LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Taylor co-edits The National Book Review (thenationalbookreview.com) with Adam Cohen, her co-author on "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation," and is working on a book on Reconstruction-era America. Chair of multiple Pulitzer Prize juries... Read More →

Butler is a writer and theater director, most recently of "The Trump Card," a meditation on the peculiar rise of Donald Trump. Butler also wrote and directed "Real Enemies," which was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and named one of the top ten live events of 2015... Read More →

Fraser is the editor of the Library of America edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books and theauthor of "Rewilding the World” and “God's Perfect Child." Her writing has appeared in The New York Review ofBooks, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times... Read More →

Kois is an editor and writer for Slate's culture section and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He's the former culture editor at Slate, where he launched the Slate Book Review. His previous book was "Facing Future," about the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole... Read More →

Krefft is a former magazine and newspaper journalist covering the entertainment industry. She has a BA in English and an MA in Communication, both from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Her latest book "The Man Who Made the Movies" received grants... Read More →