Join three acclaimed authors as they reveal how to investigate hidden histories, chase scientific mysteries, and shape real events into vivid, page-turning narratives. Learn how rigorous research, storytelling craft, and curiosity fuel their adventurous nonfiction.

David Baron is a prizewinning author, journalist, broadcaster, and public speaker, who writes about science and the American West. A former science correspondent for NPR, he comes to the festival with "The Martians," a look at America's fascination with alien beings in the early 1900s....

Olivia Campbell is The New York Times bestselling author of "Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine" and "Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History....

Nathalia Holt, Ph.D., is The New York Times bestselling author of "Rise of the Rocket Girls," "The Beast in the Clouds," "The Queens of Animation," "Wise Gals," and "Cured." She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, PBS, and Time....


