Guest Speakers from Previous Summers included:

• Dennis Lehane
• Award-winning, best-selling author
• Garrison Keillor
• Author, storyteller, humorist and creator of A Prairie Home Companion
• Chris Columbus
• Filmmaker – Screenwriter/Producer/Director
• Dr. Joseph J. Ellis
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Anita Diamant
• Best-selling, award-winning author
• Timothy Ferris
• Award-winning science writer, documentary filmmaker, journalist
• Alan Zweibel
• Playwright, author and Emmy Award-winning writer
• Peter Straub
• Award-winning author
• Susan Straub
• Founder of READ TO ME Program
• Jacob Lewis
• Co-founder of Figment.com, a mobile publishing site for young adult readers
• Barry Eisler
• Best-selling, award-winning author
• Cammie McGovern
• Award-winning author
• Laura Dave
• Award-winning author
• Robin Hessman
• Award-winning documentary filmmaker
• Aaron Lansky
• Author and Founder and President of the National Yiddish Book Center
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author, biographer, historian and political commentator
• Dr. Debby Applegate
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Dr. Richard Reeves
• Award-winning author, journalist and documentary filmmaker, syndicated columnist and Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California
• Janis Cooke Newman
• Award-winning author
• Laura Shaine Cunningham
• Memoirist, novelist, playwright and journalist
• Kurt Andersen
• Writer, editor and Co-creator of Studio 360 radio show
• Laurence Yep
• Best-selling, award-winning author
• Larry Beinhart
• Screenwriter and award-winning author
• Howard Greene and Dr. Matthew Greene
• President and Educational Director (respectively) of the nation's leading independent educational consulting company
• Martin Espada
• Editor, essayist, translator and award-winning poet
• Amity Gaige
• Award-winning author
• Sharon Robinson
• Author, educator, and Vice Chairman of The Jackie Robinson Foundation
• John Rocco
• Award-winning author and illustrator
• David Ewing Duncan
• Award-winning author, journalist, television, radio and film producer
• Maile Meloy
• Award-winning author
• Jerome Charyn
• Award-winning author, filmmaker and educator
• Nathan Bransford
• Author, blogger and former publishing executive
• Torrey Maldonado
• Author and educator
• Jan F. Constantine
• General Counsel of the Author’s Guild
• Suzzy Roche
• Recording Artist and co-founder of the singing group The Roches, author