American Program Bureau offers an esteemed collection of authors and titles that will greatly enrich the collegiate reading experience. By introducing students to these stirring and thought-provoking voices, we hope to help you instill a love of learning and great literature, while sparking thought-provoking discussions.
Wes Moore
Wes Moore is a youth advocate, keynote speaker, Army combat veteran, promising business leader and the best-selling author of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates - contrasting his childhood choices against another Wes Moore's who was eventually imprisoned.
Luis Alberto Urrea
An award-winning poet and essayist, Urrea authored the epic novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter, as well as the The Devil’s Highway, a best-selling nonfiction account of Mexican immigrants crossing over the US border. His latest book, Into the Beautiful North, is lauded for having Urrea’s ...
Sonia Nazario
Sonia Nazario, a projects reporter for The Los Angeles Times, has spent more than two decades reporting and writing about social issues, earning her dozens of national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her series, “Enrique’s Journey,” about the experiences of Latin American children ...
Nicholas Kristof
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has traveled China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into such issues as global health, poverty and ...
Sheryl WuDunn
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and professional speaker, Sheryl WuDunn offers a unique perspective on current economic, political and social issues such as women's rights. As co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Half the Sky, WuDunn calls attention to the trials and triumphs of women ...
James McBride
An award-winning jazz musician, McBride is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Color of Water, a memoir that has become a modern classic. Spike Lee directed the film adaptation of McBride's book, Miracle at St. Anna, paying tribute to African American soldiers who fought in WWII.
Gary Shteyngart
Celebrated by Publishers Weekly as an up and coming young author, and recently recognized as one of today's top fiction writers on The New Yorker's prestigious "20 Under 40" list, Russian immigrant Shteyngart penned the bestsellers The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and his latest, ...
Michael Patrick MacDonald
Author of the incendiary New York Times bestselling memoir All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, and the companion bestseller Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion, MacDonald shares his remarkable story of survival and redemption while examining the tangled relationship between poverty and ...
Pearl Cleage
An accomplished playwright, journalist, poet, and novelist, Cleage probes the issues of race, sex, and love in her literary works, revealing poignant truths about brave women. Author of such titles as Baby Brother's Blues, Seen It All and Done the Rest and her latest, Just Wanna Testify, she is also ...
Colson Whitehead
A critically lauded, award-winning voice, Whitehead has been heralded as a promising young author to watch by Publishers Weekly. Recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for John Henry Days, his brilliant collection provides an articulate view of race, culture, and class today. ...
Naomi Klein
Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Exploring the flaws of neoliberal economics and globalization, her stunning revelations and well-researched insight provides a backdrop to the connections ...
Geoffrey Canada
Profiled on 60 Minutes, Canada has achieved great success as President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, an agency that fuses community building with academic achievement to improve the futures of inner city youth. Recently, President Obama launched an initiative to create “Promise Neighborhoods” around ...
Raj Patel
Patel challenges preconceptions about the global economy through his work as a policy analyst and activist. His most recent book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, paints a clear picture of how achieving a fair society and sustainable economy are possible. He has worked for ...
A.J. Jacobs
Renowned as “the human guinea pig,” A.J. Jacobs has outsourced his life to India, read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a quest to become the smartest person in the world, and lived modern life as the ultimate biblical man. Throwing himself into bizarre situations all in the name of a little curiosity and a ...
Rachel Simmons
Simmons is the author of The New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out, the first book to explore the phenomenon of bullying between girls - just as harmful as boys, but harder to recognize. The Founder and Director of The Girls’ Leadership Institute, she is a highly sought-after consultant to schools all over ...
Lisa See
The New York Times best-selling author of the extraordinary Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, See crafts highly praised works resplendent with fluid language, engrossing portrayals, and rich universal themes. Her newest book is Shanghai Girls, an unforgettable journey of two ...
Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas is a columnist for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune. Their first Bombay-based correspondent in the modern era, he reported on India's transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. As a keynote ...
Michael Eric Dyson
Named by Essence magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African Americans, Dyson is one of the nation's most renowned public intellectuals, revitalizing the role with the fervor of an ordained Baptist minister. Called "a street fighter in a suit and tie," he takes on the toughest and most controversial issues of ...
Koren Zailckas
Author of The New York Times bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Zailckas chronicles her experiences with alcohol abuse as a teenager and high school student. Her story is one of the most riveting firsthand accounts of addiction. It combines insightful observations into the national culture of ...
Juan Williams
A prize-winning columnist and former editorial writer for The Washington Post, Juan Williams is also a Fox News correspondent and a keynote speaker on issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, media and national issues. There are few voices as clear and intelligent on the power of diversity within today's ...
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