Authors
Main Stage
- David Baldacci
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Diana Gabaldon
- Michael Lewis
- David McCullough
- Condoleezza Rice
- J.D. Vance
Contemporary Life
- Danielle Allen
- Graham Allison
- Matthew Desmond
- Michael Eric Dyson
- Roxane Gay
- Sam Kean
- Ibram X. Kendi
- Mark Kurlansky
- Leland Melvin
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Dava Sobel
Fiction
- Nathan Hill
- Ha Jin
- Katie Kitamura
- Hari Kunzru
- Alice McDermott
- Claire Messud
- Elizabeth Strout
- Colm Toíbín
- Amor Towles
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- Jesmyn Ward
Graphic Novels
History & Biography
- A. Scott Berg
- Sidney Blumenthal
- Helene Cooper
- Peter Cozzens
- John A. Farrell
- Steven Levingston
- Ben Macintyre
- Kathy McKeon
- Thomas Oliphant
- Margot Lee Shetterly
- Adm. James Stavridis
- Ronald C. White
Poetry & Prose
Thrillers & Fantasy
- Megan Abbott
- Chris Bohjalian
- Dan Chaon
- Jenny Rogneby
- John Scalzi
- Karin Slaughter
- Scott Turow
- Don Winslow
Teens
- M.T. Anderson
- David Baldacci
- Melissa De La Cruz
- Kathleen Glasgow
- Mary Rand Hess
- Marie Lu
- Sandhya Menon
- Tanya Lee Stone
- Sabaa Tahir
- Angie Thomas
- Nicola Yoon
- Poetry Slam
Children's Purple Stage
- Mike Curato
- Emma Donoghue
- Cynthia Levinson
- Sanford Levinson
- Shelia P. Moses
- Kadir Nelson
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- Dav Pilkey
- Sherri Duskey Rinker
- John Rocco
- Madelyn Rosenberg
- Nikki Russell
- Rachel Renée Russell
- Reshma Saujani
- Wendy Wan-Long Shang
- Ronald L. Smith
- Javaka Steptoe