LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor at large of the Chicago Tribune, is past president of the National Books Critics Circle and has served on four Pulitzer Prize juries, three times as chair. She is the co-author, with Adam Cohen, of "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle... Read More →

The Bone and Sinew of the Land named  one of The Smithsonian Magazine's best history books of 2018!Anna-Lisa Cox is an award winning historian on the history of racism and race relations in nineteenth-century America. She is a non-resident Fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins... Read More →

James Donovan is the author of the bestselling books "The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation" and "A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn-the Last Great Battle of the American West." His newest book "Shoot for the Moon... Read More →

An ordained Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition, Duncan Ryuken Williams has spent years piecing together the story of the Japanese American community during World War II. A renowned scholar of Buddhism, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California... Read More →