Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Kraft is deputy managing editor of the L.A. Times, is responsible for the front page, the Column One feature and major investigative, explanatory and narrative reporting projects. During more than two decades at The Times, Kraft has been a national and foreign correspondent as well... Read More →

Scheer is a veteran political journalist. He conducted the famous Playboy interview with Jimmy Carter and went on to interview Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and other prominent political figures. In the late 1960s, he was Vietnam correspondent and editor of Ramparts... Read More →

Southers is a former FBI Special Agent, Professor of the Practice of Governance and Director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies in the Safe Communities Institute at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC. A counterterrorism expert and security analyst, he is a former presidential... Read More →

Wilentz is an award-winning journalist and author. Former New Yorker Jerusalem correspondent and long-time contributing editor to The Nation, she won the National Book Critics Circle 2013 Award for her memoir “Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti.” Her work has appeared... Read More →