DREAM BIG. LAUGH OFTEN
Looking for the way to happiness? Find shared wisdom from a diverse array of luminaries in The Secrets of Happiness.
The year and name of the colleges where the contributors spoke are listed below.
- GENEVIELE BELL Director of the User Experience Group at Intel (2008, UC Berkeley School of Information.)
- WENDELL BERRY Esteemed author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays (2007, Bellarmine University)
- KEN BURNS Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who directed and produced the The Civil War (2006, Georgetown University)
- THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author (2005, University of Maine)
- TESS GERRITSEN Bestselling author of The Bone Garden and other suspense novels (2007, University of Maine)
- DANA GIOLA Award-winning poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (2007, Stanford University)
- MOLLY IVINS Syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Who Let the Dog In? (2003, Scripps College)
- BARBARA KINGSOLVER Bestselling author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2008, Duke University)
- RAY KURZWELL A leading pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (2005, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
- DAVID LEVERING LEWIS Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of W.E.B. Du Bois (2004, Bates College)
- DAVID McCULLOUGH Author of the Putlizer Prize-winning John Adams (2008, Boston College)
- HAROLD PRINCE Producer and director of legendary Broadway musicals (2007, Gettysburg College)
- ANNA QUINDLEN Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (2006, Colby College)
- KAREN TSE Founder and CEO of International Bridges to Justice (2007, Scripps College)
- MUHAMMAD YUNUS Founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize (2008, MIT)
