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RMWF MMXVIII WRITERS Douglas Brunt was President and CEO of Authentium, Inc., an
Internet security company. He now writes full time and has published
three New York Times best-selling novels: Ghosts of Manhattan, The
Means and Trophy Son. A Philadelphia native, he lives in New York
Dave Barry is the author of numerous books and a nationally City with his wife Megyn Kelly and their three children.
syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to Wednesday 10:30–11:15 am • Thursday 11:30 am–12:15 pm
2005. Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988. This
will be his fourth appearance at the RMWF thanks to the generous
support of Jan Salta.
Wednesday 2–2:45 pm • Thursday 9:30–10:15 am
Thursday 3–3:45 pm
Elizabeth Cobbs holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair in American
History at Texas A&M University and is a research fellow at Stanford’s
Hoover Institution. She is an historian, commentator, and author of
seven books including two novels, a textbook, and three non-fiction
Dr. Gregory Berns is the Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics works. Cobbs is the author of American Umpire, which was made into
at Emory University, where he directs the Center for Neuropolicy
and Facility for Education & Research in Neuroscience. Dr. Berns is a film of the same name and The Hamilton Affair.
the author of numerous books on neuroscience including How Dogs Wednesday 1–1:45 pm • Wednesday 4–4:45 pm
Love Us and What It’s Like to be a Dog based on his groundbreaking Thursday 10:30–11:15 am
research using fMRI to decode what dogs really think.
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am • Thursday 2-2:45 pm
Linda Fairstein, America’s foremost legal expert on crimes of
sexual assault and domestic violence, led the Sex Crimes Unit of
the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan for twenty-five years. A
H.W. Brands is a master storyteller and New York Times best-selling Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she is a graduate
historian. He is the author of 25 books on U.S. history and biography. of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law.
He is professor of history and government at the University of Texas Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, introduced the critically acclaimed
at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. His works character of Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan Assistant District
have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. This is his Attorney for the Sex Crimes Unit. Deadfall is Fairstein’s nineteenth
third appearance at the RMWF. novel in the series.
Wednesday 9:30–10:15 am • Wednesday 1–1:45 pm Thursday 8:30–9:15 am • Thursday 1–1:45 pm
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Thursday 1–1:45 pm
William Finnegan is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning
Douglas Brinkley is an award-winning historian and best-selling author. His books include Cold New World, A Complicated War,
author. Brinkley is currently a professor of history at Rice University, Dateline Soweto, Crossing the Line, and Barbarian Days. He has twice
a CNN Presidential Historian and a New York Times best-selling been a National Magazine Award finalist and has won numerous
author. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past journalism awards, including two Overseas Press Club awards since
master.” In addition, he is a member of the Council on Foreign 2009. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize
Relations and The Century Club. for Autobiography. Finnegan has been staff writer at The New Yorker
Wednesday 10:30–11:15 • Wednesday 4–4:45 pm since 1987.
Thursday 10:30–11:15 am • Thursday 11:30 am–12:15 pm Wednesday 10:30–11:15 am • Wednesday 3–3:45 pm
Thursday 2–2:45 pm Thursday 9:30–10:15 am
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