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

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

Alexandra Fuller

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

Ira Glass

  • Radio Producer and Host, This American Life

Terry Gross

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

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

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

David Rakoff

  • Humorist, Essayist, Author,
    and Contributor to Public Radio’s This American Life

Frank Rich

  • Author & New York Times OP-Ed Columnist

Luis Rodriguez

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

Dr. Robert 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

David Sedaris

  • NPR Humorist and Bestselling Author of Naked,
    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and
    When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Sarah Vowell

  • Bestselling Author of
    The Wordy Shipmates & Assassination Vacation

Terry Tempest Williams

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