Who would you love to see as National Lifelong Learning Day keynote speaker?

88 votes
Mitch Albom: Best-selling author ("Tuesdays with Morrie")
 
7% / 6 votes
Mark Bittman: New York Times Columnist and author of several cookbooks
 
3% / 3 votes
Bill Bryson: Best-selling author ("A Short History of Nearly Everything")
 
22% / 19 votes
Ken Burns: Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
 
17% / 15 votes
Malcolm Gladwell: Best-selling author ("The Tipping Point")
 
9% / 8 votes
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer ("Lincoln)
 
18% / 16 votes
Michael Pollan: Professor and best-selling author ("The Omnivore’s Dilemma")
 
9% / 8 votes
Gloria Steinem: Feminist, journalist, and social and political activist
 
13% / 11 votes
Calvin Trillin: Journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and author
 
1% / 1 vote
Simon Winchester: Best-selling author ("The Professor and the Madman")
 
1% / 1 vote


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