Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

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 →

Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing in quantum mechanics, gravitation, and cosmology. He is the author of several books, including "The Big Picture,” "The Particle at the End of the Universe," and "From Eternity to Here.” He frequently consults for film... Read More →

Along with being a 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize finalist in Science & Technology for his "biography" of light, “Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age,” Watson is the author of four acclaimed books on American history, including "Freedom Summer," "Sacco and Vanzetti... Read More →

Weschler, a creative nonfiction writer, was a staff writer at The New Yorker for over twenty years. He has written several books including, "Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder," a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Weschler is the director of the New York Institute for Humanities at NYU. His... Read More →