Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Taylor, literary editor at large of the Chicago Tribune, is the author (with Adam Cohen) of “American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley and his Battle for Chicago and the Nation.” Past president of the National Book Critics Circle, she has also taught at Mount Holyoke College, was... Read More →

Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child. She studied art and legal studies and at one point wanted to be a civil rights lawyer, but became a public school teacher instead. She lives in Berkeley with her son, her husband, and her mother. “The Best We... Read More →

Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, "Dead Boys" (Little A, 2016), and in 2016 she was named Critic at Large for the Los... Read More →

Zhang, author of “Accomplice to Memory,” grew up in upstate New York, lived in China and Hong Kong, and now makes her home in Western Massachusetts. She is a writer of hybrid non/fiction stories and forms, with a focus on Chinese and American identities and communities across... Read More →