A selection of SVWC presenters from years past appears below.
Please stay tuned to the website for updates about our presenters for 2021.
SVWC Past Presenters
Be Inspired.

Liaquat Ahamed

Ayad Akhtar

Mitch Albom

Rick Atkinson

Dave Barry

A. Scott Berg

Justice Stephen Breyer

Tom Brokaw

David Brooks

Jeffrey Brown

John Burnham Schwartz

Thomas Cahill

Ethan Canin

Robert Caro

Billy Collins

Edwidge Danticat

Anthony Doerr

Firoozeh Dumas

Dave Eggers

Anne Enright

Anne Taylor Fleming

Karl Fleming

Richard Ford

Judith Freeman

Thomas Friedman

Alexandra Fuller

Robert Gates

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Annette Gordon-Reed

David Halberstam

Walter Isaacson

Craig Johnson

Maira Kalman

Mary Karr

Juliette Kayyem

Anne Lamott

John Lewis

John Lithgow

Peter Matthiessen

Alexander McCall Smith

Frank McCourt

David McCullough

Ian McEwan

Thomas McGuane

W. S. Merwin

Naomi Shihab Nye

Sandra Day O’Connor

Sharon Olds

Michael Ondaatje

Ridley Pearson

Anna Quindlen

Salman Rushdie

Mark Salzman

Van Gordon Sauter

Sally Bedell Smith

Bryan Stevenson

William Styron

Strobe Talbott

Jeffrey Toobin

Calvin Trillin

Abraham Verghese

Colson Whitehead

Isabel Wilkerson

E. O. Wilson

Simon Winchester
