LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Professor Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Associate professor in sociology, and Chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA. He is author of three books: "Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America... Read More →

Adam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice. His books include the bestselling "King Leopold's Ghost" and most recently, "Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays." He has been a finalist twice for the National Book Critics... Read More →

Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is a professor of psychology at Stanford and a recipient of a 2014 MacArthur "genius" grant. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers. She is co-founder and co-director of SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions), a Stanford Cen... Read More →

L.A. Kauffman has been a grassroots organizer and movement journalist for more than thirty-five years. She was the mobilizing coordinator for some of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history"”the massive Iraq antiwar protests of 2003 and 2004"”and has played key roles in many... Read More →

Christopher Noxon is a journalist who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Los Angeles Magazine, and Salon. His book "Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook," was released earlier this year. Noxon splits his time between Los Angeles... Read More →