Dylan Baker is an actor whose many film and television credits include Inside Man, Hunters, Happiness, The Hot Zone: Anthrax, Social Distance, Blindspot, I’m Dying Up Here, The Good Fight and The Good Wife, Homeland, Little Women, Spider-Man 2 & 3, Selma, Confirmation, Kings, Damages, and The Americans. His theater credits include La Bete, for which he was nominated a Tony Award, The Audience with Helen Mirren, the Broadway revival of The Front Page, Bernhardt/Hamlet, and most recently, Medea at BAM. In addition to his acting credits, he directed the 2014 film, 23 Blast. Baker is also an audiobook narrator and was honored with the Audie Award for his reading of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. He can be heard on Marvel’s Wastelanders podcast series.

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection, including her novel Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. Her latest novel, The Candy House, was published in April 2022.

Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list, in hardcover, for more than two years. The book, a memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. To date, it has been translated into more than 45 languages. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted Educated the Nonfiction Book of the Year. For her staggering impact, Time Magazine named Westover one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019. Westover holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2019 she was the Rosenthal Writer in Residence at Harvard University.