LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist who spent over 20 years in the newspaper business. Her first title, "Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California," captures the life of her great-great grandfather Isaias Hellman. Her latest book is... Read More →

Ledesma was brought undocumented to Oakland, California, at eight years old. He graduated U.C. Berkeley three times over and has held faculty positions at Cal State University, Monterey Bay, and U.C. Berkeley. He is a past winner of U.C. Irvine's Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. His... Read More →

Markham is a writer based in Berkeley, California, focusing on issues related to youth, migration, and the environment. Her work has appeared in outlets including VICE, Orion, NewYorker.com, The Guardian, Guernica, and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. For over a decade... Read More →

Polakow-Suransky is an editor at The New York Times op-ed page. He was a senior editor at Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2011 and holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 2003 to 2006. His writing has appeared in The American Prospect... Read More →