Authors 2022

is the author or coauthor of five bestselling books, most notably All the President’s Men, written with Bob Woodward. He, Woodward, and the Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking and investigating the Watergate story, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and set the standard for modern investigative reporting. He is also author of the definitive biographies of Pope John Paul II and Hillary Clinton and a memoir of his family’s experiences during the McCarthy era. He is currently an on-air political analyst for CNN and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.

ALAN CUMMING’s many awards for his stage and screen work include the Tony, Olivier, BAFTA, and Emmy. He is the author of two children’s books, a book of photographs and stories, a novel, and the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, Not My Father’s Son. He is a podcaster (Alan Cumming’s Shelves) and an amateur barman (NYC’s Club Cumming). Find out more at alancumming.com, @alancumming on Twitter, and @alancummingsnaps on Instagram.

Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished journalist and bestselling historian, has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he serves as the director of cyber initiatives for The Aspen Institute and is a contributor to WIRED, CNN, and POLITICO. He’s written for publications from Esquire to Rolling Stone to The New York Times, and edited two of Washington’s most prestigious magazines, Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine. Graff is the author of multiple books, including The Threat Matrix, the national bestseller Raven Rock, and the New York Times bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky.

is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Perry is the author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation. She is also the author of Breathe: A Letter to My Sons; Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation; and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem. Perry, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago, lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons.  

is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of Platoon, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killer, Midnight Express, and many other films.

is Books Editor for O, the Oprah Magazine and oprahmag.com.  She is a curator/coordinator of Oprah’s Book Club with Apple. As a lifelong member of the book industry, Leigh has worked as an editor and publicity director.  Among the authors she’s worked with are Al Gore, Steve Martin, Alice Walker, Terry Gross, Lou Reed, Jimmy Buffett, Gloria Naylor, Bill Maher, and many others.  She began her career as a copy aide for the book reviewing section of The Washington Post. She lives in Maplewood New Jersey and is the mother of two.

is a writer and producer from Highland Park, Illinois. He attended Ithaca College in New York from 1988 to 1992.  He relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1993 to pursue a career in screenwriting. After over ten years of struggle and rejection, Allan broke through with the script THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK in 2004.  

Since then, Allan has been working nonstop as a screenwriter and producer.  As a script doctor, he’s written on over 40 studio movies and 6 television pilots for every major studio and television network.  He’s represented by William Morris Endeavor. 

Allan’s writing credits include THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE  (Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro)  21 (Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth) THE SWITCH (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Anniston)  WALLSTREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (directed by Oliver Stone)  THE DILEMMA (directed by Ron Howard) JUST GO WITH IT (Adam Sandler and Nicole Kidman) ROCK OF AGES (Tom Cruise and Russell Brand) THE SPACE BETWEEN US (Gary Oldman) HERE COMES THE BOOM (Kevin James)   COLLATERAL BEAUTY (Will Smith) THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK (Jeff Bridges)

is a bestselling author and publicist. In 2018 he founded Joseph Papa Public Relations, focusing on books and nonprofits. He currently serves on the board of directors for The Library of Virginia Foundation, Studio Two Three (Richmond, VA), and Lamb Center for Arts and Healing (Hopewell, VA). With over 15 years in the publishing industry, he has managed campaigns for over 50 New York Times bestselling books (including Alan’s!). He is the author of the bestselling book Elizabeth Taylor: A Passion for Life (HarperDesign, 2011). 

became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company in November 2012. He has directed the Company’s strategy and presided over an expansion of its digital and global operations. Under his leadership, digital subscriptions have grown from 500,000 to nearly four million. The Times has successfully branded out into other digital products like Cooking and Crosswords, has launched one of the world’s most successful podcasts and recently premiered “The Weekly”, a new TV news program for FX and Hulu.

Before joining the Times Company, Mr. Thompson served as director-general of the BBC from 2004, where he reshaped the organization to meet the challenge of the digital age, ensuring that it remained a leading innovator with the launch of services such as the BBC iPlayer. He also oversaw a transformation of the BBC itself, driving productivity and efficiency through the introduction of new technologies and bold organizational redesign.

His book, “Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?” which is based on lectures he gave as a visiting professor at Oxford University, was published in the UK and US in September 2016.  Mark Thompson was educated at Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford.