Writers & Presenters
Below you will find a preliminary list of the SVWC 2019 presenters. Please check back soon as we will be updating this page with photos and full bios.
MARTIN AMIS — novelist, essayist, and memoirist
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH — philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist
RICK ATKINSON — Pulitzer Prize-winning author and military historian
JOANNE FREEMAN — author and historian
ROBERT KAGAN — author and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow
FRANCIS LAM — food writer and “The Splendid Table” radio show host
MIN JIN LEE — novelist and Guggenheim Fellow
MARK LEIBOVICH — author and New York Times Magazine Chief National Correspondent
BARRY LOPEZ — essayist, novelist, and short-story writer
LOS ANGELES CHILDREN’S CHORUS — chamber choir
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS — memoirist, author, and poet
HISHAM MATAR — Pulitzer Prize-winning author and essayist
ALICE MCDERMOTT — National Book Award-winning novelist
MADELINE MILLER — novelist and essayist
VICTORIA NULAND — political strategist and former U.S. State Department official
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE — poet, songwriter, and novelist
TOMMY ORANGE — Native American novelist and National Book Award finalist
MIRIAM PAWEL — journalist and historian
SIMON RICH — humorist, novelist, and screenwriter
ANDREW ROBERTS — biographer, historian, and journalist
JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ — novelist and screenwriter
BRANDO SKYHORSE — novelist and memoirist
MADHURI VIJAY — novelist and 2016 SVWC Fellow
TARA WESTOVER — memoirist