LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Alan Zarembo is an assistant foreign editor. He has also been a projects and investigative reporter with a focus on medicine, science and the military. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times in 2003, he was the Mexico City bureau chief for Newsweek magazine and a freelance journalist... Read More →

Steve Chapple is an award-winning author of many books and writer of the national newspaper column Intellectual Capital. His current book is "Breakpoint: Reckoning With America's Environmental Crises," with co-author Jeremy B.C. "Kayaking the Full Moon" was a New York Times Notable... Read More →

Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist of the award-winning graphic novels "Mom's Cancer" and "Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?" "A Fire Story," an expansion of his viral web comic, chronicles his experience of losing his home and every possession that didn't fit into the... Read More →

Beth Gardiner is an American environmental journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. She is a former Associated Press writer and has lived and worked in badly polluted London since 2000. "Choked: Life and Breath in the Age... Read More →

Heather Hansman is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Outside, California Sunday, Smithsonian, and many others. "Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West" is her first book. After a decade of raft guiding across the United States, she lives in Seattle.