2025 Keynote Speakers
Memoir Keynote
Geraldine Brooks
Memorial Days
Mystery Keynote
Patricia Cornwell
Sharp Force
Fiction Keynote
Kiran Desai
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Non-fiction Keynote
Maureen Dowd
Notorious
YA Keynote
Hafsah Faizal
A Steeping of Blood
Romance Keynote
Julia Quinn
Bridgerton Series
Closing Keynote
Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
Kick-off Keynote
Andrew Ross Sorkin
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation
2025 Headliners
Colin Channer
Console
Susan Choi
Flashlight
Janet Echelman
Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman
Tiffany D. Jackson
The Scammer
Erin Entrada Kelly
The Last Resort
Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
Nathan Hale
Bones and Berserkers
Elin Hilderbrand
The Academy
Ryan La Sala
The Dead Of Summer
Ken Liu
All That We See or Seem
Jill McDonough
American Treasure
Kwame Mbalia
Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits
Catherine Newman
Wreck
Tochi Onyebuchi
Harmattan Season
David Pakman
The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
Steven Pinker
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Farrah Rochon
Pugs & Kisses
Peter H. Reynolds
The Dot
Brandon M. Terry
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Michael Thomas
The Broken King