Tara Moss

Best-Selling Author and Media Personality

Alain de Botton

Swiss Writer, Philosopher & Television Presenter

Tracy Chevalier

Historical Novelist Best Known for Her Second Novel, "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Neal Stephenson

NY Times Best-Selling Author

Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist & Author of "How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America"

Lord John Browne

Former CEO, BP; Member of the House of Lords

Marge Piercy

Award-winning Novelist, Poet & Social Activist

Jane Yolen

Author, Editor & Writer of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Children's Books

Roy Blount, Jr.

If there is one thing that Roy Blount Jr. prides himself on, his modesty aside, it is that he has done more different things than any other humorist-journalist-sportswriter-poet- performer-lecturer-dramatist of sorts that he can think of.

Bruce Watson

Author of "Freedom Summer"

Mohsin Hamid

Author, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia"

Shalom Auslander

Essayist & Author; Known for "Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir"

Feh: A Memoir

Rabih Alameddine

writer, painter

Lisa Birnbach

Cultural Commentator and Author of "The Official Preppy Handbook" and "True Prep"

Howie Franklin

Howie Franklin is the only Flight Steward who worked for five U.S. Presidents: Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.

Joseph Kanon

New York Times Best Selling Author of Istanbul Passage and The Good German

Anton Disclafani

Anton Disclafani is an American author and creative writer teacher.

Blaine Harden

Author & Journalist Known for "Escape From Camp 14"

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.

Author & Historian

Susanna Moore

Novelist, Teacher, Traveler, Author of "The Life of Objects"