Stephanie Gorton

May 19, 2025

Stephanie Gorton wrote The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America, a finalist for the Plutarch Award for the best biography of the year, and Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America, a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Paris Review Daily, among other publications, and she has appeared on radio shows including On Point and Slate Political Gabfest. Lebanese American by birth, Gorton lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Harry Bliss

May 19, 2025

• Harry Bliss is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine. His self titled Cartoon ‘Bliss’ appears in newspapers throughout the United States, Japan and Canada. He is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine and his self titled Cartoon ‘Bliss’ appears in newspapers throughout the United States, Japan and Canada. Bliss has illustrated over 25 books for children and two New York Times bestselling books with Steve Martin.His new book is You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir of his beloved dog Penny. Bliss is the founder of the CCS Cornish Residency Fellowship for graphic novelists, located in Cornish New Hampshire. He is the founder of the CCS Cornish Residency Fellowship for graphic novelists, located in Cornish New Hampshire.

Henry Alford

May 19, 2025

Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker for more than two decades. A former columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of seven books, including his new book,  I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots, And Then We Danced, How to Live, and Big Kiss, an account of his attempts to become a working actor, which won a Thurber Prize.