Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2012 NWS Guest Author
In 2005, Ayaan Hirsi Ali was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her memoir, Infidel, was an international best-seller, praised by the New York Times as “brave, inspiring and beautifully written.”
Natalie Bakopoulos
2012 NWS Guest Author
Natalie Bakopoulus is a professor at her alma mater, the University of Michigan, and a contributing editor to the prestigious Fiction Writers Review.
Geraldine Brooks
NWS 2012 Guest Host
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian journalist and author, has written several international best-sellers including Nine Parts of Desire, Year of Wonders and People of the Book. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for March, a riveting parallel novel to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women told from the point of view of the March family’s absent father.
Benjamin Busch
2012 NWS Guest Author
A former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served two combat tours in Iraq, Benjamin Busch returned to the U.S. to play a Marine in HBO’s Generation Kill, where he pretended to invade towns he had actually invaded in the line of duty.
Susan Casey
2012 NWS Guest Host
Susan Casey is O Magazine’s editor-in-chief, and a New York Times best-selling author. She has been a featured guest on programs including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Charlie Rose and Conan.
Alan Cheuse
2012 NWS Guest Author
National Public Radio’s acclaimed “Voice of Books,” Alan Cheuse is a master of words, both his own and others. As a book critic, Cheuse appears regularly on NPR’s All Things Considered and has served as a fiction judge for the National Book Award.
Lee Child
2012 NWS Guest Author
Lee Child is a #1 best-selling author and the creator of the Jack Reacher series
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Michael Connelly
2012 NWS Guest Author
Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Over forty-five million copies of Connelly’s books have sold worldwide and he has been translated into thirty-nine foreign languages.
Janet Evanovich
2012 NWS Guest Author
Janet Evanovich began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum.
Vince Gilligan
2012 NWS Guest Author
Vince Gilligan is the creator of acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad and has also worked on the hit series The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen.
Elizabeth Kostova
2012 NWS Guest Host
Elizabeth Kostova's worldwide blockbuster, The Historian, is a tale of three generations of historians on the track of the original Dracula. After a bidding war for the publishing rights, Elizabeth accepted a $2 million contract, and the book went on to become the fastest-selling hardcover debut novel in American publishing history and the first debut novel to ever premiere at number one on the New York Times best-seller list.
Jodi Picoult
2012 NWS Guest Author
Jodi Picoult is the best-selling author of eighteen novels: her last five all debuted at number one on the New York Times Best-sellers list.
Anna Quindlen
2012 NWS Guest Author
Anna Quindlen, beloved by readers for her portrayals of families and life lessons, is a journalist, award-winning columnist and best-selling author of Good Dog. Stay, Object Lessons, Rise and Shine, Blessings and One True Thing, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
Michael Sandel
2012 NWS Guest Author
A wildly popular Harvard professor and internationally renowned lecturer and author, Michael Sandel is known for confronting today’s looming political and ethical questions.
Maggie Stiefvater
2012 NWS Guest Author
Maggie Stiefvater is the author of popular young adult novels, The Scorpio Races and The Shiver Trilogy.