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 Rise... 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 Burns... 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 We Might... Read More →