KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Legendary Profiler & FBI Investigative Support Unit Founder

Best-Selling Author & Journalist

Professor of Criminology, Forensic Expert & Author of "Serial Murderers and their Victims"

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Award-Winning Documentarian, Journalist, Broadcaster & Author

NYT Best-Selling Author of "The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury"

Bestselling Author; Known for "All You Can Ever Know" & "A Living Remedy"; Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

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

Award-Winning Novelist, Poet & Children's Book Author; Known for "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"

International Bestselling Author; Known for the "Neal Carey Mysteries"

Canadian Journalist & Author of Mystery Novels; Known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series

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

NYT Best-Selling Author of "Something Borrowed" & "Heart of the Matter"

Writer, Lecturer & Practicing Attorney; Co-Prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

Best-Selling Romance Author, Film Adaptations Creator & Philanthropist

Award-Winning Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; Known for "The Liars' Club"; Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University

New York Times Bestselling Author of a Dozen Novels and Co-founder and Co-host of Friends & Fiction

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