KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Award-Winning Science Fiction Author, Known for "Story of Your Life" and "Exhalation"

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

Legendary Children's Horror Author & Storyteller; Creator of "Goosebumps" & "Fear Street"; Guinness World Record Best-Selling Author

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Longmire" Series

Acclaimed Contemporary Fiction Author & Literary Innovator; Pulitzer Prize Winner; Professor & Founding Director, Rutgers-Newark MFA

Six-Time Emmy Award Winner; Children's Book Author & Creator of the "Arthur" Book & PBS TV Series; Advocate for Children's Literacy

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

Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Novelist & Bestselling Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "Mindhunter"

New York Times Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Children's Musician & Original Author of the "Pete the Cat" Series

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for the "Jack Reacher" Series

Bestselling Young Adult Fiction Author; Known for "The Ascendance Trilogy"

Bestselling Crime & Thriller Author; Founder of Save the Libraries; Known for "Pieces of Her" & the Will Trent Series

Contemporary Crime & Supernatural Fiction Author, Known for "The Ridge" & "An Honest Man"

Former Journalist, Folksinger, Attorney & International No. 1 Bestselling Author

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Novelist & Short-Story Writer Exploring Identity, Gender, and the Immigrant Experience; Known for "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

New York Times Bestselling Mystery & Thriller Author; Former Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan

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