Actress, playwright and author of the memoir Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family

Jerry Saltz

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York magazine

Marjane Satrapi

Academy Award-nominated director, cartoonist, and author of Persepolis

Will Schwalbe

New York Times-bestselling author of We Should Not Be Friends

Ken Segall

Former Ad Agency Creative Director for NeXT and Apple, author of New York Times bestseller Insanely Simple and Think Simple

Shaka Senghor

Author of Letters to the Sons of Society and Writing My Wrongs and leading voice on criminal justice reform

Bo Seo

Two-time world champion debater and author of Good Arguments

Ruta Sepetys

International bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy

Jeff Shaara

New York Times-bestselling author of historical and military fiction

Dani Shapiro

Bestselling author of Hourglass and Inheritance, host of the Family Secrets podcast.

Daniel Sherrell

Environmental advocate and author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

Gary Shteyngart

New York Times-bestselling author of Little Failure, Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and Our County Friends

Neil Shubin

Evolutionary biologist, discoverer of the "Missing Link," and author of Your Inner Fish

Suzanne Simard

Leader of The Mother Tree Project and author of Finding the Mother Tree

Chris Smalls

Labor organizer and president and co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union

Bren Smith

Restorative ocean farmer, co-founder of GreenWave, and author of Eat Like a Fish

T.J. Stiles

Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, American historian, and author of Custer's Trials

Cheryl Strayed

Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and "Dear Sugar" columnist

Elizabeth Strout

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge and New York Times bestsellers My Name is Lucy Barton, Tell Me Everything, and more

Dr. Dana Suskind

Pediatric physician and author of Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain and Parent Nation

Neil Swidey

Award-winning journalist and author of Trapped Under the Sea, and specialist in risk and safety
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau