Penguin Speakers Bureau
Topics
Bestselling Novelists (see all speakers)
Susan Vreeland
Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia
Business & Finance (see all speakers)
Rick Barrera
Acclaimed Marketing Consultant and Author of Overpromise and Overdeliver: Secrets of Unshakable Customer Loyalty
Tyler Cowen, PhD
Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Co-author of the Marginalrevolution.com Blog
Coming of Age (see all speakers)
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the international bestseller, Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo
Ariel Sabar
Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past
Culture & Society (see all speakers)
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Three Cups of Tea
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin
Neuroscientist and Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communications at McGill University
Diversity (see all speakers)
Clara Villarosa
Author of Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women and founder of the Hue-Man Bookstore
Moustafa Bayoumi
Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Education (see all speakers)
David L. Marcus
Education writer and author of Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges—And Find Themselves
The Philosophy Guys
Authors of the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
Greg Mortenson
Founder of the Pennies for Peace program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Three Cups of Tea
Fiction (see all speakers)
Food (see all speakers)
Health & Wellness (see all speakers)
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Neuroanatomist and author of the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
SuEllen Hamkins, MD
Co-author of The Mother-Daughter Project and specialist in women's mental health
Mary Pipher
American Clinical Psychologist and author of the revolutionary bestseller Reviving Ophelia
History (see all speakers)
Rebecca Solnit
Award-winning Journalist and Author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Ross King
New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Journalist, and Author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens
Humor (see all speakers)
Tom Farley, Jr.
New York Times–bestselling Author of The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
Journalism (see all speakers)
Frank Bruni
Former New York Times Restaurant Critic and Bestselling Author of Born Round: A Story of Family, Food, and a Ferocious Appetite
Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Journalist, and Author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Memoir (see all speakers)
Military (see all speakers)
Motivation & Inspiration (see all speakers)
Joe Piscatella
President of the Institute for Fitness and Health and author of Take a Load Off Your Heart
Dr. Denise Lamothe
Expert on emotional eating and author of The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping Compulsive Eating
Our Youth (see all speakers)
Zlata Filipovic
Author of the international bestseller, Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo
Lauren Kessler
Author of My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
Pets (see all speakers)
Philosophy (see all speakers)
The Philosophy Guys
Authors of the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
Politics (see all speakers)
P.W. Singer
Senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution
Jan Crawford
Chief Legal Correspondent for CBS News and New York Times Bestselling Author of Supreme Conflict
Religion & Spirituality (see all speakers)
Rosemary Altea
Spiritual Medium, Healer, and International Bestselling Author of A Matter of Life and Death
Ariel Sabar
Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past
Science & Technology (see all speakers)
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin
Neuroscientist and Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communications at McGill University
Michael Dowd
Author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
The Environment (see all speakers)
Patricia Schultz
Named by Forbes as one of the twenty-five most influential women in travel and author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Travel (see all speakers)
David Lida
Journalist and author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century
Elizabeth Gilbert
One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008 and Author of The New York Times Bestsellers Committed and Eat, Pray, Love
Patricia Schultz
Named by Forbes as one of the twenty-five most influential women in travel and author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Women's Interests (see all speakers)
Lauren Kessler
Author of My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence