May 19, 2025
Nell Irvin Painter is a leading historian of the United States. She is the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University.she is the award-winning author of many books, including Sojourner Truth, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans, The History of White People, Standing at Armageddon and her latest, I Just Keep Talking. She is currently the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and lives in Newark, New Jersey.
May 19, 2025
Tiya Miles is the author of eight books, including four prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. Her latest work is the biography Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes, including the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University
May 19, 2025
Writer Paul Lisicky 2025
Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020), as well as The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award), Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere. He is currently a Professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is Editor of StoryQuarterly. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
May 19, 2025
Carole Joffe is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a professor emerita of sociology at the U. of California, Davis. She is the author of After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion and the coauthor of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America with David S. Cohen.
May 19, 2025
Adam Higginbotham is a British-American writer born in England in 1968. His first book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was published in 2019. The winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History, Midnight in Chernobyl was named one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2019, and became an international bestseller translated into 22 languages.His second book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, was published in May last year. A New York Times bestseller, Challenger won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction. The former US correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and editor-in-chief of The Face, he lives with his family in New York City.
