Past Authors
These events are organized by the NPC Book & Author Committee and you can pitch your author to them. These events are designed to sell books and are fundraisers for the National Press Club Journalism Institute. The Club will provide books for sale and signature by the author. There are two events per month. They can take place in any room in the Club and the programs are about one hour long and take place from 6:30-8:00 p.m. There is generally a modest admission charge to members and the general public to reserve a seat. The events are open to working press for coverage. This is the main program for authors who have current books and are on tour.
Events are sorted in reverse chronological order
Please note: this list is no longer being updated. The latest/most complete listing of past NPC Headliners can be found here.
April 2018
Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano - Fight Like a Girl
April 12, 2018
Sheila Tate - Lady in Red
April 4, 2018
March 2018
Jeff Fager & Bill Whitaker - 50 Years of 60 Minutes
March 27, 2018
Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy
March 15, 2018
Sherrilyn Ifill & Anthony Thompson - Race, Inequality, And The Law
March 6, 2018
Joanne Lipman - That's What She Said
March 1, 2018
February 2018
Jesse J. Holland - The Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther?
February 27, 2018
Joseph Rodota - The Watergate
February 21, 2018
Danni Starr - Empathy & Eyebrows
February 13, 2018
December 2017
Walter Isaacson - Leonardo Da Vinci
December 18, 2017
Lawrence O'Donnell - Playing With Fire
December 13, 2017
Donna Brazile - hacks
December 12, 2017
November 2017
Chris Matthews - Bobby Kennedy
November 8, 2017
August 2017
Sharyl Attkisson - The Smear
August 31, 2017
June 2017
Peter Baker - Obama: The Call Of History
June 29, 2017
Newt Gingrich - Understanding Trump
June 16, 2017
May 2017
Garrett Graff - Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While the Rest of Us Die
May 22, 2017
Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes - Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
May 18, 2017
David J. Garrow - Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
May 11, 2017
Laura Caldwell, John Mankiewicz & Jerry Miller - Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
May 1, 2017
March 2017
Paul Dickson - The Life and Legend of Baseball Great Leo Durocher
March 22, 2017
P.J. O’Rourke - How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016
March 16, 2017
Tom Rosenstiel - Shining City
March 2, 2017
January 2017
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh - Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
January 18, 2017
December 2016
Jay Solomon - The Iran Wars
December 14, 2016
October 2016
Chuck Raasch - Imperfect Union
October 20, 2016
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall - The Voting Rights War
October 18, 2016
September 2016
Gary Vikan - Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director
September 27, 2016
Frank Ahrens - Seoul Man
September 7, 2016
August 2016
Deborah Kalb - The President and Me: George Washington and The Magic Hat
August 27, 2016
David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
August 4, 2016
June 2016
Del Quentin Wilber - A Good Month for Murder
June 21, 2016
May 2016
Lauren Wright - On Behalf of the President
May 12, 2016
April 2016
Jay Newton-Small - Broad Influence
April 13, 2016
Peter Bergen - United States of Jihad
April 1, 2016
February 2016
Rod Nordland - The Lovers
February 10, 2016
January 2016
Tom Daschle & Trent Lott - Crisis Point
January 19, 2016
November 2015
2015 Book Fair & Authors Night
November 17, 2015
P.J. O'Rourke - Thrown Under The Omnibus
November 10, 2015
October 2015
Kevin Costner - The Explorers Guild
October 23, 2015
John Norris - Mary McGrory: The First Queen Of Journalism
October 15, 2015
August 2015
Eleanor Herman - Legacy of Kings
August 26, 2015
July 2015
Tom Young - The Hunters
July 14, 2015
June 2015
Ann Coulter - Adios, America
June 17, 2015
May 2015
Steve Inskeep - Jacksonland
May 28, 2015
Scott Simon - Unforgettable
May 5, 2015
April 2015
Rick Beyer & Elizabeth Sayles - The Ghost Army Of World War II
April 29, 2015
Dana Perino - And The Good News Is...
April 24, 2015
Henry Paulson - Dealing With China
April 17, 2015
March 2015
Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger - ISIS: The State Of Terror
March 24, 2015
Chen Guangcheng - The Barefoot Lawyer
March 19, 2015
February 2015
Pioneers of the Black Press
February 25, 2015
January 2015
John Lewis & Andrew Aydin
January 21, 2015
November 2014
Book Fair & Authors' Night
November 18, 2014
Sen. John McCain - Thirteen Soldiers
November 11, 2014
Jessica Fellowes - A Year in the Life of Downton Abbey
November 5, 2014
October 2014
Rebecca Frankel - War Dogs
October 29, 2014
John Byrne Cooke - On the Road with Janis Joplin
October 28, 2014
September 2014
Nicholas Kristof - A Path Appears
September 29, 2014
Tavis Smiley - Death of a King
September 25, 2014
August 2014
Louisa Lim - The People's Republic Of Amnesia
August 28, 2014
July 2014
Aneesh Chopra - Innovative State
July 22, 2014
Tom Young - Sand and Fire
July 15, 2014
Brad Thor - Act of War
July 9, 2014
Todd Purdum - An Idea Whose Time Has Come
July 8, 2014
June 2014
Marion Barry - Mayor for Life
June 19, 2014
Diana Gabaldon - Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
June 18, 2014
Bill & Willie Geist - Good Talk, Dad
June 5, 2014
May 2014
John C. McManus - The Dead And Those About To Die
May 2, 2014
Marlo Thomas - It Ain't Over... Till It's Over
May 2, 2014
April 2014
Paul Dickson - Authorisms
April 23, 2014
March 2014
Dave Barry - You Can Date Boys When You're 40
March 5, 2014
February 2014
Lara O'Brien - Chesca and the Spirit of Grace
February 22, 2014
Gregory Feifer - Russians
February 18, 2014
January 2014
James Carville & Mary Matalin - Love & War
January 11, 2014
December 2013
Dick Cheney - Heart
December 3, 2013
November 2013
Alan Greenspan - The Map & The Territory
November 6, 2013
October 2013
Piers Morgan - Shooting Straight
October 18, 2013
Chris Pan Launois - L'Americain
October 7, 2013
September 2013
Richard Dawkins - An Appetite For Wonder
September 30, 2013
Seth Goldman - Mission in a Bottle
September 17, 2013
Matt Apuzzo & Adam Goldman - Enemies Within
September 10, 2013
August 2013
Dave Sheinin - The Promise
August 21, 2013
July 2013
Shirley Jones - A Memoir
July 26, 2013
Tom Young - The Warriors
July 16, 2013
June 2013
John Hendricks - A Curious Discovery
June 27, 2013
Steve Berry - The King's Deception
June 19, 2013
Walter Cronkite IV & Maurice Isserman - Cronkite's War
June 4, 2013
May 2013
Jessica Buchanan & Erik Landemalm - Impossible Odds
May 22, 2013
Buzz Aldrin - Mission to Mars
May 10, 2013
Richard Belzer - Hit List
May 6, 2013
April 2013
Simeon Booker - Shocking the Conscience
April 9, 2013
Tom Dunkel - Color Blind
April 4, 2013
Gary Shapiro - Ninja Innovation
April 3, 2013
February 2013
William C. Moyers - Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery
February 27, 2013
John Mackey - Conscious Capitalism
February 5, 2013
Dave Barry - Insane City
February 1, 2013
January 2013
Paul Dickson - Words from the White House
January 15, 2013
December 2012
Jake Tapper - The Outpost
December 5, 2012
November 2012
35th Annual NPC Book Fair
November 13, 2012
October 2012
Álvaro Uribe Vélez - No Lost Causes
October 10, 2012
September 2012
John Perkins - Hoodwinked
September 16, 2012
Jeffrey Toobin - The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
September 19, 2012
Juan González & Joseph Torres - News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
September 17, 2012
August 2012
James Srodes - On Dupont Circle
August 16, 2012
July 2012
Tom Young - The Renegades
July 24, 2012
John Dramani Mahama - My First Coup d'Etat
July 12, 2012
Kirk Lippold - Front Burner
July 10, 2012
June 2012
Lizz Winstead - Lizz Free Or Die
June 14, 2012
May 2012
Timothy Gay - Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
May 22, 2012
Tom Curley & John Maxwell Hamilton - Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press
May 9, 2012
April 2012
Paul Dickson - Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
April 24, 2012
Alexander McCall Smith - The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
April 14, 2012
Josh Meyer - The Hunt for KSM
April 11, 2012
March 2012
Thomas Mallon - Watergate
March 2, 2012
February 2012
Eleanor Herman & King Peggy of Ghana - King Peggy
February 22, 2012
Baratunde Thurston - How to Be Black
February 13, 2012
December 2011
Michael Dirda - On Conan Doyle
December 12, 2011
November 2011
Book Fair & Authors' Night
November 15, 2011
Dennis Pogue - Bourbon and Book Event
November 7, 2011
October 2011
Alan Bjerga - Endless Appetites
October 17, 2011
Terry Pratchett - Snuff: A Novel of Discworld
October 14, 2011
September 2011
Mitch Daniels - Keeping the Republic
September 26, 2011
August 2011
Juan Williams - Muzzled
August 3, 2011
Bob Graham - Keys to the Kingdom
August 1, 2011
June 2011
Marvin and Deborah Kalb - Haunting Legacy
June 24, 2011
Neil Gaiman - American Gods: 10th Anniversary
June 23, 2011
Michael Brown - Deadly Indifference
June 21, 2011
Rick Beyer - The Greatest Music Stories Never Told
June 14, 2011
May 2011
Richard North Patterson - The Devil's Light
May 4, 2011
April 2011
Governor Deval Patrick - A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life
April 13, 2011
Harold Holzer - How the Civil War Changed Journalism
April 11, 2011
February 2011
Tim Johnson - Tragedy in Crimson
February 7, 2011
December 2010
Lethal Warriors
December 13, 2010
November 2010
Book Fair and Authors Night
November 9, 2010
September 2010
Jeff Sharlet - C Street
September 27, 2010
Ingrid Betancourt
September 22, 2010
Examining the Tea Party
September 10, 2010
July 2010
Jim Michaels - A Chance in Hell
July 12, 2010
June 2010
Andrew Young & Kabir Sehgal
June 16, 2010
Fred Thompson
June 14, 2010
May 2010
Ben Bradlee & Quinn Bradlee
May 18, 2010
A Mosque in Munich
May 17, 2010
Roxana Saberi Memoir
April 7, 2010
March 2010
Lynne Olson
March 23, 2010
January 2010
Leslie Sanchez
January 25, 2010
Mika Brzezinski
January 12, 2010
Denise Austin
January 5, 2010
December 2009
'Cousin Brucie' Event
December 10, 2009
Deborah Tannen on Sisters
December 2, 2009
November 2009
Book Fair & Authors' Night
November 17, 2009
October 2009
Author Neil Sheehan
October 7, 2009
Used Book Sale
October 2, 2009
September 2009
Tom Ridge - Test of Our Times
September 28, 2009
Journalism's Roving Eve
September 14, 2009
August 2009
Mystery Writer Donna Andrews
August 5, 2009
Frank Aukofer Book Event
August 3, 2009
July 2009
Solomon "FDR v. Constitution"
July 9, 2009
Sen. DeMint
July 8, 2009
June 2009
An Evening with "Morning Joe"
June 18, 2009
David Ignatius - The Increment
June 16, 2009
Michael Connelly
June 3, 2009
May 2009
Elizabeth Edwards
May 21, 2009
Chris Matthews - Hardball Life
May 4, 2009
April 2009
Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
April 7, 2009
Gourmet Getaways Book Dinner
April 7, 2009
February 2009
Sen. McGovern on Lincoln
February 13, 2009
Why Him? Why Her?
February 11, 2009
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
February 4, 2009
January 2009
Fredriksen & O'Donnell
January 28, 2009