Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Pearce is a national reporter for the Los Angeles Times and frequently writes about violence, disasters, social movements and civil liberties. A University of Missouri graduate, he has covered news in the Midwest for a number of publications and previously wrote about technology... Read More →

Jones' career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s where he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. After Milk's death, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which memorializes over 85,000 Americans... Read More →

Kauffman is the author of "Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism.” She has spent more than thirty years immersed in grassroots movements as a participant, strategist, journalist, and observer. Kauffman was the mobilizing coordinator for the huge protests... Read More →

Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Along with Oliver Stone, Kovic was the co-screenwriter of the 1989 Academy Award-winning film based on Kovic's best-selling memoir... Read More →

Lowery is a reporter for the Washington Post, where he covers race, justice, law enforcement and politics. He is the paper's lead reporter on the Black Lives Matter protest movement and a member of the team awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of fatal police shootings. He... Read More →