KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Author Known for "The Moon and More" "Someone Like You" & "That Summer"

Author of the Best-Selling "Twilight" Series

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Attorney & 11-Time Bestselling Author

Bestselling Author, Film Adaptations Creator, Philanthropist

Celebrity Style Commentator, Fashion Expert, Author

Comedian, Actress, Co-host of "The View", Author

International Bestselling Author, Espionage Novelist, Former Journalist

Award-Winning Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; Known for "The Liars' Club"; Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University

Leading Activist & Best-Selling Author

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Speaker

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

New York Times Best Selling Author, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Best Known for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Barkskins"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"