The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.
Jonathan Hunt, a teacher and librarian, writes about young adult literature for Horn Book magazine, presents seminars for the Bureau of Education & Research, and has served on the 2006 Newbery and the 2008 Printz committees.
Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak was a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times best seller. Her most recent novel is Wintergirls. Suzanne Phillips is a special education English teacher in San Diego. Chloe Doe was her acclaimed debut novel. Burn, her provocative second novel, dares readers to look at the behavior that provokes violence in a suburban high school.
Nate Powell is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His work includes contributions to the Eisnernominated Syncopated anthologies. Swallow Me Whole is a 2008 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Young Adult Literature. He lives in Indiana.
Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, is the author of several books, including her newest, Peace, Locomotion. Woodson was the recipient of a 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Young Adult Fiction for Miracle's Boys.
Mr. Chris Mitchell, Ms. Brett Paesel, Mr. Peter Birkenhead
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Ms. Emily Rapp
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Los Angeles Times
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Ms. Janelle Brown, Mr. Jennifer Gilmore, Ms. Cathleen Schine, Ms. Kate Walbert
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Ms. Veronique de Turenne
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Los Angeles Times
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Todd HasakLowy, Lee Konstantinou, Fiona Maazel, Jerry Stahl
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Jim Ruland
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer, discusses making sudden, instinctive judgments, as written about in his new book, Blink....
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Gustavo Arellano, Chris Ayres, Rachel Resnick, Marion Winik
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Erika Schickel
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Two funny and smart women explore the myriad challenges women face today — at work, in parenting, in love, and in aging — and share lessons from their experiences....
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Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)...
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Ms. Aimee Bender, Mr. Lev Grossman, Mr. Victor LaValle
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Mr. Scott Timberg
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Los Angeles Times
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Paul Levine, Lisa Scottoline, John Shannon, Stuart Woods
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Gary Phillips
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Los Angeles Times
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The Irish writers and good friends discuss their newest novels, each of which is set in New York City and was chosen by Amazon as one of the Top 4 Books of 2009....
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David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula: How we Became a Gourmet Nation, is joined by a panel of connoisseurs to explain the American food revolution....
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Mr. Sean Carroll, Mr. Timothy Ferris, Mr. D. T. Max, Mr. Terry McDermott
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Ms. Margaret Wertheim
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Tim Gunn, cohost of the Emmynominated reality show Project Runway, talks to NY1 correspondent Budd Mishkin about fashion, design and lifestyle....
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Paul Attanasio's nuanced screenplays for Quiz Show and Donnie Brasco earned him Oscar nominations, and he recently wrote The Good German for Steven Soderbergh....
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