Monica Brown

Children's Book Author

Duncan Tonatiuh

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Rita Williams-Garcia

Award-Winning Author Best Known For "One Crazy Summer"

Tahereh Mafi

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Shatter Me" Series

Samantha R. Vamos

Children's Book Author

Gordon Korman

Children's Book Author

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Simon Lovell

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Patricia Polacco

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Alice Schertle

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Children's Book Author

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

Damon Young

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

Diane McWhorter

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Gilbert King

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Known for "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America"

Jill Santopolo

Best-selling Author Best Known for "The Light We Lost"

Linda Gordon

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

Danielle McGuire

Award-Winning Author & Historian of Racial and Sexual Violence

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Meg Medina

Award-Winning Cuban American Children's Author

Beth Clark

Founder of Thinkspot Communications

Jon Klassen

New York Times Bestselling Children's Author and Illustrator, Known for "I Want My Hat Back"

J.D. Vance

U.S. Senator of Ohio; #1 New York Times Best-selling Author of "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

Pam Muñoz Ryan

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Laura Numeroff

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Meet Laura Numeroff, Author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Faith Ringgold

Civil Rights Activist, Women's Right Activist, Author, Educator & Painter

Artist Faith Ringgold’s life’s work celebrated in New York exhibit

Jennifer Nielsen

Young Adult Fiction Author Known for "The Ascendance Trilogy"

Mary Pope Osborne

Children's Author Known for "The Magic Tree House" Series

Bruce Degen

Bestselling Author and Illustrator of "Jamberry"

Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.