Creative Non-Fiction

Russell Banks

Acclaimed Author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter

Michael Chabon

Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist, Author of
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Bernard Cooper

Award-winning Memoirist, Novelist, and Short Story Writer

Firoozeh Dumas

Bestselling Author of Funny in Farsi:
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

& Laughing Without an Accent

Timothy Egan

National Book Award-winning Author of The Worst Hard Time

Anne Fadiman

Award-winning Writer, Essayist, Editor, and Author of
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Jonathan Franzen

Award-winning Novelist, The Corrections & Freedom

Alexandra Fuller

Award-winning Author Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Ina Garten

Author of the Barefoot Contessa Books & Television Host

Ira Glass

Radio Producer and Host, This American Life

Terry Gross

Award-winning Host of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air

Miranda July

Filmmaker, Artist & Writer

Elizabeth Kolbert

Journalist and Author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
Man, Nature and Climate Change

Anne Lamott

Bestselling Author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions,
and Traveling Mercies

Jaron Lanier

Scientist, Musician, Visual Artist &
Author of Who Owns the Future?

Erik Larson

Award-winning Author of The Devil in the White City
&  In The Garden of Beasts

Fran Lebowitz

Author, Journalist & Social Observer

Barry Lopez

National Book Award Winner, Author of Arctic Dreams

Frances Mayes

Bestselling Author of Under the Tuscan Sun
and A Year in the World

Anchee Min

Bestselling Memoirist and Novelist, Author of Red Azalea and Becoming Madame Mao

Azar Nafisi

Iranian-American Bestselling Author
Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About

Kathleen Norris

Bestselling Essayist on the Spiritual Life: Dakota,
The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and Acedia & Me

Michael Pollan

Bestselling Author & Journalist
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
& The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Frank Rich

Author & Journalist, Featured Essayist
for New York Magazine

Luis J. Rodriguez

Award-winning Poet, Activist, and Bestselling Author
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.

Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky

Science and Nature Writer, Biologist and Neuroscientist, and Stress Expert

Marjane Satrapi

Bestselling Artist/Illustrator and Filmmaker,
Author of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Orville Schell

Author and Journalist, Expert on China and Tibet

Eric Schlosser

Bestselling Author of Fast Food Nation & Reefer Madness

Sarah Vowell

Bestselling Author of
The Wordy Shipmates & Assassination Vacation

Chris Ware

Award-winning Cartoonist and Author,
Author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Terry Tempest Williams

Conservationist, Advocate for Free Speech,
Author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place
and Finding Beauty in a Broken World