Historians & Best-Selling Authors

All acclaimed for their storytelling and unparalleled perspective, our Historians & Best-Selling Authors draw on their captivating work from the pages of well-worn novels to interpretive looks at our past to bring both new and old worlds to life on stage.

Ken Burns

Award-winning documentary filmmaker

David Baldacci

Best-selling novelist and founder of Wish You Well Foundation
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Captain Scott Kelly & Colonel Eileen Collins

Captain Scott Kelly & Colonel Eileen Collins

Pioneering “Year-in-Space” astronaut joins the first female space shuttle pilot in NASA history
Keywords:
  • NASA;
  • Astronaut;
  • Leadership;
  • Author;
  • Breaking Barriers;
  • Space Exploration
David Baldacci

David Baldacci

Best-selling novelist and founder of Wish You Well Foundation
Keywords:
  • Storyteller;
  • Novelist;
  • Attorney;
  • Literacy Advocate;
  • Author;
  • Exclusive
Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

Master Storyteller, Host & Producer
Keywords:
  • Comedian;
  • Author;
  • Storyteller;
  • Humor;
  • Exclusive
Captain Scott Kelly

Captain Scott Kelly

History-making NASA astronaut; Real-life hero whose bestselling memoir was optioned for a major motion picture by Sony
Keywords:
  • Astronaut;
  • American Hero;
  • NASA;
  • Author;
  • Year In Space;
  • Exclusive
Safi Bahcall

Safi Bahcall

Award-Winning Physicist, Biotech Entrepreneur and Bestselling Author of Loonshots
Keywords:
  • Best-Selling Author;
  • Business Strategy;
  • Business Growth;
  • Creativity;
  • High Performing Teams;
  • Innovation;
  • Teamwork;
  • Leadership;
  • Storyteller;
  • Entrepreneurship;
  • Disruption;
  • Change;
  • Peak Performance;
  • Theoretical Physics
Dave Barry

Dave Barry

Humorist and best-selling author
Keywords:
  • Pulitzer Prize;
  • Author;
  • Cultural Commentary
Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein

Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist and investigative reporter
Keywords:
  • Journalist;
  • Best-Selling Author;
  • Politics;
  • American Presidency;
  • Pulitzer Prize;
  • Watergate
Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss

Award-winning presidential historian
Keywords:
  • Politics;
  • Historian;
  • World Affairs;
  • Media Personality;
  • Author;
  • American Presidency
Shannon Bream

Shannon Bream

Host of Fox News Sunday; FNC Chief Legal Correspondent and SCOTUS Expert
Keywords:
  • Best-Selling Author;
  • Fox News;
  • Leadership;
  • Journalist;
  • Politics;
  • Supreme Court;
  • Legal Affairs
Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Keywords:
  • Documentarian;
  • filmmaker;
  • Storyteller;
  • Historian
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Public Intellectual & Best-Selling Author
Keywords:
  • Diversity;
  • Race;
  • Social Issues;
  • Mass Incarceration;
  • Black History Month
Jeffrey Engel

Jeffrey Engel

Leading Presidential Historian of our time; Podcast host, The Past, The Promise, The Presidency; and Founding Director, SMU's Center for Presidential History
Keywords:
  • Historian;
  • Politics;
  • World Affairs;
  • American Presidency;
  • Author