LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Sewell Chan is the deputy managing editor for news for the L.A Times. He previously worked for 14 years at the New York Times, where he was a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor. He was part of a team of journalists awarded the... Read More →

Julissa Arce is a best-selling author of "My (Underground) American Dream." She was named one of People en Español's 25 Most Powerful Woman of 2017. She is a leading voice in the fight for social justice, immigrant rights and education equality. Her second book, "Someone Like Me... Read More →

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist that has been... Read More →

Lauren Hilgers lived in Shanghai, China for six years. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Wired, Businessweek, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York with her husband and their daughter. Her new book is "Patriot Number One: American Dreams in... Read More →