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YearLecturer
2023Anthony Doerr, New York Times Best-Selling Author
2023Danielle Feinberg, Visual Effects Supervisor at Pixar and advocate for girls in STEM
2022David E. Sanger, Journalist and Author
2022Sterlin Harjo, Filmmaker and Writer
2021Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Author and Neurosurgery Chair – Mayo Clinic
2021Fran Lebowitz, Author of "Metropolitan Life" and "Social Studies"
2020Wes Moore, Chief Executive Officer – Robin Hood Foundation
2019Pablos Holman, Tech Futurist and Inventor
2019David Grann, Author of "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI"
2018Eric Schlosser, Journalist and Author
2018Janna Levin, Author and Cosmologist
2017Evan Osnos, Investigative Journalist and Author
2017Angélque Kidjo, Singer, Activist and Humanitarian
2016Elaine Pagels, Author and Religion Scholar
2016Dennis Lehane, Author of "Mystic River," "Shutter Island," and "Gone, Baby, Gone"
2015Jared Diamond, Author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
2015Erik Larson, Author of "Dead Wake" and "In the Garden of Beasts"
2014Frank Wilczek, Physicist and Mathematician
2014Charles C. Mann, Journalist and Author
2013Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning Biographer
2013Robert Sapolsky, Biologist and Neuroscientist
2013P.J. O’Rourke, Author and Political Satirist
2013Tony Kushner, Author and Playwright of "Angels in America"
2012George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, Author and Political Commentator
2012Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward, Journalists and Coauthors of "All the President’s Men"
2012Michael Tilson Thomas, GRAMMY-winning Musician and Conductor
2011Henning Mankell, Author of Kurt Wallander Series
2011Michael Ondaatje, Author of "The English Patient" and "Divisadero"
2011Jonathan Franzen, Author of "Freedom" and "The Corrections"
2010Stephen Sondheim, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Composer and Lyricist
2010Frank Rich, Former Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Writer-at-large, New York Magazine
2010C. Owen Lovejoy, Professor of Anthropology, Kent State University
2010Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, The New York Times
2009Billy Collins, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
2009Lisa Randall, Theoretical Physicist, Harvard University
2009Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria, Egypt
2008Scott Simon, Peabody Award-winning Correspondent and Host, National Public Radio
2008Tim Blake Nelson, Actor, Director and Writer
2008Cokie Roberts, Political Analyst, ABC News and Senior News Analyst, National Public Radio
2008Azar Nafisi, Professor and Author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
2007Kip S. Thorne, Theoretical Physicist
2007Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio
2005George J. Mitchell, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
2004Richard Preston, Author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event"
2003Calvin Trillin, Humorist, Author and Thurber Prize Recipient, 2012
2002Ronald M. George, Chief Justice, California Supreme Court, Retired
2001Seamus Heaney, Poet, Writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, 1995