LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Enguidanos is assistant professor at the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. She has more than 10 years’ experience conducting research in aging, with a focus on geriatric health and end-of-life care issues.

Doughty--host and creator of "Ask a Mortician" and the New York Times best-selling author of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "From Here to Eternity"—founded the Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs the nonprofit funeral home Undertaking LA.

Rosenbloom is a medical librarian at USC and director of Death Salon, the Order of the Good Death's public event series. She leads a multidisciplinary team scientifically testing alleged books bound in human skin in the world's libraries and museums. Her debut book titled "Dark... Read More →

Sloane is professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of "The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History" (1991), "Is the Cemetery Dead" (2018), and... Read More →