Past Presenters

2023

Akhtar, Ayad
Applebaum, Anne
Barry, Dave
Barton, Jake
Boal, Peter
Crapanzano, Aleksandra
Diaz, Hernan
Elliott, Andrea
Escoffery, Jonathan
Grann, David
Hamid, Mohsin
Hinojosa, Maria
Homans, Jennifer
Hunt, Albert R.
Kagan, Robert
Kaufman, Michelle
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Klein, Ezra
Lowrie, Annie
Mandel, Emily St. John
Mathews, Sarah Thankham
McDonell, Terry
Osnos, Evan
Perry, Imani
Petri, Alexandra
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Smith, Tracy K.
Verghese, Abraham
Wilson, Laura
Woodruff, Judy
Yong, Ed
Zamora, Javier

2022

Ascher, Barbara Lazear
Berg, A. Scott
Brooks, Arthur C.
Brown, Jeffrey
Doerr, Anthony
Donner, Rebecca
Dove, Rita
Dyer, Geoff
Fajardo-Anstine, Kali
Feldman, Noah
Freeman, Judith
Freestyle Love Supreme+
Groff, Lauren
Hunt, Albert R.
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Kotkin, Stephen
Lemoine, Sanae
Maksik, Alexander
Mallaby, Sebastian
Mbue, Imbolo
Mcghee, Heather
Mounk, Yascha
Osnos, Evan
Pesky, Alan
Pickhart, Kalani
Rhodes, Ben
Schulz, Kathryn
Schwartzel, Erich
Stavridis, Admiral James
Trethewey, Natasha
Vuong, Ocean
Woodruff, Judy

2021

Ackerman, Elliot
Ahamed, Meenakshi
Akhtar, Ayad
Allende, Isabel
Blanco, Richard
Broom, Sarah M.
Brown, Daniel James
Brown, Jeffrey
Carpenter, Lea
Cohan, William D.
Diamond, Larry
Dumas, Firoozeh
Eagleman, David
Feldman, Noah
Fink, Sheri
Ikeda, Tom
Isham, Christopher
Jones, Tayari
Kaplan, Mitchell
Katz, Catherine Grace
Lithgow, John
Orlean, Susan
Owens, Delia
Packer, George
Phillips, Julia
Secor, Laura
Sentilles, Sarah
Stavridis, Admiral James
Stewart, Alison
Wallace-Wells, David
Wolff, Tobias
Wright, Lawrence

2019

Akhtar, Ayad
Amis, Martin
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Atkinson, Rick
Brown, Jeffrey
Eggers, Dave
Freeman, Joanne B.
Hiaasen, Carl
Kagan, Robert
Chamber Singers of the Los Angeles
Children’s Chorus (LACC)
Lam, Francis
Landrieu, Mitch
Lee, Min Jin
Leibovich, Mark
Lopez, Barry
Lythcott-Haims, Julie
McDermott, Alice
Miller, Madeline
Mock, Freida Lee
Nuland, Victoria
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Orange, Tommy
Pawel, Miriam
Proctor, Andrew
Rich, Simon
Roberts, Andrew
Ruskovich, Emily
Schwartz, John Burnham
Senna, Danzy
Shapiro, Dani
Skyhorse, Brando
Talbott, Strobe
Verghese, Abraham
Vida, Vendela
Vijay, Madhuri

2018

Auletta, Ken
Berg, A. Scott
Breyer, Dr. Joanna
Breyer, Justice Stephen
Brown, Jeffrey
Coll, Steve
Crouse, Karen
Crump, Catherine
Danticat, Edwidge
Davis, Wade
Donovan, Shaun
Fallows, Deborah
Fallows, James
Friedman, Ann B.
Friedman, Thomas L.
Gang, Jeanne
Gerritsen, Tess
Griswold, Eliza
Hayes, Terrance
Johnson, Adam
Mahajan, Karan
Mekhennet, Souad
Meloy, Maile
Mousavizadeh, Nader
Ondaatje, Michael
Rachlis, Kit
Salzman, Mark
The Improvised Shakespeare Company (ISC)
Shamsie, Kamila
Slovo, Gillian
Spalding, Linda
Stretch, Colin
Tanenhaus, Sam
Urban, Amanda
Winchester, Simon
Yang, Gene Luen
Yu, Jessica
Zakaria, Fareed

2017

Addario, Lynsey
Ahamed, Liaquat
Ayad, Akhtar
Barry, Dave
Berg, A. Scott
Bose, Rajesh
Brooks, David
Brown, Jeffrey
Collins, Billy
Crapanzano, Aleksandra
Donohue, Laura K.
Famiglietti, Jay
Groff, Lauren
Hochschild, Adam
Hochschild, Arlie Russell
Johnson, Craig
Klay, Phil
Macdonald, Helen
Malouf, Nadine
Marton, Kati
Mayer, Jane
Mbue, Imbolo
Miller, Dr. BJ
Salzman, Mark
Semple, Maria
Smith, Sally Bedell
Solomon, Andrew
Stone, Brad
Talbott, Strobe
Thomas, Evan
Thomas, Louisa
Toobin, Jeffrey
Verghese, Abraham
Whitehead, Colson
Wink, Callan

2016

Barron, David
Benioff, David
Berns, Gregory
Bingham, Clara
Breyer, Justice Stephen
Brown, Jeffrey
Canin, Ethan
Casey, Susan
Conan, Neal
Corrigan, Maureen
Donnelly, Terry
Donohue, Gabriel
Dumas, Firoozeh
Eagleman, David
Enright, Anne
Freeman, Judith
Gourevitch, Philip
Harrington, Gregory
Haskell, Arlo
Hoffman, David
Kayem, Juliette
Kincaid, Jamaica
Larson, Erik
MacFarquhar, Larissa
Maksik, Alexander
Maraniss, David
Marx, Patricia
McClintock, James B.
McGuane, Thomas
Miliband, David
Myers, Steven Lee
O’Reilly, Ciaran
Robinson, Walter V.
Rushdie, Salman
Sheehan, Ciaran
Stevenson, Bryan
Talbott, Strobe
Tobar, Hector
Verghese, Abraham
Watkins, Claire Vaye
Weiss, D.B.

2015

Bergen, Peter
Bialosky, Jill
Brown, Jeffrey
Canin, Ethan
Carey, Anne
Cohan, William D.
Conan, Neal
Dalrymple, William
Doerr, Anthony
Edge, John T.
Fink, Sheri
Ford, Richard
Fuller, Alexandra
Gates, Robert M.
Hatcher, Jeffrey
Kaplan, Eduardo
Koenig, Sarah
Macy, Beth
McBride, James
Mengestu, Dinaw
Morrison, Patt
Norris, Mary
Paulson, Henry M.
Paulson, Wendy
Roach, Mary
Salzman, Mark
Schiff, Stacy
Sides, Hampton
Simpson, Mona
Talbott, Strobe
Trethewey, Natasha
Warner, Margaret
Wright, Lawrence
Zabriskie, Philip

2014

Barry, Dave
Berg, A. Scott
Breyer, Justice Stephen
Brown, Daniel James
Cahill, Thomas
Hill, Christopher
Doerries, Bryan
Ehrlich, Gretel
Elizondo, Hector
Epstein, David
Geithner, Timothy
Gottschall, Jonathan
Hirsch,Edward
Johnston, Bret Anthony
Lewis, John
Li, Yiyun
MacMillan, Margaret
Maksik, Alexander
Marra, Anthony
O’Byrne, Brian
Pearson, Ridley
Salzman, Mark
Shapiro, James
Shavit, Ari
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Strathairn, David
Talbott, Strobe
Turow, Scott
Verghese, Abraham
Winchester, Simon
Yu, Jessica

2012

Ahamed, Liaquat
Barry, Sebastian
Brokaw, Tom
Fallows, Deborah
Fallows, James
Fallows, James
Fuller, Alexandra
Gitnick, Dr. Gary
Gwynne, S.C.
Harbach, Chad
Hendrickson, Paul
Hill, Christopher
Homans, Jennifer
Isaacson, Walter
Kogan, Deborah
Merwin, W.S.
Salzman, Mark
Sauter, Van Gordon
Shihab Nye, Naomi
Star, Alex
Talbott, Strobe
Vaillant, John
Verghese, Abraham
Waldman, Amy
Wilson, E.O.
Wright, James
Wright, Nye

2011

Atkinson, Rick
Brandt, Charles
Brooks, David
Brown, Angela
Grossman, David
Hill, Christopher
Maksik, Alexander
Maloney, Suzanne
Marton, Kati
McCann, Colum
McCullough, Rohan
Merwin, W.S.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Reilly, Rick
Ryan, Kay
Salzman, Mark
Sauter, Van Gordon
Schwartz, John Burnham
Stockett, Kathryn
Talbott, Strobe
Trillin, Calvin
Wald, Richard C.
Wilkerson, Isabel

2010

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Beah, Ishmael
Breyer, Justice Stephen
Carr, Greg
Esquith, Rafe
Ferguson, Niall
Friedman, Jane
Hobart Shakespeareans, The
Holdengräber, Paul
Horowitz, Alexandra
Iyer, Pico
Kalman, Maira
Karr, Mary
Kennedy, David
Lehane, Dennis
Lithgow, John
Merwin, W.S.
Meyerowitz, Rick
Paulson, Jr., Henry
Phillips, Adam
Phillips, Arthur
Raffin, Deborah
Rosenfeld, Donald
Salzman, Mark
Sauter, Van Gordon
Shea, Ammon
Sternberg, Dr. Esther
Sullivan, KT
Talbott, Strobe
Weber, Jon

2009

Ahamed, Liaquat
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Blount Jr., Roy
Canin, Ethan
Duchin, Peter
Dumas, Firoozeh
Friend, Tad
Gordon-Reed, Annette
Gourevitch, Philip
Gregorian, Vartan
Hesser, Amanda
Jordan, Vernon
Kelly, William
Korelitz, Jean Hanff
Le, Nam
Lindsay, Reed
Macaulay, David
MacFarquhar, Larissa
Maren, Micheal
McEwan, Ian
Merwin, W.S.
Mock, Freida Lee
Moloney, Mick
Morgenson, Gretchen
Morris, Jan
Muldoon, Paul
Pearson, Ridley
Shapiro, Dani
Verghese, Abraham
Zabriskie, Philip

2008

Bloom, Amy
Buruma, Ian
Canin, Ethan
Caro, Ina
Caro, Robert
Chessman, Harriet Scott
Cook, Cristina Ceccatelli
Crapanzano, Aleksandra
Donohue, Laura
Egan, Timothy
Geary, James
Gjelten, Tom
Hiaasen, Carl
Hockenberry, John
Holbrooke, Richard
Hotta, Eri
Hunt, Patrick
Kalman, Maira
Kooser, Ted
Lehrer, Jonah
Manguel, Alberto
Marton, Kati
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Packer, George
Raddtz, Martha
Salzman, Mark
Sanders, Terry
Schwartz, John Burnham
Stegner, Page
Stoddard, Brandon
Tharoor, Dr. Shashi
Watters, Ethan

2006

Audouard, Antoine
Barron, David
Breyer, Associate Justice Stephen
Breyer, Reverend Chloe
Brookhiser, Richard
Chen, Da
Chen, Da
Chen, Sunny
Collins, Billy
Dunlap, William
Felstiner, John
Felstiner, Mary
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Goodwin, Richard
Hessler, Peter
Jamieson, Adrienne
Johnson, Haynes
Kayyem, Juliette
Kidd, Chip
Lamott, Anne
Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble of New Orleans
Marshall, Tyler
McClatchy, J.D.
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Moore, Susanna
Mousavizadeh, Nader
Norman, Howard
Parker-Bass, Harriet
Pesky, Alan
Plumly, Stanley
Roberts, Cokie
Roberts, Steve
Salzman, Mark
Schwartz, John Burnham
Shapiro, James
Starr, Frederick
Stevens, Mark
Stoddard, Brandon
Swan, Annalyn
Talbott, Strobe
Talese, Gay with
Talese, Nan
West, Adam
Yu, Jessica

2005

Albom, Mitch
Arvin, Nick
Barry, Dave
Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson
Bejan, Adrian
Blacker, Coit D.
Brandt, Charles
Brown, Angela with Joseph Joubert
Cahill, Jason
Cahill, Thomas
Caro, Ina
Chabon, Michael
Collins, Billy
Cook, Cristina Ceccatelli
Dumas, Firoozeh
Dutton, Douglas
Fleming, Karl
Gurney, A.R. “Pete”
Hunt, Patrick
Iles, Greg
Joubert, Joseph
Keneally, Thomas
Macaulay, David
MacNeil, Robert
McCourt, Frank
McKinzie, Clinton
Merwin, W.S.
Pearson, Ridley
Rock Bottom Remainders (Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Greg Iles, Frank McCourt, Ridley Pearson, Amy Tan)
Salzman, Mark
Schnabel, Ambassador Rockwell
Schwartz, John Burnham
Stahr, Walter
Stoddard, Brandon
Talese, Nan
Tan, Amy
Waldman, Ayelet
Zelikow, Philip

2004

Albom, Mitch
Barron, David
Bogas, Roy and Stuart Canin
Campbell, Carolee
Canin, Ethan
Canin, Stuart
Crapanzano, Vincent
Damasio, Antonio
Dumas, Firoozeh
Elizondo, Hector
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Halberstam, David
Hirsch, Edward
Kayyem, Juliette
Kennedy, Donald
Kramer, Jane
Lamott, Anne
Mantle, Larry
Matthiessen, Peter
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Mroz, John
Nafisi, Azar
Power, Samantha
Quindlen, Anna
Salzman, Mark
Sebold, Alice
Smith, Alexander McCall
Smith, Anna Deavere
Talese, Gay
Walker, Diana
Weschler, Lawrence
Yu, Jessica
Zabriskie, Philip

2003

Albom, Mitch
Armstrong, Kit
Bellows, James
Breytenbach, Breyten
Cahill, Thomas
Carle, Eric
Conover, Ted
Damasio, Dr. Antonio
Dennys, Louise
Dutcher, Jim and Jamie
Farmer, Paul
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Freeman, Judith
Halberstam, David
Hijuelos, Oscar
Johnston, Bret Anthony
Kerr, Ann
Kidder, Tracy
Kittredge, William
Lamott, Anne
Lethem, Jonathan
Lithgow, John
Lord, Sterling
Loya, Joe
Mantle, Larry
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Mosley, Walter
Mroz, John
Murphy, Caryle
O’Connor, Justice Sandra Day
Olds, Sharon
Pearson, Ridley
Salzman, Mark
Shaffer, Sir Peter
Stoddard, Brandon
Verghese, Abraham

2002

Albom, Mitch
Baitz, Jon Robin
Barry, Dave
Bellows, James
Campbell, Carolee
Canin, Ethan
Damasio, Antonio
Damasio, Hanna
Ehrlich, Gretel
Elizondo, Hector
Freeman, Judith
Halberstam, David
Hamilton, Jane
Hunt, Gary
Ioudenitch, Stanislav
Kapuschinski, Ryszard
Kennedy, William
Kinder, Gary
Lamott, Anne
McCourt, Frank
McCullough, David
Merwin, W.S.
Mock, Freida Lee
Moosa, Ebrahim
Pearson, Ridley
Pinsky, Robert
Sanders, Jessica
Schwartz, John Burnham
Strouse, Jean
Styron, Rose
Styron, William
Talese, Nan
Weschler, Lawrence
Wilkins, Roger
Wright, James

2001

Albom, Mitch
Bezos, Jeff
Buttenwieser, Paul
Campbell, Carolee
Clapp, Nicholas
Damasio, Antonio
Damasio, Hanna
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Fleming, Karl
Halberstam, David
Hamilton-Merritt, Jane
Hochschild, Adam
Hochschild, Arlie Russell
Kennedy, David
Kennedy, William
Kovach, Bill
Krovatin, Gerald
Lamott, Anne
Levine, Philip
Matthiessen, Peter
McCourt, Ellen
McCourt, Frank
Medina, Kate
Merwin, W.S.
Moynihan, Senator Daniel Patrick
Quindlen, Anna
Salzman, Mark
Salzman, Martha
Samuels, Marlene
Schwartz, John Burnham
Stoddard, Brandon
Styron, Rose
Styron, William
Verghese, Abraham
Wald, Richard
Yu, Jessica

2000

Bellows, James
Campbell, Carolee
Canin, Ethan
Carson, Lillian
Doctorow, E.L.
Drake, Scott
Eggers, Dave
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Fleming, Karl
Freeman, Judith
Halberstam, David
Hamilton-Merritt, Jane
Hochschild, Adam
Kinder, Gary
Kovach, Bill
Kovah, Bill
Lamott, Anne
Matthiessen, Peter
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Mock, Freida Lee
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Phillips, Jayne Anne
Quindlen, Anna
Russell, George
Salzman, Mark
Schwartz, John Burnham
Stoddard, Brandon
Sutton, Joe
Unsworth, Barry
Verghese, Abraham
Wald, Richard
Weschler, Lawrence
Yu, Jessica

1999

Albom, Mitch
Alvord, Dr. Lori
Bierds, Linda
Borger, Irene
Bray, Rosemary
Buttenwieser, Paul
Clapp, Nicholas
Crapanzano, Vincent
Doyle, Bob
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Freeman, Judith
Harris, Sister Janet
Holbrooke, Ambassador Richard
Karr, Mary
Kaye, John
Kinder, Gary
Koshalek, Richard
Kramer, Jane
Lamott, Anne
Maksik, Jon
Matthiessen, Peter
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Mock, Freida Lee
Peavey, Diane Josephy
Petitclerc, Denne
Russell, George
Salzman, Mark
Schwartz, John Burnham
Smiley, Jane
Stoddard, Brandon
Stone, Robert
Turco, Mary
Wald, Richard
Weschler, Lawrence
Yu, Jessica

1998

Albom, Mitch
Appel, Richard
Atwood, Margaret
Bellows, James
Bray, Rosemary
Buttenwieser, Paul
Canin, Ethan
Clapp, Nicholas
Diehl, Digby
Ehrlich, Gretel
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Foley, Dr. Kathleen
Gibson, Graeme
Halberstam, David
Jackson, Phil
Karr, Mary
Kennedy, Danielle
Lamott, Anne
Matthiessen, Peter
McCourt, Frank
Merwin, W.S.
Mock, Freida Lee
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Ondaatje, Michael
Pearson, Ridley
Salzman, Mark
Sanders, Terry
Sauter, Van Gordon
Schwartz, John Burnham
Simpson, Mona
Spalding, Linda
Yu, Jessica

1997

Albom, Mitch
Barry, Dave
Bellows, James
Buttenwieser, Paul
Canin, Ethan
Cloud, Stanley
Crapanzano, Aleksandra
Diehl, Digby
Dolan, Mary Anne
Ferris, Timothy
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Freeman, Judith
Hays, Daniel
Hernandez, Tony
King, Stephen
Krasny, Michael
Lamott, Anne
Maksik, Jon
Merwin, W.S.
Mock, Freida Lee
Moore, Lorrie
Morgenstern, Joe
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Olson, Lynne
Salzman, Mark
Schuler, Barbara with Jon Maksik
Schwartz, John Burnham
Simpson, Mona
Spencer, Scott
Stoddard, Brandon
Styron, Rose
Styron, William
Tan, Amy
Welch, James
Welch, Lois
Young, John Sacret
Yu, Jessica

1996

Canin, Ethan
Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson
Dolan, Mary Anne
Dorris, Michael
Ehrlich, Gretel
Freeman, Judith
Kinsella, W. P.
Lamott, Anne
Matthiessen, Peter
Merwin, W.S.
Miles, Jack
Schwartz, John Burnham
Shields, Carol
Tan, Amy

1995 (Inaugural Year)

Bellows, James
Canin, Ethan
Clapp, Nicholas
Diehl, Digby
Dolan, Mary Anne
Dreyfuss, Richard
Ehrlich, Gretel
Fleming, Ann Taylor
Fleming, Karl
Halberstam, David
Kinsella, W. P.
Mock, Freida Lee
Pearson, Ridley
Peavey, Diane Josephy
Salzman, Mark
Sauter, Van Gordon
Stoddard, Brandon
Tooley, Reva
Willis, Bruce
Young, John Sacret
Yu, Jessica

Full Alphabetical List

 

Lynsey Addario

Liaquat Ahamed

Ayad Akhtar

Mitch Albom

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Lori Alvord

Martin Amis

Richard Appel

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kit Armstrong

Nick Arvin

Rick Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

Antoine Audouard

Ken Auletta

Andrew Aydin

Jon Robin Baitz

David Barron

Dave Barry

Sebastian Barry

Ishmael Beah

Adrian Bejan

James Bellows

David Benioff

A. Scott Berg

Peter Bergen

Gregory Berns

Jeffrey Bezos

Jill Bialosky

Linda Bierds

Clara Bingham

Coit D. Blacker

Amy Bloom

Roy Blount, Jr.

Roy Bogas

Irene Borger

Rajesh Bose

Charles Brandt

Rosemary Bray

Chloe Breyer

Dr. Joanna Breyer

Justice Stephen Breyer

Breyten Breytenbach

Tom Brokaw

Richard Brookhiser

David Brooks

Angela M. Brown

Daniel James Brown

Jeffrey Brown

Kathleen Brown

Ian Buruma

Paul Buttenwieser

Jason Cahill

Thomas Cahill

Carolee Campbell

Barbara Schuler Canin

Ethan Canin

Stuart Canin

Anne Carey

Eric Carle

Ina Caro

Robert A. Caro

Greg Carr

Lillian Carson

Pablo Cartaya

Susan Casey

Michael Chabon

Russell Chatham

Da Chen

Sunny Chen

Harriet Scott Chessman

Nicholas Clapp

Erica Clark

Stanley Cloud

William D. Cohan

Steve Coll

Billy Collins

Neal Conan

Ted Conover

Cristina Ceccatelli Cook

Deborah Copaken

Maureen Corrigan

Aleksandra Crapanzano

Vincent Crapanzano

Karen Crouse

Catherine Crump

William Dalrymple

Antonio Damasio

Hanna Damasio

Edwidge Danticat

Wade Davis

Louise Dennys

Digby Diehl

E. L. Doctorow

Anthony Doerr

Bryan Doerries

Mary Anne Dolan

Gabriel Donohue

Laura K. Donohue

Shaun Donovan

Terry Donnelly

Michael Dorris

Bob Doyle

Richard Dreyfuss

Peter Duchin

Firoozeh Dumas

William Dunlap

Jamie Dutcher

Jim Dutcher

Douglas Dutton

David Eagleman

John T. Edge

Timothy Egan

Dave Eggers

Gretel Ehrlich

Hector Elizondo

Anne Enright

David Epstein

Rafe Esquith

Deborah Fallows

James Fallows

Jay Famiglietti

Paul Farmer

John Felstiner

Mary Felstiner

Niall Ferguson

Timothy Ferris

Sheri Fink

Anne Taylor Fleming

Karl Fleming

Kathleen Foley

Richard Ford

Joanne B. Freeman

Judith Freeman

Ann B. Friedman

Jane Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman

Tad Friend

Alexandra Fuller

Jeanne Gang

Gerald Gardner

Robert M. Gates

James Geary

Timothy Geithner

Tess Gerritsen

Graeme Gibson

Dr. Gary Gitnick

Tom Gjelten

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Richard Goodwin

Annette Gordon-Reed

Jonathan Gottschall

Philip Gourevitch

Vartan Gregorian

Eliza Griswold

Lauren Groff

David Grossman

A. R. “Pete” Gurney

S. C. “Sam” Gwynne

David Halberstam

Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton-Merritt

Chad Harbach

Gregory Harrington

Sister Janet Harris

Arlo Haskell

Jeffrey Hatcher

Terrance Hayes

Daniel Hays

Paul Hendrickson

Tony Hernandez

Greg Hess

Amanda Hesser

Peter Hessler

Carl Hiaasen

Oscar Hijuelos

Amb. Christopher Hill

Edward Hirsch

Adam Hochschild

Arlie Russell Hochschild

John Hockenberry

David E. Hoffman

Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke

Jennifer Homans

Alexandra Horowitz

Eri Hotta

Gary Hunt

Patrick Hunt

Greg Iles

The Improvised Shakespeare Company

Stanislav Ioudenitch

Maxine Isaacs

Walter Isaacson

Pico Iyer

Phil Jackson

Adrienne Jamieson

Adam Johnson

Craig Johnson

Haynes Johnson

Bret Anthony Johnston

Vernon Jordan, Jr.

Robert Kagan

Maira Kalman

Eduardo Kaplan

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Mary Karr

John Kaye

Juliette N. Kayyem

William Kelly

Thomas Keneally

Danielle Kennedy

David M. Kennedy

Donald Kennedy

William Kennedy

Ann Kerr

Chip Kidd

Tracy Kidder

Jamaica Kincaid

Gary Kinder

Stephen King

W. P. Kinsella

William Kittredge

Phil Klay

Sarah Koenig

Ted Kooser

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Richard Koshalek

Bill Kovach

Jane Kramer

Michael Krasny

Gerald Krovatin

 

 

Francis Lam

Anne Lamott

Mitch Landrieu

Erik Larson

Nam Le

Min Jin Lee

Dennis Lehane

Jonah Lehrer

Mark Leibovich

Jonathan Lethem

Philip Levine

Congressman John Lewis

Yiyun Li

Reed Lindsay

John Lithgow

Barry Lopez

Sterling Lord

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus – Chamber Singers

Joe Loya

Julie Lythcott-Haims

David Macaulay

Helen Macdonald

Larissa MacFarquhar

Margaret MacMillan

Robert MacNeil

Beth Macy

Karan Mahajan

Alexander Maksik

Jon Maksik

Suzanne Maloney

Nadine Malouf

Alberto Manguel

Larry Mantle

David Maraniss

Michael Maren

Anthony Marra

Tyler Marshall

Kati Marton

Patricia Marx

Peter Matthiessen

Jane Mayer

Imbolo Mbue

James McBride

Colum McCann

J. D. McClatchy

James B. McClintock

Ellen Frey McCourt

Frank McCourt

David McCullough

Rohan McCullough

Alice McDermott

Ian McEwan

Thomas McGuane

Clinton McKinzie

Kate Medina

Souad Mekhennet

Maile Meloy

Dinaw Mengestu

W. S. Merwin

Rick Meyerowitz

John “Jack” Miles

David Miliband

BJ Miller

Madeline Miller

Freida Lee Mock

Mick Moloney

Lorrie Moore

Susanna Moore

Ebrahim Moosa

Gretchen Morgenson

Joe Morgenstern

Jan Morris

Patt Morrison

Walter Mosley

Nader Mousavizadeh

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

John Mroz

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Paul Muldoon

Caryle Murphy

Steven Lee Myers

Azar Nafisi

Howard Norman

Mary Norris

Victoria Nuland

Naomi Shihab Nye

Brían F. O’Byrne

Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor

Ciarán O’Reilly

Sharon Olds

Lynne Olson

Michael Ondaatje

Tommy Orange

Jeff Orlowski

George Packer

Harriet Parker-Bass

Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

Wendy Paulson

Miriam Pawel

Elise Pearlstein

Ridley Pearson

Diane Josephy Peavey

Alan Pesky

Adam Phillips

Arthur Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips

Robert Pinsky

Stanley Plumly

Bob Poole

Samantha Power

Andrew Proctor

Anna Quindlen

Kit Rachlis

Martha Raddatz

Deborah Raffin

Rick Reilly

Simon Rich

Mary Roach

Andrew Roberts

Cokie Roberts

Steve Roberts

Walter V. Robinson

Donald Rosenfeld

Salman Rushdie

Emily Ruskovich

George Russell, Jr.

Kay Ryan

Mark Salzman

Martha Salzman

Marlene Samuels

Jessica Sanders

Terry Sanders

Van Gordon Sauter

Stacy Schiff

Amb. Rockwell Schnabel

John Burnham Schwartz

Jane Wooster Scott

Alice Sebold

Maria Semple

Danzy Senna

Sir Peter Shaffer

Kamila Shamsie

Dani Shapiro

James Shapiro

Ari Shavit

Ammon Shea

Ciarán Sheehan

Carol Shields

Hampton Sides

Mona Simpson

Curtis Sittenfeld

Brando Skyhorse

Gillian Slovo

Jane Smiley

Sally Bedell Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Andrew Solomon

Linda Spalding

Scott Spencer

Walter Stahr

Alexander Star

S. Frederick Starr

Page Stegner

Dr. Esther M. Sternberg

Mark Stevens

Bryan Stevenson

Kathryn Stockett

Brandon Stoddard

Brad Stone

Robert Stone

David Strathairn

Colin Stretch

Jean Strouse

Rose Styron

William Styron

KT Sullivan

Joe Sutton

Annalyn Swan

Blaine Swen

Strobe Talbott

Gay Talese

Nan Talese

Amy Tan

Sam Tanenhaus

Shashi Tharoor

Evan Thomas

Louisa Thomas

Héctor Tobar

Jeffrey Toobin

Natasha Trethewey

Calvin Trillin

Mary Turco

Scott Turow

Barry Unsworth

Amanda “Binky” Urban

John Vaillant

Abraham Verghese

Vendela Vida

Madhuri Vijay

Richard C. Wald

Amy Waldman

Ayelet Waldman

Diana Walker

Margaret Warner

Claire Vaye Watkins

Ethan Watters

D. B. Weiss

James Welch

Lois Welch

Lawrence Weschler

Adam West

Colson Whitehead

Isabel Wilkerson

Roger Wilkins

Bruce Willis

Edward O. Wilson

Simon Winchester

Callan Wink

Aneurin “Nye” Wright

James Wright

Lawrence Wright

Gene Luen Yang

John Sacret Young

Jessica Yu

Fareed Zakaria

Phil Zabriskie

Philip Zelikow

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