Joyce Maynard

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

What cancer taught me about the nature of love | Joyce Maynard | TEDx

Temple Grandin

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

TEMPLE GRANDIN on the Three Kinds of Kids

Bill Dedman

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Reporter for NBC News; Co-Author, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune"

Lois Lowry

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Kate White

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Jon Bergmann

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

Myla Goldberg

Acclaimed Author, Best Known for "Bee Season"

Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Nate Powell

Award Winning Graphic Novelist, Known for the "March" Series

Tristram Stuart

Environmental Campaigner, Author & Businessman

Gabrielle Hamilton

Owner of PRUNE

Jayne Anne Phillips

Bestselling Novelist and Short Story Writer

Marge Piercy

Award-winning Novelist, Poet & Social Activist

André Aciman

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Novelist and Short Story Writer

C.J. Box

New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Joe Pickett Series & The Stand Alone Series

Dyan deNapoli

Penguin Expert, TED Speaker & Award-Winning Author of "The Great Penguin Rescue"

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

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

Alan Murray

CEO of Fortune Media Group

Patricia Polacco

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

Dr. Scilla Elworthy

Founder of the Oxford Research Group, Three-Time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee & Author

Scilla Elworthy on Humanity

Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Deborah Ellis

Award-Winning Author of International Best-Seller, "The Breadwinner", Feminist and Peace Activist

Markus Rothkranz

Markus Rothkranz is the author of the international bestsellers "Heal Yourself 101", "The Prosperity Secret", "Heal Your Face" and "Free Food and Medicine"

Bart Knols

Scientist, Author, Entrepreneur

Clay Clark

Former U.S. SBA Entrepreneur of the Year; Award-Winning Business Coach; Host of ThriveTime Podcast

Brian Floca

Writer & Illustrator of Children's Books; Known for "Locomotive," "Moonshot," and "Lightship"

Ian Frazier

Author & Humorist; Staff Writer at "The New Yorker"

Jennifer Nielsen

Young Adult Fiction Author Known for "The Ascendance Trilogy"