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Previous Seasons
Following is a list of speakers who have appeared during the past 21 seasons of the Lectures:
2012-2013 SEASON |
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| Erik Larson Jeffrey Toobin Jeffrey Eugenides Tea Obreht Candice Millard |
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Ellen Goodman Jared Diamond Rebecca Skloot and David Lacks Paula McLain Geraldine Brooks |
2011-2012 SEASON |
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| Seymour M. Hersh John Lithgow Jonathan Franzen Mark Bittman Ann Patchett |
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Madeleine Albright Michele Norris and Isabel Wilkerson Sebastian Junger Abraham Verghese Lisa See |
2010-2011 SEASON |
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| Annie Barrows Mary Karr Justice Stephen Breyer Madhur Jaffrey Andrew Ross Sorkin |
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Lee Child Sapphire Tracy Kidder Yann Martel Stacy Schiff |
2009-2010 SEASON |
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| Elizabeth Gilbert Lorrie Moore Paul Theroux Tom Wolfe Junot Diaz |
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Lidia Bastianich Barry Lopez Elizabeth Alexander Audrey Niffenegger Gregory Maguire |
2008-2009 SEASON |
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| Fall Tina Brown Edwidge Danticat Richard Russo David Macaulay Will Shortz |
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Spring Devra Davis Janet Browne Billy Collins Marjane Satrapi Judith Jones |
2007-2008 SEASON |
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| Fall Azar Nafisi Orhan Pamuk Ann Patchett Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nathaniel Philbrick |
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Spring Roddy Doyle Sara Paretsky Elizabeth Kolbert Scott Simon Anthony Bourdain |
2006-2007 SEASON |
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| Fall Christopher Buckley Susan Orlean Bill Bryson Jeff Shaara Jhumpa Lahiri Jaques Pépin |
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Spring Alice Hoffman Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman Colson Whitehead Michael Pollan Deborah Tannen David Sedaris |
2005-2006 SEASON |
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| Fall Eric Schlosser Jonathan Safran Foer Nina Totenberg Alexander McCall Smith Dava Sobel Dr. Andrew Weil |
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Spring Arthur Golden Suzan-Lori Parks Daniel C. Dennett Frank McCourt Robert Sapolsky Sue Monk Kidd |
2004-2005 SEASON |
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| Fall P.J. O’Rourke Tobias Wolff John Irving Terry Tempest Williams Russell Banks Bob Schieffer |
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Spring Margaret Atwood Atul Gawande Mariane Pearl A.S. Byatt Linda Fairstein Brian Greene |
2003-2004 SEASON |
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| Fall Garrison Keillor Scott Turow Alice Sebold Carol Gilligan Walter Isaacson James Patterson |
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Spring Michael Cunningham Lester Thurow Maxine Hong Kingston Laurie Garrett Peter Carey Barbara Ehrenreich |
2002-2003 SEASON |
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| Fall Anna Quindlen Steven Pinker Joan Didion James McBride Bill Bryson Michael Beschloss |
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Spring Biography with a Point of View (Discussion with James Atlas, Bobbie Ann Mason, Wayne Koestenbaum and Patricia Bosworth) Pete Hamill Fareed Zakaria Anchee Min T. C. Boyle Jill Ker Conway |
2001-2002 SEASON |
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| Fall Roy Blount Jr. Arthur Miller Robert Reich Isabel Allende Sue Miller Rabbi Harold Kushner |
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Spring Molly Ivins James Watson Richard Ford Anne Lamott Sarah Vowell/ David Rakoff N. Scott Momaday |
2000-2001 SEASON |
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| Fall David Gergen E.L. Doctorow Carl Hiaasen Frances Mayes Walter Mosley Bob Woodward |
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Spring Rabbi Marc Gellman & Msgr Thomas Hartman Naomi Wolf Lois-Ann Yamanaka & Denise Chavez James Burke Michael Chabon Spalding Gray |
1999-2000 SEASON |
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| Fall Series George Plimpton Gloria Steinam David Sedaris Garry Wills Isaac Stern & Chaim Potok Alan Keyes |
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Spring David Halberstam Susan Estrich Jules Feiffer Louise Erdrich August Wilson Francine Prose |
1998-1999 SEASON |
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| Fall Calvin Trillin Carol Shields Derek Walcott Tony Hillerman Erica Jong James Carville |
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Spring Anna Deavere Smith Daniel Schorr Arthur Miller John Updike Frank McCourt David Macaulay |
1997-1998 SEASON |
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| Fall Leon Uris Senator John Kerry Tom Wolfe Andrew Tobias Jamaica Kincaid Garrison Keillor |
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Spring Wendy Wasserstein Roy Beck Sherman Alexie Jane Smiley Edward O. Wilson Fay Weldon |
1996-1997 SEASON |
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| Fall George Will Penelope Lively Neil Simon Martin Gilbert Carlos Fuentes Scott Turow |
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Spring Lewis Nordan William Greider Susan Love Stephen Jay Gould Alice Walker James Fallows |
1995-1996 SEASON |
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| Fall William F. Buckley, Jr. Kazuo Ishiguro Ben Bradlee Barbara Kingsolver Edward Albee Elie Wiesel |
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Spring Simon Schama Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Maya Lin Stephen King Barry Lopez Jane Goodall |
1994-1995 SEASON |
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| Fall Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana Peter A.A. Berle Doris Lessing Jonathan Kozol Blanche Wiesen Cook Margaret Atwood |
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Spring Tom Gjelten Witold Rybczynski Pat Conroy Robertson Davies John Mortimer Peter Matthiessen |
1993-1994 SEASON |
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| Fall William Styron Betty Friedan John Edgar Wideman/ Albert French Cokie Roberts Ben Okri Ron Chernow |
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Spring Studs Terkel David Leavitt Diane Ackerman Andrei Codrescu T. Coraghessan Boyle |
1992-1993 SEASON |
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| Fall Rosellen Brown Susan Sontag Harris Wofford Amy Tan Joyce Carol Oates Thomas Hoving |
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Spring Richard Rodriguez Nicholas von Hoffman George Plimpton Doris Kearns Goodwin J. California Cooper, Randall Kenan, & Connie Porter |
1991-1992 SEASON |
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| Fall Annie Dillard Russell Banks Martin Gilbert Norman Mailer Philip Caputo William Kennedy Linda Goss & TEJU-Tejoula Ologboni |
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Spring Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Mary Gordon Gail Sheehy Molly Ivins Edna O’Brien Terry McMillan David McCullough |