Rick Riordan

No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Series, the "Kane Chronicles" and "Heroes of Olympus"

Myla Goldberg

Acclaimed Author, Best Known for "Bee Season"

Elyn Saks

Author of "The Center Cannot Hold;" Associate Dean of Law, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences at USC Law

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Dan Brown

Author of "The Da Vinci Code," "Angels & Demons," "The Lost Symbol"

Da Vinci Code

Barbara Delinsky

New York Times Best-Selling Novelist

Jeffrey Eugenides

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Mary Karr

Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; "Viper Rum," "The Devil's Tour," "Abacus," "The Liars' Club"

Kate Atkinson

Bestselling Author of "When Will There Be Good News?" "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," and "Life After Life"

Gabrielle Hamilton

Owner of PRUNE

Matt Barrie

CEO of Freelancer.com; Matt Barrie is an award winning entrepreneur, technologist and lecturer.

Terri Blackstock

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Laura Lippman

Best-Selling Author & Journalist

Cassandra Clare

Author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal & Publishers Weekly Bestselling "Mortal Instruments" Series

Richard Grossman

Richard Grossman is an award-winning novelist and poet. Breeze Avenue— his 3,000,000-page work conceived as a literary analog of cosmic consciousness— is forthcoming in 2015.

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Haruki Murakami

Contemporary Japanese Writer; Bestselling Author

Alan Murray

CEO of Fortune Media Group

Patricia Polacco

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.