Authors
Main Stage
- Madeleine Albright
- Dave Eggers
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Jon Meacham
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- Amy Tan
Children's Green Stage
- Katherine Applegate
- Harry Bliss
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Kate DiCamillo
- Russell Ginns
- Erin Entrada Kelly
- Minh Lê
- Meg Medina
- Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Nikki Russell
- Rachel Renée Russell
- Dan Santat
- Brian Selznick
- David Ezra Stein
- Brendan Wenzel
- A Book That Shaped Me Contest
Children's Purple Stage
- Sylvia Acevedo
- Matthew Cordell
- Patrick Downes
- Chris Grabenstein
- Jessica Kensky
- Loren Long
- Danica McKellar
- Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Matt de la Peña
- Jason Reynolds
- David Shannon
- Suzanne Slade
- Trudi Trueit
- Jacqueline Woodson
Teens
- Elizabeth Acevedo
- Robin Benway
- Alexandra Bracken
- Ellen Hopkins
- Justina Ireland
- Brendan Kiely
- David Levithan
- Sandhya Menon
- Marisha Pessl
- James L. Swanson
- Poetry Slam
Fiction
Genre Fiction
- Pénélope Bagieu
- Leigh Bardugo
- Jeffery Deaver
- Joseph Finder
- Roxane Gay
- Deborah Harkness
- David Ignatius
- Patrick McDonnell
- Brad Meltzer
- Louise Penny
- Ed Piskor
- Hank Phillippi Ryan
- Tillie Walden
History & Biography
- Kai Bird
- Ron Chernow
- Steve Coll
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Stuart E. Eizenstat
- David Ignatius
- Lawrence P. Jackson
- Joseph Kanon
- Catherine Kerrison
- Brian Kilmeade
- Patricia O'Toole
- Adam Sisman
- Lawrence Wright
Poetry & Prose
- Natalie Diaz
- Camille T. Dungy
- Mark Eisner
- Heid E. Erdrich
- Jennifer Elise Foerster
- Robert Hass
- Kay Redfield Jamison
- Patricia Lockwood
- James McBride
- Lorrie Moore
- Patrick Rosal
- Richard Russo
- Tracy K. Smith
- Poetry Out Loud