2026 Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Speaker Books

Frances Dinkelspiel

  • Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
  • Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Names Isaias Hellman Created Californi

Anthony Doerr

  • All the Light We Cannot See
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
  • Four Seasons in Rome

David Eagleman

  • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
  • The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World (co-authored by Anthony Brandt)
  • The Brain: The Story of You
  • Brain & Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (co-authored by Jonathan Downar)
  • Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
  • The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters
  • Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (co-authored by Richard E. Cytowic)
  • Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives

Jonathan Gienapp

  • Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique
  • The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

Christopher Impey

  • How it Began: A Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Universe
  • Humble Before the Void
  • World Without End: Expoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity

Scott James

  • Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-year Search for Truth

Markos Kounalakis

  • Freedom isn’t Free: The Price of World Order

Peter Mancall

  • Contested Continent
  • Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
  • The Trials of Thomas Morton

Kliph Nesteroff

  • Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
  • Sorry, We’re Funny (publication date October 2026)
  • The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
  • We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy

David Pogue

  • Apple: The First 50 Years
  • How to Prepare for Climate Change
  • Pogue’s Basics: Tech

Tina Seelig

  • Creativity Rules
  • What I Wish I Knew About Luck
  • What I Wish I Knew About Luck When I Was 20

Irena Smith

  • The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays
  • Troika: Three Generations, Three Days, and a Very American Road Trip

Jeremi Suri

  • Civil War By Other Means
  • Henry Kissinger and the American Century
  • The Impossible Presidency