Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Daley is the Director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles and she teaches academic writing at the California Institute of Technology. Her creative work and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Collagist, Crony, DUM DUM Zine, FORTH Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books... Read More →

Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of "Cod, Salt, Paper,” "The Basque History of the World,” "1968,” "The Big Oyster,” "International Night,” and others. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award... Read More →

Lutz is the author of "And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit" and "Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar," both published in 2016. His other books include "Crying," “Doing Nothing," "American Nervousness... Read More →

White has written for the Christian Science Monitor, Sierra, The Sun, Surfer's Journal, Orion, and other publications. His first book, "Talking on the Water" (Sierra Club Books), is a collection of interviews exploring our relationship with nature. His newest book is "Tides." White... Read More →