Stephen Colbert currently hosts the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning #1 show in late night, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He previously hosted The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, following his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show. The Report received two Peabody Awards, two Grammy Awards, and five Emmy Awards. Colbert also serves as Executive Producer on the Comedy Central series Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News and Hell of a Week with Charlamagne tha God, and previously, Showtime’s Our Cartoon President and Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself on Hulu. Colbert has also authored five books, the most recent of which, Whose Boat Is This Boat?, reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. All proceeds from the book benefited the victims of Hurricane Florence and Michael, and most recently, COVID-19 relief.

Marlon James is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King; the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings; and The Book of Night Women and John Crow’s Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, his novels have won the American Book Award, the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Jamaica, James lives in New York City.

George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the Way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. Saunders’ latest collection, Liberation Day, was published on October 18th.