Film and TV Adaptation Speakers

Giving behind-the-scenes insights, these film and TV adaptation author speakers bring stories to life at the podium that we have come to love on the page and screen.

Cheryl Strayed

Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and "Dear Sugar" columnist

Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

Charles Yu

National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown

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Matt Bai

Columnist for The Washington Post and author of All the Truth is Out

Annie Barrows

Bestselling novelist of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and children's book author

Andrea Bartz

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers

Deborah Blum

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Poisoner's Handbook and The Poison Squad

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

Ed Catmull

Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of Creativity, Inc.

Lee Child

New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer

Jay Ellis

NAACP Image Award-winning actor, director, producer, and author of Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Emily Jenkins

Acclaimed author of the popular Toys Go Out and Upside Down Magic series

Craig Johnson

New York Times-bestselling author of the Walt Longmire series

Yann Martel

Author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi and New York Times bestseller Beatrice and Virgil

Carine McCandless

Author of New York Times bestseller The Wild Truth and consultant and contributor to Jon Krakauer's book and Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild

Celeste Ng

Author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere

Kiley Reid

Author of Come and Get It and instant New York Times-bestseller Such a Fun Age

Marjane Satrapi

Academy Award-nominated director, cartoonist, and author of Persepolis

Neil Shubin

Evolutionary biologist and discoverer of the "Missing Link," and author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within

Elizabeth Strout

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge and New York Times bestsellers My Name is Lucy Barton, Tell Me Everything, and more

Gabrielle Zevin

New York Times-bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Markus Zusak

#1 New York Times- bestselling author of The Book Thief
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau