Famous Speakers
Brentwood School organizes and hosts the John Hutson Memorial Guest Lecture Series, an event where various notable speakers address a mixed audience of students, faculty, parents and members of the public. The Guest Lecture Series is name in honor of John Hutson, the former Chair of the Political Science and History Departments at Brentwood School. Past speakers in the John Hutson Memorial Guest Lecture Series include:
- Edward Albee - American playwright
- Dr. Maya Angelou - African-American poet
- Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biographer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt
- Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick - former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Senior Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute
- Frank McCourt - writer
- Leah Rabin - widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- Amy Tan - American novelist, of The Joy Luck Club fame
- Kurt Vonnegut - American novelist of Slaughterhouse-Five fame
- Leon Panetta - former White House Chief of Staff
- Joyce Carol Oates - American writer
- William Styron - American novelist (Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner)
- Tony Kushner - American playwright (Angels in America, Homebody/Kabul)
- Edward O. Wilson - American Biologist
- Alice Walker - American novelist of The Color Purple fame
- Alice Sebold - American novelist of The Lovely Bones and Lucky fame
- Eric Schlosser - best-selling author of Fast Food Nation
- Margaret Atwood- Canadian novelist of "The Handmaid's Tale" and other works
- Daniel H. Pink - American writer of A Whole New Mind
- Ira Glass - Host of Public Radio International's This American Life.
- Malcolm Gladwell - Canadian Author
Past speakers not part of the John Hutson Memorial Guest Lecture Series include:
- Orville Schell - Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Jason Rogers, Malakai Davis and Joanna Hayes - Members of the Brentwood School Community and participants in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
- Dr. Drew Pinsky (A.K.A. Dr. Drew) - board-certified Physician and Addiction Medicine Specialist as well as co-host of popular late-night radio show Loveline.
- Mark Mathabane - former tennis player, White House Fellow for the Clinton Administration, and novelist of Kaffir Boy fame.
- Antonio Villaraigosa - current Mayor of Los Angeles and former California State Assemblyman.
- Gus Lee - American author of China Boy fame.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - American actor
- Wesley Clark - Retired US Army four star general.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)