Writers & Presenters
Below you will find a preliminary list of the SVWC 2019 presenters. Click on each photo to read more. Please check back soon as we will be updating this page with additional photos and bios.
MARTIN AMIS — novelist, essayist, and memoirist; author of The Rub of Time
FRANCIS LAM — food writer and “The Splendid Table” radio show host; author of Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing
MIRIAM PAWEL — journalist and historian; author of The Browns of California
EMILY RUSKOVICH — novelist and creative writing professor; author of Idaho
DANZY SENNA — novelist and essayist; author of New People
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Rick Atkinson
Joanne B. Freeman
Robert Kagan
Min Jin Lee
Mark Leibovich
Barry Lopez
Los Angeles Children's Chorus - Chamber Singers
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Hisham Matar
Alice McDermott
Madeline Miller
Victoria Nuland
Naomi Shihab Nye
Tommy Orange
Simon Rich
Andrew Roberts
John Burnham Schwartz
Brando Skyhorse
Madhuri Vijay
Tara Westover