Upcoming Lectures

Min Jin Lee’s award-winning fiction explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, immigration, class, religion, gender and identity of a diasporic people. An epic story of a Korean family who migrates to Japan, the New York Times bestseller and award winner Pachinko appeared on over 75 “best books-of-the-year” lists, including NPR, PBS and CNN. Her debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was a national bestseller.

Meg Wolitzer’s latest novel is The Female Persuasion. She often writes about the challenges facing aspiring artists and American gender politics. The Wife was adapted into a 2017 movie whose protagonist was played by Glenn Close. In her engaging lectures Wolitzer draws from the themes of her books, adding entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful insights into her craft.

Author of the first book about global warming, 1989’s The End of Nature, McKibben also founded 350.org, the biggest grassroots climate campaign in the world. His latest book, Falter, a New York Times bestseller, offers a “call-to-arms” 30 years after his first book set the stage. The author of fifteen books, The Boston Globe called McKibben “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”

She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with education, while grappling with her exceptional upbringing, Westover pursued learning at Brigham Young University, Trinity College, and Harvard University. Educated, the award-winning memoir of her extraordinary journey, earned her a spot on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2018.