2009-2010 Season:

Khaled Hosseini, October 10, 2009
Geraldine Brooks, November 10, 2009
Pete Hamil, December 9, 2009
Richard Russo, March 16, 2010
Sara Gruen, April 27, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin, May 18, 2010
 

2007-2008 Season:

Erik Larson, October 16, 2007
Tracy Kidder, November 7, 2007
Frank Rich, December 18, 2007
Louise Erdrich, March 11, 2008
Mary Oliver, April 15, 2008
Michael Ondaatje, May 13, 2008

2006-2007 Season:

Joyce Carol Oates, October 3, 2006
John Feinstein, November 1, 2006
Barbara Ehrenreich, December 6, 2006
Jonathan Safran Foer, March 14, 2007
Azar Nafisi, April 12, 2007
Norman Mailer & John Buffalo Mailer, May 10, 2007

2005-2006 Season

Henry Petroski, October 11, 2005
Alexander McCall Smith, November 9, 2005
Suzan-Lori Parks, December 7, 2005
Dave Barry, March 1, 2006
Jhumpa Lahiri, April 5, 2006
Sara Paretsky, May 2, 2006

2004-2005 Season

Seamus Heaney, October 13, 2004
John Irving, November 17, 2004
Will Shortz, December 8, 2004
Sue Monk Kidd, March 17, 2005
Walter Dean Myers, April 20, 2005
Simon Winchester, May 12, 2005

2003-2004 Season

Anna Quindlen, October 15, 2003
Laurie Halse Anderson, November 5, 2003
Chris Casson Madden, December 10, 2003
Julia Glass, March 9, 2004
Billy Collins, April 14, 2004
Michael Chabon, May 12, 2004

2002-2003 Season

Ruth Reichl, October 3, 2002
Terry Gross, November 14, 2002
Robert Caro, December 11, 2002
John Edgar Wideman, March 19, 2003
Margaret Atwood, April 9, 2003
Dr. Oliver Sacks, May 8, 2003

2001-2002 Season

David Sedaris, November 8, 2001
Ursula Hegi, December 5, 2001
Amy Tan, February 28, 2002
Anita Shreve, March 12, 2002
Michael Cunningham, April 9, 2002
Richard Ford, May 9, 2002

2000-2001 Season

Walter Mosley, October 4, 2000
Frances Mayes, November 2, 2000
Frank McCourt, December 7, 2000
Bailey White, March 8, 2001
Barry Lopez, April 11, 2001
Robert Pinsky, May 9, 2001

1999-2000 Season

Tony Kushner, October 6, 1999
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., November 9, 1999
Jules Feiffer, December 9, 1999
Carlos Fuentes, March 16, 2000
John Barth, April 11, 2000
Anne Lamott, May 31, 2000

1998-1999 Season

William Styron, October 21, 1998
Russell Banks, November 18, 1998
Kaye Gibbons, February 11, 1999
Edna O'Brien, March 30, 1999
Derek Walcott, April 27, 1999
Stephen Jay Gould, May 18, 1999

1997-1998 Season

Doris Kearns Goodwin, October 8, 1997
John Updike, November 5, 1997
James McBride, December 17, 1997
Frank McCourt, March 24, 1998
Mary Karr, April 7, 1998
Edward Albee, May 12, 1998

1996-1997 Season

Pat Conroy, October 1, 1996
Ntozake Shang, November 6, 1996
David Halberstam, December 17, 1996
Oscar Hijuelos, March 5, 1997
Carol Shields, April 2, 1997
Diane Ackerman, May 13, 1997

1995-1996 Season

Calvin Trillin, October 11, 1995
John Berendt, November 15, 1995
Isabel Allende, March 12, 1996
Tobia Wolff & Tim O'Brien, April 16, 1996
Jamaica Kincaid, May 7, 1996