This Year's Speaker 
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Previous Speakers
2013 - Carl Hiaasen
America's finest satirical novelist |
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2012 - James Patterson
The only author to have five hardcover novels debut at #1 in one year |
2010 - Nicholas Sparks
New York Times #1 bestselling author with 15 books to his name and six blockbuster movies based on his books |
2010 - Charles Johnson
National Book Award Winner for "Middle Passage" |
2009 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
the host of Nova Science Now and the author of nine books including "Pluto Files" and "Death by Black Hole" |
2008 - T. Boone Pickens
Author of "The First Billion is the Hardest" |
2007 - James Bradley
son of Iwo Jima flag raiser John Bradley, & author of the New York Times #1 bestseller "Flags of Our Fathers" |
2006 - Michael Wallis
Route 66 author and authority, consultant for Pixar's "Cars" and voice of the sheriff |
2005 - Frank Deford
author of fourteen books, senior writer at Sports Illustrated, NPR commentator, and HBO Real Sports correspondent. |
2004 - Billie Letts
Where the Heart Is, featured in the Oprah Book Club, was the basis of the 2000 movie of the same name. |
2003 - Ken Burns
An award-winning filmmaker and author, best known for his epic documentaries, The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz. |
2002 - S.E. Hinton
Author of The Outsiders, basis of the Frances Ford Coppola movie of the same name |
2001 - Oliver Sacks
Author of Awakenings, basis of the Academy Award-nominated movie of the same name |
2000 - William Bernhardt
Author of the Award-winning "Justice Series" |
1999 - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Author of "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt" |
1998 - Judith Viorst
Beloved children's book author, poet and author of the best selling "Necessary Losses" |
1997 - William F. Buckley Jr.
Author, advisor, columnist, and founder of the National Review |
1996 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Internationally-known author of "Slaughterhouse Five" |
1995 - Baxter Black
Cowboy poet and author of Hey, Cowboy Wanna Get Lucky? |
1994 - Andrei Codrescu
Romanian-born writer and National Public Radio commentator |
1993 - Tony Hillerman
Author of the best selling Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee mystery series |
1992 - Alvin Granowsky
Noted humorist |
1991 - Michael Wallis
Award-winning reporter and author of Route 66: the Mother Road |
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