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 →

Hearst is editor and publisher of Journal of Alta California, a quarterly that launched in 2017. He is also chairman of the board of Hearst Corporation, one of the nation's largest media and information companies, and president of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Formerly... Read More →

Pastor is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California where he directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. The inaugural holder of USC's Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change... Read More →

Zacchino is an author and award-winning journalist who served as a top editor at the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. During her 31 years at the Los Angeles Times, she was a reporter, government and politics editor, Sacramento bureau chief, Editor of the Orange County... Read More →