College + University Speakers

Engaging today with the world-changers of tomorrow, our college and university author speakers inspire students and faculty to foster dialogue on topics as diverse as the campuses they visit.

Isabel Wilkerson

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

Javier Zamora

Memoirist, poet, and author of Solito, and a winner of the 2023 American Book Award.

Michelle Zauner

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

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Jennifer Ackerman

Award-winning science writer, author of The Genius of Birds and What an Owl Knows

Yoni Appelbaum

Historian, deputy executive editor The Atlantic, and author of Stuck

Adam Benforado

New York Times bestselling author of A Minor Revolution and Unfair

Brit Bennett

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

Dr. Uché Blackstock

Founder and Chief Advisor of Advancing Health Equity, emergency physician, and New York Times-bestselling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Cat Bohannon

Researcher and New York Times bestselling author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Author of the bestselling memoir She's Not There, President of PEN America, and celebrated LGBTQ activist

Porter Braswell

Executive Chairman and co-founder of Jopwell and author of Let Them See You

Arthur C. Brooks

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

Bill Burnett

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

Francisco Cantú

Author of the bestselling memoir The Line Becomes a River and former US Border Patrol Agent

John Carreyrou

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

Casey Cep

New York Times bestselling author of Furious Hours and New Yorker staff writer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Vinson Cunningham

Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer and theatre critic at The New Yorker, author

Hernan Diaz

Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust and In the Distance

Kathleen DuVal

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor, and author of Native Nations

David Ewing Duncan

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

Jennifer Egan

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

Jay Ellis

NAACP Image Award-winning actor, director, producer, and author of Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?

June Eric-Udorie

Feminist activist, Editor of Can We All Be Feminists? and DEI Programme Manager for Flexa

Dave Evans

Co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Percival Everett

Author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel James

Dr. Sheri Fink

Pulitzer Prize-winning medical journalist and author of Five Days at Memorial, M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford

Angus Fletcher

Professor of story science and author of Primal Intelligence (August 2025)

Franklin Foer

National correspondent for The Atlantic, New America Foundation fellow, and former editor of The New Republic

Jamie Ford

New York Times-bestselling author and book club favorite

Jasmin Graham

Shark Scientist, environmental educator, and President/CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS)

Paul Greenberg

James Beard Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood

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

Hahrie Han

Political scientist, Director of SNF Agora Institute, and leading expert on social movements

Dr. Mona Hanna

Physician, scientist and activist who exposed the Flint water crisis

Dr. Michele Harper

Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking

Prentis Hemphill

Bestselling author, political organizer, founder and director of The Embodiment Institute

Kristin Henning

Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author of The Rage of Innocence

Carl Hiaasen

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

Cathy Park Hong

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

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

Phil Klay

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and author of Redeployment, winner of 2014 National Book Award for Fiction

Robert Kolker

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

Jean Kwok

Award-winning author of Girl in Translation

Lachi

Award-winning recording artist, disability rights activist, and CEO/Founder of RAMPD

Amanda Lucidon

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Drew Magary

Author of The Postmortal, The Hike, and Someone Could Get Hurt

Rebecca Makkai

Author of Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Great Believers and I Have Some Questions for You

Ian Manuel

Advocate for criminal justice reform, poet, and motivational speaker

Lauren Markham

Journalist and author of The Far Away Brothers and A Map of Future Ruins

Sarah McBride

U.S. Representative for the State of Delaware and LGBTQAI+ activist

Dinaw Mengestu

Named one of The New Yorker "20 Under 40" writers to watch and author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air

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

Beth Nguyen

Author of Pioneer Girl, Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls

Jenny Nordberg

Award-winning investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and author of The Underground Girls of Kabul

Sigrid Nunez

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

Jenny Odell

New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time

Tommy Orange

Bestselling novelist and author of There There and Wandering Stars

Kiley Reid

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

Jerry Saltz

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York magazine

Marjane Satrapi

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

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

Dani Shapiro

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

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

Tourmaline

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, author of Marsha

Dr. Vint Virga

Distinguished veterinary practitioner and animal behaviorist, and author of The Soul of All Living Creatures

Hadley Vlahos

Hospice nurse, palliative care advocate, author of New York Times bestseller The In-Between

Ocean Vuong

MacArthur Fellow and New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Oprah's Book Club pick The Emperor of Gladness

Colson Whitehead

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

Lawrence Wright

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

Charles Yu

National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown

Gabrielle Zevin

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