Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Lopez is a California native who has been an L.A. Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for his reporting and column writing at seven newspapers and four news magazines, and was a 2011 Pulitzer finalist for his columns on elder care. He... Read More →

Geffen has been a civil rights attorney for most of her career advocating for elderly and disabled clients. After teaching as an Elder Law Professor at Loyola Law School and serving as in- house counsel for a major nursing home corporation based in Southern California, Susan received... Read More →

Straight, a recipient of the L.A. Times 2013 Robert Kirsch Award, has published eight novels, including "Between Heaven and Here" and "Highwire Moon.” Her new novel, "The Shipwreck Bed,” will be published in 2017, and a memoir, A "Sunday Kind of Love,” will be published in 2018... Read More →

Wallace, Ph.D. is professor and chairperson of the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is a leading scholar nationally on aging in communities of color and has... Read More →