KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Author of the Bestselling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series; Creator of "The Summer I Turned Pretty" Television Series

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"; Authority in Historical Fiction

New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "The Radium Girls" & "The Woman They Could Not Silence"

Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

Award-Winning, Multiple Bestselling Author; Known for "Postmortem" & the Kay Scarpetta Series; Forensic Thriller & Crime Novelist

Perennial Bestselling Author & Voice of Contemporary American Literature

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Red, White & Royal Blue"

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for the "Jack Reacher" Series

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Transcultural Novels & Memoirs

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Award-Winning Author, Known for "Here Comes the Sun" & "Patsy"

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Heft," "The Unseen World," "Long Bright River" & "The God of the Woods"; Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Temple University

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "Puddin',"Dumplin'" & "Side Effects May Vary"

Literacy Advocate, Author & Actor Known for "Roots," "Star Trek" & "Reading Rainbow"

Bestselling & Newberry Honor Author; Known for "Echo," "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Award-Winning Entrepreneur; "Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Former NFL Football Player; Vietnam Veteran & Purple Heart Recipient; Inspiring Veteran's Advocate