The following is a complete list of the presenters in both the Library Live and The Witte Lectures.
The Witte Lectures
Sixteenth Annual (2013)
Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Adam Gopnik, author and writer for The New Yorker since 1986
Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series
Anna Quindlen, bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation
Fifteenth Annual (2012)
George Friedman, American political scientist and the Chief Executive Officer and founder of STRATFOR
Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe
Alexandra Fuller, Anglo-African author of "Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness"
Ken Auletta, author, journalist and media critic for The New Yorker
Fourteenth Annual (2011)
Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
Ruth Reichl, former Editor-in-chief Gourmet Magazine
Dave Eggers, author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”
Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of "Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves"
Sebastian Junger, Internationally acclaimed author and journalist
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Senior Analyst & best-selling author
Thirteenth Annual (2010)
David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times on "The Inheritance"
Frances Mayes, author, on "Every Day in Tuscany"
Douglas Rushkoff, social and media theorist, on "Life, Inc."
Dr. David Kessler, former Commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, on "The End of Overeating"
Twelfth Annual (2009)
David Hume Kennerly, photographer, Pulitzer-prize winner on "Behind the Scenes of History"
Mohamed El-Erian, global economist, CEO of PIMCO on "When the Unthinkable Becomes Thinkable"
Brian Greene, physicist, author, celebrated educator on "Explaining the Elegant Universe"
Irshad Manji, author, columnist, PBS documentary filmmaker on "Confessions of a Muslim Reformer"
Eleventh Annual (2008)
Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and human rights activist on "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier"
Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, author on "Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming"
Robin Wright, foreign policy journalist for The Washington Post on "The Future of the Middle East"
Lowell Bergman, investigative reporter, professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on "The End of News: Public Interest vs. Private Profit"
Tenth Annual (2007)
Gerd Ludwig, Photojournalist
Frank Deford on "Sports: The Hoopla and the Hypocrisy"
Michael Pollan on "The Omnivore's Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast Food World"
Reza Aslan on "The Future of Islam: Toward the Islamic Reformation"
Andrew Sullivan on "The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back"
Ninth Annual (2006)
Seymour Hersh on "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib & Beyond"
Ron Haviv on "Freelancing in a World of Risk"
Robert Thurman on "The Spirituality of True Capitalism; Generosity = Prosperity"
Edward Albee on "Remember the Afternoon"
Eighth Annual (2005)
Joe Klein on "Primary Colors"
Dr. Leonard Shlain on "The Alphabet vs. The Goddess"
Eric Schlosser on "Fast Food Nation"
Christopher Hitchens on "The Impact of Literature in the 21st Century"
Seventh Annual (2004)
Lori Wallach on "The Era of Corporate Globalization"
Bruce Babbitt on "Environmental Policy & Law"
Gen. Anthony Zinni on "The American Military"
Nancy Soderberg on "The United Nations"
Sixth Annual (2003)
Jeremy Rifkin, economist on "Petroleum, Politics & The Hydrogen Economy"
David Halberstam, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist on "New Challenges in a Time of Uncertainty"
David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner on "Prescription for Life: the FDA and You"
Ray Suarez, correspondent and immigration expert on "On the Border: Are We Still a Melting Pot?"
Fifth Annual (2002)
David Gergen, presidential advisor "Leadership in America"
Laurie Garrett, medical journalist on "Betrayal of Trust"
Howard Zinn, revisionist historian on "America Today, America Past"
Todd Buchholz, economist on "Competing & Surviving in a Turbulent Economy"
Fourth Annual (2001)
Sylvia Earle, marine biologist on "Sustainable Seas: The Vision, The Reality"
Jared Diamond, UCLA physiology professor on "Guns, Germs, & Steel"
Gregory Stock, transformational technology expert on "The Human Genome Project"
Robert Gates, former CIA head on "Real World Dangers: Global Terrorism"
Third Annual (2000)
Susan Faludi, feminist writer on "Whose Backlash Is It, Anyway?"
Orville Schell, China expert on "China: Will It Be a Friend or Enemy"
Tom Brokaw, NBC news anchor on "Problems & Challenges in the 21st Century"
Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist on "The Surprising Pattern of Life's History"
Second Annual (1999)
David Levy, comet-discoverer on "The Sky's the Limit"
Andy Rooney, CBS News correspondent on "More Than a Few Minutes"
Susan Estrich, USC law professor on "Politics, Crime and the Rule of Law"
Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer on "Shared Memories"
First Annual (1998)
Michael Jackson, broadcast journalist on "Public Opinion on the Air Waves"
Donna Shirley, JPL Mars Program Manager on "Women in Outer Space"
Jeff Greenfield, political analyst on "Media & Politics in the 21st Century"
George Plimpton, writer on "Reflections and Projections"
Authors featured in the Library Live Programs
March 2013
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
February 2013
Dr. Hans Keirstead
November 2012
Tatjana Soli
October 2012
Dr. Erwin Chemerinsky
October 2012
William Mann
September 2012
Erik Larson
September 2012
Kati Marton
May 2012
Greg Gorman
March 2012
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
March 2012
Steven Levy
February 2012
Robert D. Kline
January 2012
Peter McBride
November 2011
Stephanie McClellan, M.D.
September 2011
Lisa Lee
September 2011
Shawn Green In conversation with Jean Hastings Ardell
April 2011
Katie Arnoldi
April 2011
Peter Stekel
February 2011
Susan Vreeland
December 2010
Andrew Winer
October 2010
Meghan Daum
September 2010
Eleanor Coppola with Deborah Landis
June 2010
Tatjana Soli on "The Lotus Eaters"
May 2010
Special Program on Best Practices in Public Art with Mary Beebe and Alexis Smith
May 2010
Victoria Patterson on "Drift"
April 2010
Gordon McAlpine, Robert Ward & Mary Castillo on "Orange County Noir"
November 2009
Lisi Harrison on "The Clique Series"
October 2009
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist on “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”
Allegra Huston on "Love Child"
September 2009
Richard Seff on "My Life Upon the Wicked Stage"
Bob Smiley on "Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for all 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season"
Lynda Resnick on "Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business"
April 2009
Franz Wisner on "How the World Makes Love: What a Jilted Groom Learned About Love"
March 2009
Peter Greenberg on "Tough Times, Great Travels"
William Lobdell on "Losing my Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America - and Found Unexpected Peace"
Drs. Julie and Michael VanRooyen
January 2009
Michelle Latiolais on "A Proper Knowledge"
December 2008
Steven Thomas on "Criminal Paradise"
November 2008
Sandra Tsing Loh on "Mother on Fire"
October 2008
Bill McKibben, American environmentalist on “Deep Economy”
June 2008
Lauren Weisberger on The Devil Wears Prada"
May 2008
Ray Bradbury
April 2008
Dr. James B. Pick on "Geo Business: GIS in the Digital Organization"
February 2008
Stan Chambers on "News at 10"
November 2007
William Mann on "Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn"
Tony Kushner, Pulitzer-Prize, Emmy, Tony award winning playwright in conversation with John Glore
October 2007
Katharine Weber "Triangle"
Sept 2007
Kirwan Rockefeller, Ph.D. "Visualize Confidence: How to Use Guided Imagery to Overcome Self-Doubt"
Sept 2007
Peggy Strong "Keeping Up Appearances: An Eighteenth Century Art"
June 2007
Susan Vreeland "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
May 2007
Larry Berman "Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent"
April 2007
Emily Wu & Larry Engelmann "Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos"
April 2007
John J. Gobbell "A Call to Colors"
March 2007
Craig Smith "How the Great Pyramid Was Built"
NOV 2006
Scott Turow "Limitations"
OCT 2006
Peter Greenberg "The Traveler's Diet: Eating Right and Staying Fit on the Road"
SEPT 2006
Carolyn See "There Will Never Be Another You"
MAY 2006
Barry Siegel "The Power of Storytelling"
Thomas Cole Edwards "Gin Clear Water"
APRIL 2006
Joshua Wolf Shenk "Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness"
MAR 2006
Lisa See "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"
Jonathan Kirsch "God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism"
FEB 2006
Walter Cruttenden "Lost Star of Myth and Time"
Trudi Alexy "The Marrano Legacy: A Contemporary Crypto-Jewish Priest Reveals Secrets of His Double Life"
JAN 2006
Barbara deMarco-Barrett "Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within"
NOV 2005
Judy Flynn "Gumboots, Lesson Plans and Hot Rugby Nights"
OCT 2005
Dr. James Pick "Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach"
Jonna Doolittle Hoppes "Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle"
SEPT 2005
Michael Kimmelman "The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa"
Wes "Scoop" Nisker "the Essential Crazy Wisdom"
Quang Pham "A Sense of Duty"
MAY 2005
Francine duPlessix Gray "Them: A Memoir of Parents"
MAR 2005
Frank Rich "Media, Culture & Politics" in collaboration with The Barclay Theatre
JAN 2005
James Hall & T. Jefferson Parker "Forest of the Night" & "California Girl" Franz Wisner "Honeymoon with My Brother"
OCT 2004
Victor Davis Hanson "Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think"
SEP 2004
T.C. Boyle "The Inner Circle"
Stephen Bauer "At Ease in the White House"
Peter Greenberg "Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective"
Hunter Drohojowska "Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe"
JUNE 2004
David Brooks "On Paradise Drive: How We Live (and Always Have) in the Future Tense"
MAR 2004
George Anders "Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard"
FEB 2004
Dr. Leonard Shlain "Sex, Time and Power"
JAN 2004
Al Martinez "I'll Be Damned if I'll Die in Oakland"
OCT 2003
Caroline Alexander "The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty"
SEPT 2003
Nathan Gephard & Mike Marriner "Road Trip Nation"
APRIL 2003
Dr. Atul Gawande "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science"
Nigella Lawson "Forever Summer"
Douglas Brinkley "Wheels For The World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress"
Sixth Annual Poetry Festival
MARCH 2003
Col. David Hackworth "Steel My Soldiers' Heart: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam"
FEBRUARY 2003
Cai Emmons - first salon hosted by the Foundation
JANUARY 2003
Wendy Wasserstein
OCTOBER 2002
Charmaine Craig "The Good Men" & Andrew Winer "The Color Midnight Made"
APRIL 2002
Avivah Zornberg "Fire in the Bones: The Golden Calf"
FEB 2002
Calvin Trillin "Tepper Isn't Going Out"
FALL & WINTER 2001
Ross King "Brunelleschi's Dome"
Mary Maynard "My Faraway Home"
Adrienne Sharp "White Swan, Black Swan"
APRIL 2001
William Least Heat-Moon on "River-Horse: Across America by Boat" Fifth Annual Poetry Festival
MARCH 2001
David Brooks "Bobos in Paradise"
JANUARY 2001
Michael Lewis "The New New Thing"
NOVEMBER 2000
Dava Sobel "Galileo's Daughter"
APRIL 2000
Fourth Annual Poetry Festival
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2000
Margot Livesey "The Missing World"
Maureen Stout "The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem"
OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1999
Julius Shulman "Architecture and its Photography"
Suzanne Muchnic "Odd Man in: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture"
Dominick Dunne "The Way We Lived Then"
Nathaniel Branden "My Years with Ayn Rand"
APRIL 1999
Third Annual Poetry Festival
Lesley Stahl "Reporting Live"
DECEMBER 1998
Sharon Wohlmuth & Carol Saline - "Best Friends Event"
NOVEMBER 1998
David Mas Masumoto "Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil"
OCTOBER 1998
Lucille deView in collaboration with UC Irvine's Writer's Conference on "A Summer with Hemingway's Twin"
MAY 1998
Gregory Benford "Cosm"
APRIL 1998
Second Annual Poetry Festival
FEBRUARY 1998
Frances Mayes "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy"
Marjorie Luesebrink (hypertext fiction author) on "Califia"
DECEMBER 1997
Susanne Pari "The Fortune Catcher"
NOVEMBER 1997
David Hackworth "Hazardous Duty"
Susan Dworkin "The Book of Candy: A Modern American Folk Musical"
SEPTEMBER 1997
Frances Kroll Ring "Frances Kroll Ring: Fitzgerald & Beyond"
MAY 1997
Linda Yablonsky "The Story of Junk"
APRIL 1997
First Poetry Festival
FEBRUARY-MARCH 1997
Wilton Barnhardt "Emma Who Saved My Life", "Gospel" and "Bobby Midas's Show World"
Gordon McAlpine "Joy in Mudville" and "The Persistence of Memory"
NOVEMBER 1996
Judy Rosener "America's Competitive Secret: Utilizing Women as a Management Strategy"
OCTOBER 1996
Nancy Jo Hoy "The Power to Dream: Interviews with Women in the Creative Arts"
JULY 1996
Michael Joyce & Carolyn Guyer (hypertext fiction authors)
JUNE 1996
Daniel Duane "Lighting Out: a Vision of California and the Mountains"
APRIL-MAY 1996
Jane Smiley "Moo"
Victor Villasenor "Wild Steps of Heaven"
Richard Selby "Microsoft Secrets"
Geoffrey Wolff "The Age of Consent"
FALL 1995
Lisa See
"On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family"
Irwin Gellman
"Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Summer Wells"
John Gobbell
"The Brutus Lie"
Jay Gummerman
"Chez Chance"