Memoir

Our Memoirists speak compellingly to absorbing topics ranging from their battles with illness to their personal victories in overcoming life’s challenges. Their personal stories, filled with moving and inspiring rhetoric, resonate with all types of audiences.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Author of Long Time Leaving, Humorist and Sportswriter

Sam Bracken

Inspirational Speaker and Guide to Initiating Positive Life Changes

Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoirist

Donovan Campbell

Marine Platoon Commander, Now Corporate Executive

Peter Carey

Two-time Booker Prize-winner, National Book Award finalist, and celebrated novelist

Lynne Cox

Modern-day adventurer, long-distance swimmer and bestselling author

Meghan Daum

Journalist, Columnist and Social Arbiter

James Ellroy

L.A. Noir Crime Writer and Social Commentator

Nora Gallagher

Author of Changing Light and Teacher

Jeffrey Goldberg

Author, Journalist and Winner of the National Magazine Award

David Gottfried

World-renowned speaker, author, founder of the green building movement, visionary & Greentech entrepreneur.

Michael Greenberg

Bestselling Author and FYE Favorite

Philip B. Kunhardt III

Biographer, Presidential Historian and Filmmaker

Pico Iyer

Travel Writer, Essayist and Novelist

Madhur Jaffrey

Cookbook Author, Actress, and World Authority on Indian Cuisine

Frances Cole Jones

Corporate Coach and Leadership Trainer

Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Graphic Artist and Breast Cancer Survivor

L.Y. Marlow

A survivor of domestic violence and founder of Saving Promise, a national domestic violence awareness organization

Christopher McDougall

Author, journalist and innovator of the Barefoot-Running Movement

Orhan Pamuk

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Wilbert Rideau

Tireless Advocate for Criminal Justice Reform

Wade Rouse

Acclaimed Author, Humorist and Memoirist

Esmeralda Santiago

Essayist, Award-Winning Screenwriter and Author of the Bestselling novel Conquistadora

T.J. Stiles

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer, American Historian and Author of The First Tycoon

Darin Strauss

Bestselling novelist and author of the acclaimed memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

Cheryl Strayed

"Dear Sugar" columnist, essayist and author of the acclaimed memoir, Wild

Gay Talese

Ground-Breaking Journalist and Renowned Writer

David Thomson

Esteemed Writer, Film Historian and Critic

Abraham Verghese

Renowned Physician, Teacher and Author of Cutting for Stone

Dr. James D. Watson

Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered, Along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the Structure of DNA