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Best-Selling Author
Therese Anne Fowler’s best-selling book Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald brings justice to the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda. She speaks on her writing career and the importance of community libraries.
Professor & Writer
Melissa Harris-Perry is a college professor and an award winning writer, speaker, and media host.
Acclaimed Biographer & Pulitzer Finalist
Best-selling author, prize-winning journalist, acclaimed biographer and cultural historian Wil Haygood tells the story of America through the lens of history, politics, sports, race and the lives of change-making African-Americans.
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.
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.
Son of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Civil Rights Activist
As the oldest son of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III serves as an ambassador of his parent’s legacy of nonviolent social change.
Best-Selling Novelist / Educator
Earning two spots in Oprah’s Book Club, Wally Lamb wrote The Hour I First Believed, a docudrama of the Columbine massacre, and She’s Come Undone. His writing crosses genres and enthralls readers of all types.
Biographer & Author
A best-selling author and Kennedy expert, speaker Laurence Leamer most recently authored Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which USA Today called "truly fantastic."