We are proud to announce this year's keynote speaker

Padre alumnus and New York Times best selling author

Robert Dugoni '79

Robert Dugoni is the New York Times and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the "Tracy Crosswhite" police series, which has sold more than 12 million books worldwide. Along with the "Charles Jenkins" espionage series and the "David Sloane" legal thriller series, Robert is the author of "The Keera Duggan" legal series and the "William Shoemacher" historical series set in 1933 Seattle. His stand-alone novel, "The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell," is a Newsweek Favorite Book of All Time and Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year. Robert’s narration received an AudioFile Earphones Award.

Other novels include "The 7th Canon," "Damage Control," "The World Played Chess," and "The Cyanide Canary," a 2004 Washington Post Best Book of the Year. His novels have also been optioned for movies and television series.  Robert is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for Best Novel Set in the Pacific Northwest, a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Robert's books have been translated into more than thirty languages and sold in 40 countries.

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