Amanda Berry

Cleveland Kidnapping Survivor; Author of "Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland"

Patricia Bosworth

Award-winning Journalist, Best-selling Biographer, Vanity Fair Contributing Editor

Debbie Stier

The Mom Who Cracked the SAT

Craig Shirley

Author, Historian, and Lecturer

Neil White

Best-selling Memoirist, Award-winning Journalist & Publisher

Carrie Cariello

Author of "What Color is Monday: How Autism Changed One Family for the Better" & Huffington Post Blogger

Tracy K. Smith

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S. & Acclaimed Memoirist; Professor at Harvard University

'Here and Now, Elsewhere and Before: A Talk and Reading on Poetry and Time'

Cleary Wolters

The Real-Life Inspiration for Alex Vause in "Orange is the New Black" & Author of "Out of Orange"

Tom Roberts

Mental Health Advocate & Author of "Escape from Myself: A Manic Depressive's Journey to Nowhere"

Monte Burke

Staff Writer at Forbes Magazine, Senior Editor at ForbesLife & Author

Jeanne Nolan

Founder of The Organic Gardener Ltd. and Director of Chicago's Green City Market Edible Gardens

Lawrence Hill

Canadian Novelist, Essayist & Memoirist Best Known for "The Book of Negroes" & "Black Berry, Sweet Juice"

Hanan Al-Shaykh

Lebanese Author of Contemporary Literature Known for Works Like "The Locust and the Bird"

Robert Caro

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, American Historian and Biographer

James Braly

Award-winning Comedic Storyteller, Off-Broadway Monologist, Memoirist, & Teacher

Sonali Deraniyagala

Author of "Wave," a Memoir of Surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Lori Duron

Author of "Raising My Rainbow," Devoted LGBTQ Advocate

Jennifer Ridha

Attorney, Scholar & Author of "Criminal That I Am"

Bruce Cockburn

Canadian Folk/Rock Guitarist & Singer-Songwriter

Philip Connors

Author of "All The Wrong Places"