LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Ruiz is a distinguished professor of History and Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. His newest book is "The Western Mediterranean and the World: 400 to the Present."

Egan, a reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has covered the Great Lakes since 2003. He is the author of the book "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes," a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in History. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and he has... Read More →

Dr. Jones was a seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey for thirty years, most recently as Science Advisor for Risk Reduction. She created the Great ShakeOut Drill, an earthquake preparation experiment that by 2016 included 53 million participants around the world. A research... Read More →

Struzik is an award-winning writer and photographer. His previous books include "Future Arctic," "Arctic Icons," and "The Big Thaw," among others. A fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, his numerous accolades include... Read More →