Virts
Terry Virts is in a very small, prestigious club. He is one of only four astronauts in history to have piloted the space shuttle, flown a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, performed three spacewalks, and commanded the International Space Station (ISS). He also famously took more than 319,000 photographs from space—more than any other astronaut. Commander Virts’s […]
Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan is an acclaimed journalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author of Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness and The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness. Her 2012 memoir Brain on Fire, which has sold over a million copies and was made into a Netflix original movie, one of its most-watched movies of 2016, chronicled […]
Berry
Steve Berry is a New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of over thirty novels. His books have been translated into 41 languages with over 25 million copies in print in 52 countries. In addition to being a prolific and successful thriller writer, Berry was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elected office for over […]
Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, multiple award-winning, and #1 bestselling author who uses brilliant storytelling to bring to life some of history’s most enigmatic individuals. Her books include Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, […]
Brown
SANDRA BROWN is the author of over 70 New York Times bestsellers, including Overkill, Blind Tiger, Thick As Thieves, Outfox, Tailspin, Seeing Red, Sting and Mean Streak. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Her episode on truTV’s “Murder […]
McDaniel
Rae McDaniel (they/them) is a non-binary speaker, author, therapist, certified sex therapist, coach, and transgender diversity and inclusion educator. They are also the founder and CEO of Practical Audacity, a gender & sex therapy practice in Chicago. Rae helps audiences gain the sheer audacity to be themselves in the world through play, pleasure, and possibility. Their […]
Medie
Peace Adzo Medie is an award-winning scholar and Ghanaian writer. Her debut novel, His Only Wife, is a witty and moving glimpse into family and marriage in modern-day Ghana. In it, she explores social pressures felt by women and writes deftly about relationships, class, gender, and wealth. His Only Wife was a New York Times […]
Schultz
Patricia Schultz has a dream job: traveling the globe and writing about it. She is the author of the #1 international bestselling brand 1,000 Places to See Before You Die®. With this, she has reinvented the idea of a travel book as both a wish list and practical guide. She was chosen by Forbes as one of the 25 […]
Stott
Nicole Stott is an astronaut, aquanaut, and artist, and author of Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About our Home Planet – And our Mission to Protect It (Fall 2021). From the moment she left Earth and looked back at our planet, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to do everything […]
Harris
Nathan Harris took the literary world by storm with his 2021 debut novel, The Sweetness of Water, an instant New York Times bestseller chosen for Oprah’s Book Club and Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List. Set in rural Georgia during the turbulent aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation, the novel tells the story of three men, one white and two Black, […]
