Rainbow Rowell

Author Known for "Landline," "Attachments," "Fangirl," "Eleanor & Park" & "Carry On"

Jennifer Pharr Davis

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Outdoor School: Hiking and Camping: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide

Daniel Beaty

Award-Winning Writer, Composer & Performer

Kim Stanley Robinson

Bestselling & Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Jon Bergmann

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

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl is an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Yangsze Choo

New York Best-Selling Novelist of "The Ghost Bride" & "The Night Tiger"

Samantha Shannon

Author, "The Bone Season"

Tim Tharp

is a published author of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Tim Tharp include The Spectacular Now, Knights of the Hill Coun

Ken Kalfus

Author of the New Novel, "Equilateral," About the Centuries-Old Quest for Life on Other Planets

Anna Holmes

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Max Brooks

Author of "The Zombie Survival Guide" & "World War Z"

Tara Moss

Best-Selling Author and Media Personality

Corban Addison

Best-Selling Author, Attorney & Activist

Jeffrey Eugenides

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Da Chen

Da Chen is a Chinese author whose works include Brothers, China's Son, Sounds of the River, Sword, and Colors of the Mountain

James Patterson

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Christopher Darden

Writer, Lecturer & Practicing Attorney; Co-Prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

Dave Logan, PhD

Co-Founder of Care4th LLC & Author of New York Times #1 Bestseller "Tribal Leadership"

Jasmin Darznik

Iranian Immigrant; Author & Cultural Historian

Josh Linkner

Serial Entrepreneur, New York Times Best-Selling Author & Venture Capital Investor

Manil Suri

Author, The Death of Vishnu

Seth Godin

Business & Marketing Expert & New York Times Bestselling Author of "Purple Cow," "Linchpin," & "Tribes"

John Edgar Wideman

Award-winning Novelist

Kate White

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

Iyanla Vanzant

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Spiritual Life Coach & Host of "Iyanla Fix My Life"

Omar Tyree

Award-Winning Author

Lalita Tademy

One of America's most Exciting Novelists, known for Cane River Her first book, Cane River

Dr. Ian Smith

Doctor, New York Times Bestselling Author, Medical Contributor & Host of "The Doctors"