Arts, Humanities & Lifestyle
History:
Historian / Biographer / Teacher
Grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, David Eisenhower is a political scientist and historian with great insight into American history and the leaders who shaped it. He is the author of Eisenhower: At War.
Biographer & Historian
The daughter of 37th US President Richard Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower is a best-selling author, editor, and speaker on such subjects as the presidency, women in politics, and life in the White House.
Scholar, Author & Playwright
Elliot Engel is an award-winning teacher of English and American literature. Featured on PBS for his mini-lecture series on Charles Dickens, his brilliance and humor bring great authors and literature to life.
Best-Selling Author of Forrest Gump
Winston Groom took the publishing world by storm when Forrest Gump hit the top of The New York Times bestseller list for 21 weeks. It sold millions of copies on the heels of its movie adaptation with Tom Hanks.
Acclaimed Biographer & Pulitzer Finalist
A prize-winning journalist, biographer and cultural historian, Wil Haygood is the author of seven books including the New York Times bestsellers Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America and The Butler: A Witness to History.
Author of Running with the Bulls
Valerie Hemingway has evoked the magic and the pathos of Ernest Hemingway's last years in Running with the Bulls, an account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured when capturing the mystique of a great author.
Best-Selling Author
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestseller Baghdad without a Map, Tony Horwitz chronicles his vicarious voyages throughout the world with good humor and a genuine affection for his subjects.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
A professor of American history at Stanford University, David Kennedy offers convention-shattering revelations about 20th Century America. Author of Freedom from Fear, he also contributes to The New York Times.