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Senior ESPN Writer
Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine and has served as the sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006.
Scholar, Author & Civil Rights Historian
Clayborne Carson was selected by the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King Jr. He studies his life and the movements he inspired.
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.