George R.R. Martin

Author of the "Game of Thrones" Series

LeVar Burton

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Aftermath

Alvaro Enrigue

Award-Winning Mexican Novelist, Short-Story Writer & Essayist

You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel

Brad Thor

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Laura Esquivel

Mexican Novelist, Essayist & Screenwriter; Known for Bestselling Novel "Como Agua Para Chocolate"

Howard Michael Gould

Author of the Charlie Waldo Novels, Screenwriter, Producer, Director & Playwright

Jenny Han

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

Colm Tóibín

Award-Winning Irish Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist & Playwright; Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University

Colm Tóibín's Laureate for Irish Fiction Annual Lecture 2023

Lesley Lokko

Ghanaian-Scottish Architect, Academic & Novelist; Founder & Chair of the African Futures Institute

Samuel Shem

Medical Expert, Psychiatrist, Acclaimed Novelist, Playwright, Essayist & Activist

TJ Klune

NYT Bestselling Author of "In the Lives of Puppets," "Under the Whispering Door" & "The House in the Cerulean Sea"

The Bones Beneath My Skin

Matthew Dicks

Bestselling Author, Storytelling Coach, Marketing and Communications Consultant & Teacher

Someday Is Today: Achieve Your Goals And Live Without Regret

Sarah Schulman

American Novelist, Historian, Playwright and Lesbian Activist

Mark Olshaker

Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Novelist & Best-Selling Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "Mindhunter"

The Minds Behind Mindhunter

Emily Giffin

NYT Best-Selling Author of "Something Borrowed" & "Heart of the Matter"

Saira Rao

Co-Founder, Race2Dinner; Co-author of the New York Times Bestseller "White Women"

Erika Sánchez

New York Times Bestselling Author, National Book Award Finalist, and 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

Lancelot Schaubert

Novelist of "Bell Hammers," Editor, Performer, Artist Chaplain

Paulette Jiles

American Poet, Memoirist & Novelist

Jay Bonansinga

NYT Best-Selling Author of "The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury"