LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the | University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth- | century American West, including "Whitewashed Adobe: The... Read More →

Bloom is an award-winning journalist and author of four critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including the | bestselling "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America." He is a professor of journalism at the | University of Iowa. His newest book is "The Audacity of Inez... Read More →

Mealer is the author of "The Kings of Big Spring," "Muck City" and the New York Times bestseller "The Boy | Who Harnessed the Wind," written with William Kamkwamba. He's also the author of "All Things Must Fight | to Live," which chronicled his years covering the war in the Democratic... Read More →

Wheeler is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. His essays have appeared in many literary journals, including The | Iowa Review, Sonora Review, PANK, and the Missouri Review. He has written feature stories for BuzzFeed and | Harper's Magazine online and is a coeditor of the anthology... Read More →