Top Bestsellers Speakers
Top Bestsellers Speakers
Amy Sohn
For three years Amy Sohn wrote the autobiographical dating diary, "Female Trouble," in New York Press, which elicited loads of bitter invective from readers and shamed her parents at cocktail parties. After six years as a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she wrote about sex, relationships, and parenting, she is now at work on her third novel for Simon & Schuster, to be published...
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality...
Bob Woodward
Called the most famous investigative reporter in America by the New York Times, Bob Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of...
Carrie Fisher
Multitalented actress, author and screenwriter, Carrie Fisher is a true survivor whose victory over substance abuse, outspoken activism on behalf of the mentally ill, and hilarious takes on Hollywood and motherhood have made her a perennially popular figure on the lecture circuit. Carrie has been a compelling force in American culture for decades. From her feature film debut opposite...
Christopher McDougall
When Christopher McDougall first ventured down into Mexico's Copper Canyons, he was a broken-down, ex-athlete who'd been told by top sports scientists that his body was too brittle for even a basic sport like running. But after encountering the Tarahumara Indians, he learned how to access such unexpected natural ability that within nine months, he was able to join the Tarahumara for a 50-mile...
Christopher Rice
At age 30, Christopher Rice is the author of four New York Times best-selling novels, the most recent of which is the critically acclaimed thriller, Blind Fall. The members of Insight Out Book Club selected Blind Fall as the Best Book of 2008. His first novel, A Density of Souls, which New York Magazine described as “Less Than Zero meets Donna Tartt spiced with Stephen King,” was published when...
David Grann
David Grann is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His first book, “The Lost City of Z,” described his perilous journey into the Amazon to discover a glittering ancient civilization and the fate of a missing British explorer. The book, which the New York Times called “suspenseful,” “rollicking,” and “magical,” became an international bestseller and...
David Simon
David Simon, 49, is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. Born in Washington, he came to Baltimore in 1983 to work as a crime reporter at The Baltimore Sun. While at the paper, he reported and wrote two works of narrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the former an account of a...
Eric Ries
New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned. He cofounded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. He is a frequent speaker at business events, has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy, and is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard...
Eve Ensler
EVE ENSLER, playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, translated into over 45 languages and performed in over 130 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment.) Her experience performing THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement...
Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone on November 23, 1980. When he was eleven, Ishmael’s life, along with the lives of millions of other Sierra Leoneans, was derailed by the outbreak of a brutal civil war. After his parents and two brothers were killed, Ishmael was recruited to fight as a child soldier. He was thirteen.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an award winning actress and critically-acclaimed and best-selling author of seven books: Is There Really a Human Race?, It's Hard to Be Five, I'm Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go?, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Olds Memoir of Her Youth, and Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, which was NY Times bestseller for..._website.jpg)
Jeff Zaslow
Through his Wall Street Journal column and bestselling books, Jeffrey Zaslow has told the stories of some of the most inspirational people of our time. The Last Lecture, written with Randy Pausch, has been translated into 48 languages, and was #1 on best-seller lists worldwide. Five million copies are in print in English alone, and the book has remained on The New York Times best-seller list...
Nathaniel Philbrick
Champion sailor, award-winning scholar and bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick is a lively and illuminating speaker on all things historical and maritime. Nathaniel first gained fame for his nonfiction classic In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which familiarized modern readers with the harrowing true story behind Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; the gripping...
Peter Guber
Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives and entrepreneurs in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of...
Rick Reilly
RICK REILLY, 50, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year 11 times. He is the new back-page columnist for ESPN The Magazine, and a featured columnist for ESPN.com, as well an essayist for ESPN SportsCenter and ABC Sports...
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages...
Tim Weiner
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Tim Weiner has covered soldiers, spies, terrorism, war and revolution for 25 years. He has reported for The New York Times from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cuba, Haiti, and many other nations around the world. His history of the CIA, “Legacy of Ashes,” is an international bestseller, translated into 24 languages, and featured on the...
Tony Hsieh
In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped Zappos grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazine's annual "Best Companies to Work For"...
Rory Freedman
For five years, Rory was an agent at Ford Models in New York—the most prestigious modeling agency in the world. Deciding to abandon her lucrative career and six-figure income to become an animal rights activist, Rory soon became a #1 New York Times best selling author. With her friend Kim Barnouin doing the research, Rory wrote and provided the “voice” for Skinny Bitch.
Bestsellers
Bestsellers
CAA Speakers represents some of the best-selling authors in the world. These are men and women who have been able to break through the crowded publishing market and enjoy multi-million unit sales not only on a single novel or non-fiction release, but often numerous books over the course of many years.
Prolific and engaging, the bestselling authors of CAA Speakers specialize in reaching a diverse audience. Speaking before any number of different audiences, in both college and corporate settings, they share stories based on their own books - or their own experiences about their own journey as a writer.
For more information about booking a bestselling author for your next special event or corporate meeting, contact CAA Speakers today.