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Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

André Aciman

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

Jeffrey Kluger

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Tim Wise

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

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

Adam Silvera

New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "Infinity Son" & "They Both Die at the End"

Deanna Singh

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Advocate of Inclusion and Belonging in the Workplace

Julie Murphy

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author; Known for "Puddin',"Dumplin'" & "Side Effects May Vary"

Damon Young

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

T Kira Madden

Author of "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Gail Honeyman

Award-Winning Author Best Known for "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"

Heather Harpham

Award-winning Memoirist & Playwright

Anna Burns

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author

Leslie Connor

Children's Book Author; Known for "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle"

Daniel Gumbiner

Author of "The Boatbuilder"

Monica Brown

Children's Book Author

Duncan Tonatiuh

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Ali Smith

Scottish Author, Playwright, Academic and Journalist

Fiona Mozley

British Author

Emily Fridlund

Author of 'History of Wolves'

Alissa Nutting

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Emily Henry

Author of “Happy Place;” Known as The Queen of Romance

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Paul Harding

Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist; Author of Tinkers

John Cary

Co-Founder & Partner of FRESH Speakers; Co-Host of TEDCity2.0; Advisor at Aspen Global Health and Development, The Aspen Institute

Julia Alvarez

Award-Winning Poet, Novelist & Essayist

Jeff Hobbs

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Danielle Evans

Author of "Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self" & Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison