Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media, and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and is an award-winning columnist for the Jewish Journal. In the Jimmy Carter administration, he was chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F... Read More →

Muller, an award-winning correspondent and commentator, covered the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials for ABC and is a regular contributor to NPR’s Morning Edition. A professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, she wrote about her experiences as a journalist... Read More →

Ross is a professor of history at USC and director of the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He is the author of "Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America" and "Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped... Read More →

Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and is the publisher of Religion Dispatches, an award-winning online magazine of religion, politics, and culture. She edited "The Oxford Handbook on Religion and the American... Read More →