Literary Speakers

Poet, Educator, Publisher & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

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

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Author Known for "Landline," "Attachments," "Fangirl," "Eleanor & Park" & "Carry On"

Former New York Times Reporter & Columnist; Best-Selling Author of "At Home in the World" & "Labor Day"

Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

CEO of Evidence Based Psychology & Author of "Emotional Agility"

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

International Bestselling Novelist & Screenwriter, Known for "The Notebook"

Founder & Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul Book Series, Mega-Entrepreneur, Business Speaker & Devoted Philanthropist

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, Best-Selling Author & Associate Editor at The Washington Post

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Spiritual Life Coach & Host of "Iyanla Fix My Life"

Executive Educator & Coach; Best-Selling Author of "What Got You Here Won’t Get You There"

Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation; Author; Named One of The World's 50 Greatest Leaders

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

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; President of the Jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War; Current Middle East Editor at Newsweek

Poet, Fiction Writer & Professor at Western Michigan University