Novelists Speakers

Award-Winning Actor, Literacy Advocate & Pop Culture Icon; Star of "Roots" & "Star Trek: The Next Generation"; Host of "Reading Rainbow"

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

Mexican Novelist & Literary Critic; Author of "Sudden Death" & "You Dreamed of Empires"; Latin American Literature Professor at Hofstra University

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Environmental Writer; Author of "The Poisonwood Bible" & "Demon Copperhead"

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author, Digital Creator, VidCon Co-Founder & Entrepreneur

Best-Selling Author & Journalist

NYT Bestselling Novelist Known for "Crank"

Best-Selling Romance Author, Film Adaptations Creator & Philanthropist

Emmy-Winning Television Host, Best-Selling Author, Cancer Survivor & Public Speaker

Acclaimed Novelist & Essayist; MacArthur Fellow; Author of "Lost Children Archive"; Bard College Professor

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

Attorney, Statesman & Author; Former Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Assistant Attorney General

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

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

Bestselling Author, Storytelling Coach, Marketing and Communications Consultant & Teacher

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

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

Internationally Acclaimed Iranian Author & Novelist; Author of "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"; Contributor to Slice Magazine

Perennial Bestselling Author & Voice of Contemporary American Literature

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