Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Nolan is co-editor of "Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald" and the author of "Ross Macdonald: A Biography.” He is crime-fiction columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Bagge is the 2014 USA Rockefeller Fellow in Literature, Harvey Award-winning author of the comic series “Hate,” and contributing editor to Reason magazine. Bagge got his start in comics in the R. Crumb-edited magazine “Weirdo.” Drawn & Quarterly has published two biographies... Read More →

Gooch is the author of "Smash Cut" and "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor,” which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NYT bestseller and Notable Book of the Year. A Guggenheim Biography fellow, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and... Read More →

Morris is an author of biographies and narrative nonfiction. Aside from his new work on Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, his books include the New York Times Bestselling "Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press," which was awarded the Benjamin Hooks... Read More →