About Scott Simon

We are delighted to welcome Scott Simon as our Keynote Speaker. The host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday and a Peabody- Award-winning radio journalist, Mr. Simon has traveled the world reporting on everything from wars and disasters to opening nights. He has interviewed the most interesting personalities of the times.

Mr. Simon also is an accomplished author. His first book, Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan, was published in 2000. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, the 2002 Barnes and Noble Sports Book of the Year, was reissued in 2007 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinsons' entry into the major leagues. Pretty Birds, his 2005 novel about teenage girls during the siege of Sarajevo, was acclaimed as "the start of a brilliant new career." His next novel, a political comedy titled Windy City, will be published in March 2008.