Authors
Main Stage
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Carla Hayden
- Stephen King
- Shonda Rhimes
- Salman Rushdie
- Raina Telgemeier
- Bob Woodward
Children I
- Ken Burns
- Doreen Cronin
- Thomas Gonzalez
- Nadia Hashimi
- Betsy Lewin
- Juana Medina
- Janet Nolan
- Jerry Pinkney
- Jason Reynolds
- Sharon Robinson
- Melissa Sweet
- Hervé Tullet
- A Book That Shaped Me Contest
- Letters About Literature
Children II
- Raymond Arroyo
- Kate Beaton
- Andrea Beaty
- Aaron Becker
- Sophie Blackall
- Tonya Bolden
- Louise Borden
- Callista Gingrich
- Shannon Hale
- Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Calvin Trillin
- Brendan Wenzel
Teens
- Kwame Alexander
- Ali Benjamin
- Edwidge Danticat
- Brendan Kiely
- Jo Knowles
- Lois Lowry
- Meg Medina
- Holly Robinson Peete
- Paul Rudnick
- Kiersten White
- Gene Luen Yang
- Poetry Slam
Books to Movies
- Monica Hesse
- Patrick Ness
- Katherine Paterson
Contemporary Life
- Jabari Asim
- Alejandro Danois
- Angela J. Davis
- Susan Jacoby
- Jo Ann Jenkins
- James McBride
- Diane Rehm
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Jeffrey Toobin
Fiction I
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Fiction II
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- Harlan Coben
- Justin Cronin
- Lauren Groff
- Carl Hiaasen
- Jay McInerney
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Richard Russo
- Jacqueline Woodson
Food & Home
- William Allman
- Chuck Fischer
- Alessandro Frassica
- Adam Gopnik
- Victor Hazan
- Déborah Holtz
- Pati Jinich
- Roland Mesnier
- Betty Monkman
- Mark Ramsdell
Graphic Novels
- Andrew Aydin
- Darrin Bell
- Berkeley Breathed
- Rep. John Lewis
- Ed Piskor
- Michael Ramirez
- Noelle Stevenson
- Gene Luen Yang
History & Biography
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- Douglas Brinkley
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- Margo Jefferson
- Jon Meacham
- Candice Millard
- Peter S. Onuf
- Katherine Paterson
- Stacy Schiff
- Sarah Vowell
- Joby Warrick
International
- Roberto Canessa
- Álvaro Enrigue
- Margita Gailitis
- Ann Goldstein
- Adam Gopnik
- Nora Ikstena
- Jonas Hassen Khemiri
- Laila Lalami
- Alberto Ruy Sánchez
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Poetry & Prose
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- Sandra Beasley
- Michael Cunningham
- Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Marilyn Hacker
- Joy Harjo
- Kelly Link
- Yuko Shimizu
- A.B. Spellman
- Luis Alberto Urrea
- Poetry Out Loud
- Poetry Slam
Science
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