LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Smith is a writer and historian, and the author of four books, including the novel "Letters from Yellowstone." Her most recent book, "Yellowstone and the Smithsonian: Centers of Wildlife Conservation," examines the formative relationship between Yellowstone National Park and the... Read More →

Barnet is the author of "All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930," a nonfiction finalist for the 2004 Lambda Awards. She was a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review for twenty-five years, and has contributed to Smithsonian, Self... Read More →

Eig, whom Ken Burns calls a "master storyteller," is the author of five books, three of them New York Times best sellers. In addition to "Ali," which is a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in Biography, his books include "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig"; "Opening... Read More →

Farrell is the author of "Richard Nixon: The Life," a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in Biography, which has won the PEN America prize for best biography, and the New-York Historical Society prize for best work of American history in 2017. His previous works are "Clarence... Read More →

Federman is a reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute and the author of "Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray," a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in Biography. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Slate... Read More →