Frank W. Abagnale, Jr.
Author of the New York Times Best Seller Catch Me If You Can
Arlene Alda
Photographer, clarinetist, editor
Harvey Araton
Award-winning columnist, the New York Times
Greg Atwan and Evan Lushing
Editor at Newser, Harvard Lampoon alumnus
Jane Avrich
Hemingway Short Story Prize winner; Teacher, Saint Ann’s School
Elizabeth Bailey
Patient advocate
Allen Barra
Sportswriter; Author of Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
Jonathan Baumbach
Co-founder, Fiction Collective; former Chairman, Nat’l Society of Film Critics
Gal Beckerman
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize
Ira Berkow
Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist, the New York Times
Yogi Berra
10-time World Series Champion; New York Times Best Selling author
Joe Berlinger
Award-winning filmmaker of “Brother’s Keeper” and “Paradise Lost”
Kathryn Bertine
Pro cyclist, filmmaker; author of All the Sundays Yet to Come
Madeleine Blais
Pulitzer Prize-winner;
Mass professor
Bob Blauner
Professor Emeritus of Sociology,
UC Berkeley
Beth Bosworth
Editor, The Saint Ann’s Review; Teacher, Saint Ann’s; Winner, Drue Heinz Prize
Sarah Boxer
Former New York Times staff reporter
Rus Bradburd
Former NCAA basketball coach; Professor of English, New Mexico State University
Peter Breggin
Author of the New York Times Best Seller Talking Back to Prozac
Tom and Jerry Caraccioli
Identical twin brothers, co-authors, and sport publicists.
Jack Cavanaugh
Sportswriter; Former network television broadcaster; journalism professor
Doc Lew Childre
CEO, The Institute of HeartMath
Leslie Cohen
Novelist
Bud Collins
Boston Globe columnist; ESPN analyst; Tennis Hall of Fame; Red Smith Award winner
Andrew Lewis Conn
Novelist
Amelia Davis
Prize-winning photojournalist
George Dohrmann
Pulitzer Prize and PEN Award-winning Sports Illustrated writer
David Duchovny
Award-winning actor, director, screenwriter, musician
Amram Ducovny
Novelist; Humorist; Playwright, "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald"
Dimitri Ehrlich
Former MTV writer and VJ; Contributing Editor, Interview
Charles Einstein
Pulitzer Prize Finalist; Editor, Fireside Book of Baseball
Carl Elliott
Professor of Bioethics, Univ. of Minnesota; Editor, The Last Physician
David Evanier
Aga Khan Prize-winner; Former Fiction editor, Paris Review
Michael Feldman
Host of radio show "Whad’ya Know?"
Dan Gediman
Executive Producer, formerly of NPR
Frank Gifford
Hall of Fame football and broadcasting legend
William Gildea
Former Washington Post Sports and Style writer and editor
Lisa Glatt
National Best Seller; Mississippi Review Prize winner; Finalist L.A. Times Book Prize
Ari Goldman
Columbia Journalism School professor; author of The Search for God at Harvard
Martin Goodman
Finalist, Whitbread Prize for Fiction
Barbara Graham
Author, Women Who Run with the Poodles; Contributing Writer, “O”
Christopher Gray
Columnist, “Streetscapes,”
the New York Times
David Griffith
Creative Writing Chairman, PA Governor’s School for the Arts; Professor, Notre Dame
Lee Gutkind
Editor, Creative Nonfiction; Blakeslee Award winner; Prof. of English, U. of Pittsburgh
Meredith Hall
Pushcart Prize winner; Finalist, Rona Jaffe Award; Asst. Director, UNH writing program
Jane Hammerslough
Journalist
Lowell Handler
Photojournalist
John Heidenry
Executive Editor,
The Week magazine
W.C. Heinz
Legendary sportswriter
J. Gill Holland
Editor/Translator; Professor, Davidson College
Mark Hyman
Contributing Editor, Business Week; Contributing columnist, Sports Business Journal
Rickie Lee Jones
Grammy-winning singer/songwriter
Linda Kauffman
Professor of English, University of Maryland
Tina Kelley and Kevin Ryan
former New York Times reporter and head of Covenant House
Dan Kennedy
Arthur Rowse Award winner; Media Critic, The Boston Phoenix
Kostya Kennedy
Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
Roger King
Prize-winning author of A Girl From Zanzibar
N.R. Kleinfield
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the New York Times
Edward I. Koch
Former three-term Mayor of New York City
Amy Koppelman
Novelist, child advocate
Mark Kram, Jr.
Reporter, Philadelphia Daily News;
6-time contributor, Best American Sports Writing
Satish Kumar
Former Jain monk; Co-Founder, Schumacher College; Editor, Resurgence
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Columnist, Washington Post Magazine; GQ staff writer; Author of Concussion
Robert Lipsyte
Prize-winning, former New York Times sportswriter, USA Today columnist, ESPN Ombudsman
Bill Littlefield
Host, NPR’s “Only a Game”; Guest Editor, Best American Sports Writing
David L. Marcus
Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday reporter; formerly of U.S. News & World Report
Aspen Matis
Essayist and Riggio Honors student at The New School
Dennis McAuliffe, Jr.
Former Staff Writer,
the Washington Post
Daniel McGinn
Award-winning former National Correspondent, Newsweek
Matthew McGough
Author of Bat Boy; former writer/consultant for “Law & Order”
Kevin Merida
Prize-winning Managing Editor,
the Washington Post
Michael Fletcher
Prize-winning editor/reporter,
the Washington Post
Larry Nager
Cincinnati Enquirer music writer
Hal Niedzviecki
Editor, Broken Pencil; Winner, Best New Magazine Writer
Mark O’Brien
Poet; Subject of Academy Award-winning documentary, "Breathing Lessons"
Timothy L. O’Brien
National Editor, HuffPost; Loeb Award winner; former Editor, New York Times
Keith Olbermann
Award-winning commentator, reporter, writer, and news and sports anchor
Gregory Orr
Prize-winning poet; Professor of English at UVA; Editor, The Virginia Quarterly Review
Bob Ortega
Former Staff Reporter,
the Wall Street Journal
Katherine A. Orton
Staff Writer, the Washington Post
Annie Murphy Paul
Former Senior Editor, Psychology Today; Rosalynn Carter Award winner
Pamela Paul
Editor, the New York Times Book Review
Richard “Digger” Phelps
CBS and ESPN commentator; former Notre Dame basketball coach
Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza
Co-founders and co-owners of The Candle Café
Katherine A. Powers
Prize-winning columnist, formerly of the Boston Globe
S. L. Price
Award-winning Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated; Finalist, L.A. Times Book Prize
David Ray
Prize-winning poet; Founder, New Letters; Editor, Fathers: An Anthology
Beth Raymer
Fulbright Scholar; journalist
Kit Reed
Finalist, Tiptree Award; Novelist
Liz Robbins
Prize-winning Staff Reporter,
the New York Times
Sam Roberts
Award-winning New York Times reporter; Host, NY1’s New York Close-Up
Fiona Rosenbloom
Children’s book author
Constance Rosenblum
New York Times “Habitats” columnist; former Editor of “City” section
A.M. Rosenthal
Pulitzer Prize winner; former Executive Editor, the New York Times
Bob Ryan
PEN/ESPN and Red Smith Award winner; the Boston Globe; ESPN’s “Around the Horn”
Ariel Sabar
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Richard Sandomir
Award-winning New York Times sports columnist
Bruce Schoenfeld
Two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist
Casey Schwartz
Journalist, former Newsweek/Daily Beast contributor
Steven Shainberg
Award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter of “Fur”
Neil Sheehan
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Award
Susan Sheehan
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, and long-time staff writer for the New Yorker
Susan Silverman
Rabbi, social activist
Floyd Skloot
PEN Center Award-winner; Finalist, B&N Discover Award; Pushcart Prize winner
Charles Slack
Former Reporter, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Winner, ELLE magazine "Readers Prize”
Jill Sobule
Award-winning singer/songwriter
Shira Springer
Special projects, investigative, and sports reporter, “Fair Play” columnist
Mike Stanton
Pulitzer Prize-winner; Reporter, The Providence Journal
Amanda Stern
Novelist; Host/Curator, The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series
Mark Swartz
Novelist; Art critic
Tristan Taormino
Award-winning former columnist,
The Village Voice
John Thorn
Major League Baseball’s Official Historian; Editor, Total Baseball
Anne Trubek
Professor of English at Oberlin College
Luis Ubinas
Former President of the Ford Foundation
Lesley Visser
Award-winning sportscaster and sportswriter; NFL Hall of Fame
David Wallis
Founder of Featurewell.com; Editor, Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print
Sharon Waxman
Prize-winning reporter, formerly of the New York Times and the Washington Post
Rex Weyler
Co-Founder of Greenpeace;
co-author of Chop Wood, Carry Water
Erin Cressida Wilson
Playwright, and screenwriter “Secretary” and “Fur”
Alexander Wolff
Award-winning Sports Illustrated staff writer; Founder, Vermont Frost Heaves (A.B.A.)
David Wyatt
Professor of English,
University of Maryland
Andrew Zimbalist
Nation’s leading sports economist; Professor, Smith College
Randi Zuckerberg
Entrepreneur, radio host, author of Dot Complicated