LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Bates is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for NPR News. Bates contributed commentaries to "All Things Considered" for about 10 years before she joined NPR in 2002 as the first correspondent and alternate host for "The Tavis Smiley Show." In addition to general reporting and substitute... Read More →

Lehane is the author of thirteen novels, including the international bestsellers "Live by Night," "World Gone By," "Moonlight Mile," Gone, Baby, Gone," "Mystic River," "Shutter Island," "The Given Day," and "Since We Fell." Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series “The... Read More →