The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
9.21.10

Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, author of nine books including the memoir The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist and Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith. Tyson’s latest two books are the playful and informative Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries (a bestseller) and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet.

Jeannette Walls
10.26.10

Jeannette Walls, author of the memoir The Glass Castle, a New York Times bestseller for more than three years. Walls latest book, Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel, became an instant bestseller when it was released last fall.

Dave Eggers
3.29.11

Dave Eggers, the award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist best known for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a lighthearted, fictionalized chronicle of the period following the death of his parents. His other works include Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant’s experiences in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Pete Hamill
4.26.11

Pete Hamill, an accomplished novelist, essayist and journalist whose career has endured for more than forty years. As a journalist, Hamill has covered wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Northern Ireland. He has written for The New York Post, New York Newsday, Village Voice and Esquire, among other publications. Hamill has also published nine novels, most recently, the novel, North River.