Speakers

Dexter Filkins

Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent and author of The Forever War

Dr. Sheri Fink

Pulitzer Prize-winning medical journalist and author of Five Days at Memorial, M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford

Dr. Thomas Fisher

Emergency room physician and author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

Angus Fletcher

Professor of story science and author of Primal Intelligence (August 2025)

Gillian Flynn

Award-winning author of the #1 bestselling novel Gone Girl

Franklin Foer

National correspondent for The Atlantic, New America Foundation fellow, and former editor of The New Republic

Jane Fonda

Award-winning actress, bestselling author of My Life So Far, and fitness expert

Jamie Ford

New York Times-bestselling author and book club favorite

Karen Joy Fowler

Award-winning and bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Dr. Marisa G. Franco

Psychologist, professor, friendship expert, and New York Times-bestselling author of Platonic

Ping Fu

Co-Founder of Geomagic, author of Bend, Not Break, Executive chairman of Gelsight