LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Robert Lee Hotz is a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal where he covers new research and its impact on society. He is also president of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which funds independent journalism projects around the world. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence... Read More →

Author of What the Eyes Don't See, a first-hand account of the Flint water crisis, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is an associate professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University. She is also the founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children's... Read More →

Eliza Griswold is the author of "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam," which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her translations of Afghan women's folk poems, "I Am the Beggar of the World," was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry... Read More →

Beth Macy is the author of three New York Times-bestselling books. Her latest book, "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America," is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal and was described as a "masterwork of narrative nonfiction" by The New York Times... Read More →