Authors: Nonfiction

Sunil Amrith

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University and professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He is the author of four books, including his most recent, Burning Earth and is the recipient of multiple awards, including a MacArthur “genius” fellowship. Amrith...

Matthew Delmont

Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of five books: Black Quotidian, Why Busing Failed, Making Roots, The Nicest Kids in Town and his most recent book,...

Emmeline Clein

Emmeline Clein is the author of the new acclaimed memoir Dead Weight. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, The Nation, Smithsonian, Berlin Quarterly, VICE, BuzzFeed, Catapult and Antigravity, among other publications. Her chapbook Toxic was published by Choo Choo Press in 2022. She...

Natalie Dykstra

Natalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life and a new book Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Her work on Isabella Stewart Gardner has won a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an inaugural Robert and Ina...

Brad Fox

Brad Fox is a writer, journalist, translator, and former relief contractor living in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, and other literary publications. His novel To Remain Nameless was a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Fiction and...

Gary Gulman

Gary Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters nationwide including Carnegie Hall. He has been a guest on every major late-night comedy program. Gulman’s four comedy specials include HBO's The Great Depresh, a highly acclaimed look at mental illness. In 2019 he appeared in...

Harold Holzer

Withdrawn from the festival due to illness. Harold Holzer, one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, serves as chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He has authored, coauthored, and edited forty-two books, including Emancipating Lincoln, Lincoln at Cooper Union,...

James Marcus

James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and has translated seven books from the Italian, the most recent being...

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is the daughter of a union organizer and a bookkeeper. She is an independent journalist who is best known for her 2003 nonfiction book Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, which chronicles the struggles of two young women as they...

Melissa Newman

Melissa Newman is a vocalist, teacher, writer and artist who works primarily in porcelain and stoneware. She has shown work in galleries around the Northeast.  After enjoying a lucrative jingle career she continues to perform frequently with her jazz trio. Melissa spent almost 20 years volunteering and working with...

Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is the author of nonfiction books, including the recent Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet and William Howard Taft. He is the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, a law professor at George Washington University, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was...

Anna Shechtman

Anna Shechtman is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University and will be an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English in 2024. Her new book is Riddles of the Sphinx.  In addition to her bimonthly crosswords for The New Yorker, she has written for a number of...

Lyn Slater

Lyn Slater is a cultural influencer, model, writer, content creator and former professor. She started Accidental Icon in September of 2014 and has since garnered a loyal fan base of almost a million followers across platforms. Her new book is How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from...

Moon Unit Zappa

Moon Unit Zappa was born in 1967 to legendary musician Frank Vincent Zappa and his second wife, Gail Zappa. At the age of fourteen, Moon Zappa appeared in Frank Zappa’s career defining music video, “Valley Girl,” which later helped jump-start Moon’s own career. Since then, Moon has worked as an...