Food writer for the New York Times, Times Magazine, and food52.com, Hesser's books include The Essential New York Times Cookbook and Eat, Memory.

Nigerian-born author of three books, including Purple Hibiscus (awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) and Half of a Yellow Sun (awarded the Orange Prize). She received a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship.

2009 Winner of the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, "the first great 9/11 novel."

Author of 11 books of poetry. Her tenth, Averno, was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006 and was listed by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year.

Jollimore is the author of two books of poetry, including Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Koethe has published eight books of poems, including Falling Water, philosophy, and essays. 

Identical twins and utterly unique poets. Michael Dickman’s, Flies, received the 2010 James Laughlin Award. Matthew Dickman has won a Lannan Foundation Fellowship & The Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Words Matter...we dreamed up an extra night of the year just to raise our glasses to them. Featuring: Jim Lynch and Ed Skoog

Popular philosopher and essayist, de Botton is the author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, The Architecture of Happiness, and How Proust Can Change Your Life.

Delia Ephron is a screenwriter (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You’ve Got Mail, Hanging Up, and Michael), and bestselling author (How to Eat Like a Child, Funny Sauce, Frannie in Pieces).

A favorite author of Israel’s younger generation, as well as an international success for his short stories (Suddenly a Knock on the Door), movies (Jellyfish),  and graphic novels (Pizzeria Kamikaze).

2 lectures remain! Join us as dynamic School of Communication professor David Domke unpacks our culture’s lead-up to the 2012 presidential election.

Taught by Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, MOHAI’s Public Historian, this series will examine five turning points in Washington’s history, each richly illustrated with documents, maps, and photographs from the state’s libraries and archives,.