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Dr. Eric Topol is a leading cardiologist who has embraced the study Colson Whitehead is the number 1 New York Times best-selling
of genomics and the latest advances in technology to treat chronic author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer
disease. As director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in Prize in Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award, Arthur C. Clark
La Jolla, California, Dr. Topol uses the study of genomics to propel Award and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New
game-changing medical research. The Institute combines clinical York Times Book Review. He is the author of The Noble Hustle, Zone
investigation with scientific theory, training physicians and scientists One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the
for research-based careers. He also serves on the board of the West Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. Whitehead is also the recipient
Wireless Health Institute, discovering how wireless technology can of the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships as well as a Man
change the future of health care. Booker finalist.
Wednesday 11:30 am–12:15 pm • Thursday 10:30-11:15 am Wednesday 11:30 am–12:15 pm • Thursday 10:30-11:15 am
Thursday 3–3:45 pm

Amor Towles, a former Wall Street director of research, is the best- Mishna Wolff is a writer and humorist living in Los Angeles. She
selling author of Rules of Civility. Towles’ second novel, A Gentleman is originally from Seattle, where she was raised in a blended African
in Moscow, was on The New York Times best-seller list for over twenty American family in a poor minority neighborhood. Her coming
weeks and was named one of the best books of 2016 by The Chicago of age memoir, I’m Down, is a hilarious dysfunctional family story
Tribune, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San about growing up in an all-black neighborhood and her struggle to
Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. The book is being translated into over fit in. After a modeling stint in New York she made her way back
twenty languages including Russian. to Los Angeles and onto the stage at The Upright Citizens Brigade
doing stand up comedy. She has been featured on VH1, Comedy
Wednesday 1–1:45 pm • Thursday 4–4:45 pm Central, Air America and NPR.
Wednesday 8:30–9:15 am • Wednesday 3–3:45 pm

Scott Turow is a best-selling author and attorney. He has written
nine novels, which have been translated into more than 25 languages
and have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Turow
continues to work as an attorney and is a partner in the Chicago
office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, concentrating on white-
collar criminal defense. He also devotes a substantial part of his time
to pro bono matters.
Wednesday 9:30–10:15 am • Wednesday 2–2:45 pm
Thursday 8:30–9:15 am • Thursday 1–1:45 pm
Thursday 3–3:45 pm

Ayelet Waldman is the best-selling author of A Really Good Day:
How Micro-dosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage,
and My Life, the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and
Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, and the Mommy-
Track Mystery series. Waldman was a Federal public defender and an
adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed
and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs.
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