Bestselling Author Speakers

Some storytellers capture the attention of the nation. These “must-read” author speakers dominate bestseller lists, movie screens, book clubs, and conversations with their blockbusters.

Brit Bennett

Novelist of National Book Award nominated, New York Times-bestselling The Vanishing Half, and National Book Foundation 2016 5 Under 35 Honoree

Jennifer Egan

Author of The Candy House and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad

Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

Michelle Zauner

Frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast and author of New York Times bestselling Crying in H Mart

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Andrea Bartz

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers

Arthur C. Brooks

Harvard professor, PhD social scientist, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestselling People of the Book

Marc Brown

Award-winning and bestselling author of the popular Arthur series

Pierce Brown

Author of New York Times bestselling Red Rising series

Bill Burnett

Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Ken Burns

Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

Ron Chernow

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton

Lee Child

New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree and National Book Award finalist The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Junot Díaz

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

Joseph J. Ellis

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, presidential historian, and author of Founding Brothers and American Dialogue

Dave Evans

Co-founder of Electronic Arts and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Gillian Flynn

Award-winning author of the #1 bestselling novel Gone Girl

Jane Fonda

Award-winning actress, bestselling author of My Life So Far, and fitness expert

Gayle Forman

Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller If I Stay

Dr. Marisa G. Franco

Psychologist, professor, friendship expert, and New York Times-bestselling author of Platonic

Diana Gabaldon

#1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Outlander series

Scott Galloway

Marketing Professor at NYU Stern, bestselling author, serial entrepreneur

Lisa Gardner

#1 New York Times-bestselling crime thriller novelist

Lauren Groff

National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of Fates and Furies and Matrix

Tess Gunty

National Book Award-winning author of The Rabbit Hutch

Yaa Gyasi

Author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom, and recipient of the National Book Foundation's 'Under 35' award

Charlaine Harris

New York Times-bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, the basis for the hit HBO series True Blood

Carl Hiaasen

Bestselling novelist, Newbery Honor winner, and former Miami Herald columnist

Jennifer L. Holm

Three-time Newbery Honor-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of Babymouse

Cathy Park Hong

Award-winning poet and New York Times-bestselling author of Minor Feelings

Craig Johnson

New York Times-bestselling author of the Walt Longmire series

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

National Book Award-winning historian and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist

Robert Kolker

Award-winning journalist and instant #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

Mark Kurlansky

New York Times bestselling-author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land

Chang-rae Lee

New York Times-bestselling author of The Surrendered and Native Speaker

E. Lockhart

New York Times-bestselling author of We Were Liars and inventor of DC Comics superhero Whistle

Yann Martel

Author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi and New York Times bestseller Beatrice and Virgil

Paula McLain

New York Times-bestselling author of The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, Love and Ruin and When the Stars Go Dark

Chanel Miller

Artist, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Know My Name

Celeste Ng

Author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere

Sigrid Nunez

Author of the 2018 National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller, The Friend

Tommy Orange

Bestselling novelist and author of There There and Wandering Stars

Delia Owens

#1 New York Times-bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing and wildlife scientist

Deb Perelman

Chef, bestselling cookbook author, and creative force behind the popular Smitten Kitchen food blog

Kiley Reid

Author of Come and Get It and instant New York Times-bestseller Such a Fun Age

Louis Sachar

Newbery and National Book Award-winning author of Holes

Marjane Satrapi

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

Jeff Shaara

New York Times-bestselling author of historical and military fiction

Gary Shteyngart

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

Cheryl Strayed

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

Sabaa Tahir

National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes and All My Rage

Jeff Tweedy

Grammy Award-winning musician and frontman of Wilco

Melissa Urban

"The Boundary Lady," New York Times-bestselling author, and Whole30 co-founder

D.J. Vanas

Member of the Ottawa Tribe, author of The Tiny Warrior and host of the PBS special Discovering Your Warrior Spirit

Ocean Vuong

Poet and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Alice Waters

Chef, author, activist, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant and the Edible Schoolyard Project

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

Lawrence Wright

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower and staff writer for The New Yorker

Hanya Yanagihara

Bestselling author of A Little Life and To Paradise and editor in chief of T

Nicola Yoon

#1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist

Charles Yu

National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown

Gabrielle Zevin

New York Times-bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Markus Zusak

#1 New York Times- bestselling author of The Book Thief