MacArthur Fellow Speakers

These author speakers have been recognized with MacArthur "Genius" Grants for being at the forefront of their chosen fields.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

Ocean Vuong

Poet and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Colson Whitehead

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

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Will Allen

Founder of Growing Power, MacArthur 'Genius' Award winner, and author of The Good Food Revolution

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

Jason De León

Anthropologist, professor, and author of The Land of Open Graves and Soldiers and Kings

Kelly Link

MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow, writer of celebrated short stories and The Book of Love

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