More Speakers Announced
HERNAN DIAZ
TRUST, long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, is a genre-bending, time-skipping dazzling feat of storytelling about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression. “A razor-sharp dissection of capitalism, class, greed and the meaning of money” (Vogue). Diaz has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
RENEE DUDLEY
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime is an incredible story about a disparate group of outsiders who have used their extraordinary skills to save millions of ransomware victims from paying billions of dollars to criminals. From Renee Dudley, a technology writer for ProPublica (co-authored with Daniel Golden).
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks from award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain, is Patrick Radden Keefe's latest book composed of twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.
TIYA MILES
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake is a National Book Award Winner and New York Times bestseller. Miles, a renowned historian and Professor of History at Harvard University, traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women in South Carolina to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people left out of the archives.
JYOTI THOTTAM
Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India by Deputy Op-Ed Editor for the New York Times, Jyoti Thottam, is a never-before-told true story is about six brave Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same.
FRANS DE WAAL
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist is a fresh and thought-provoking approach to the long-running debate about the balance between nature and nurture and where sex and gender roles fit. It is the latest book from acclaimed Dutch/American biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, known for his work on primates' behavior and social intelligence.