Non-Fiction Authors

Thomas D. Jones, PhD, is a scientist, author, pilot, and veteran NASA astronaut.

Known all over the world for her best-seller Your Baby and Child, Dr. Penelope Leach.

Linda Fairstein, former prosecutor and best-selling crime novelist.

Maxa is host and executive producer of 95 television episodes on the world’s great destinations that air on public television.

Scott Wapner is the host of the "Fast Money Halftime Report".

James McBride is an author, musician and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, "The Color of Water.

Lifestylist and branding coach Harriette Cole has devoted her career to supporting people as they build their dreams.

Martha Williamson is a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry.

Ntozake Shange declares herself a poet first and playwright second. She is also a dancer, actor.

DaMaris B. Hill, PhD is the author of "A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing.

A leading expert on civil rights and anti-discrimination law, Richard Thompson.

Boyd is a member of the National Black Women's Health Project.

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department at Washington University in St.

Suzan Johnson Cook had the privilege and honor of serving the first African American President of the United States.

Gwen Richardson is an author, publicist and entrepreneur. As an author, she has six published books.

Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Respected internationally as a strategic thinker, inspirational speaker and consummate professional.

Aaron Philip is a teenage model with cerebral palsy. Living through financial struggles as a child in a homeless shelter.

Let’s start with Ms. Pat hasn’t lived the life of your typical comedian. Born to a single mother of 5, living on welfare in a tough West end neighborhood of…

Dr. Sharroky Hollie is a national educator who provides professional development to thousands of educators.

Alain de Botton, FRSL is a Swiss writer, philosopher, and television presenter who currently lives in the United Kingdom.

Dan Pallotta is a builder of movements. He invented the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days.

Annette Gordon-Reed is a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University,

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute.

Diane Guerrero is an actor known for her roles on the hit shows Orange is the New Black, Jane the Virgin, HBO’s Doom Patrol and Sony Pictures' Blast Beat.