Award & Prize Winners

Our speakers have been honored with numerous awards and accolades for their work, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, Newberry and National Book Awards. Beyond being recognized in their respective fields, these speakers deliver compelling presentations to audiences at major corporate events, notable medical and business conferences, colleges and universities, as well as community libraries and book clubs.

Pulitzer Prize

Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoirist

Robert A. Caro

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer

Stuart Diamond

One of the World's Leading Experts on Negotiation

Charles Duhigg

Award winning journalist and media commentator

Jennifer Egan

Critically Acclaimed Novelist and Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad

Dexter Filkins

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Foreign Correspondent

Robert K. Massie

Internationally renowned historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

Richard Russo

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel Empire Falls

Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Essayist

T.J. Stiles

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

Tim Weiner

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the National Book Award-winning Legacy of Ashes

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns

Lawrence Wright

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning The Looming Tower, Screenwriter and New Yorker Journalist