[Englecturers] Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

[John Ganim]

Dear All,

Does everyone know that his weekend (April 28-9) 
is the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books? The 
list of authors is heavy on popular non-fiction, 
but there are a number if significant fiction 
writers and poets represented (and Susan Straight 
is a finalist for the fiction prize.)

http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/


Here's a list of authors:

Chris Abani
Robin Abcarian
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Mitch Albom
Sherman Alexie
Amy Alkon
Ted Allen
Stanley Alpert
Daniel Altman
Bill Amend
American Girl
Betsy Amster
M.T. Anderson
Julie Andrews
Debby Applegate
Gustavo Arellano
Govind Armstrong
Anthony Arthur
Reza Aslan
James Atlas

TOP

Kage Baker
David Baldacci
Ann Louise Bardach
Michael Barrier
Lidia Bastianich
Karen Grigsby Bates
Bruce Bauman
Will Beall
Richard Beban
Robin Becker
Beethoven's Wig
Erin Belieu
Gioconda Belli
Aimee Bender
Lisa Beres
A. Scott Berg
Debbie Bertram
Peter Biskind
Francesca Lia Block
Susan Bloom
Chris Bohjalian
Sonja Bolle
Rodney Bolt
Elayne Boosler
Max Boot
Coe Booth
Georges Borchardt
Mark Bowden
Anne Bowen
T.C. Boyle
Taylor Branch
Gayle Brandeis
Leo Braudy
Berkeley Breathed
Douglas Brinkley
Jan Burke
Allison Burnett
Ellen Burstyn
Elena Karina Byrne

TOP
Liam Callanan
Patty Campbell
Stephen J. Cannell
Hélène Cardona
Ron Carlson
Cecil Castellucci
Joe Cepeda
Vikram Chandra
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Don Cheadle
Children's Museum of LA
Craig Childs
Mary Higgins Clark
Melissa Clark
Carol Higgins Clark Joshua Clover
Harlan Coben
Tony Cohan
Rich Cohen
Joe Conason
Michael Connelly
Paul Conrad
Marc Cooper
Bernard Cooper
Cat Cora
Miles Corwin
Robert Crais
Steve Crouch
Paul Cummins
Thomas Curwen

TOP
Kavita Daswani
Michael Datcher
Meghan Daum
Define-A-Thon
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Bruce Dern
William Deverell
Susan Diamond
Jared Diamond
Eric Jerome Dickey Sandra Dijkstra
Gioia Diliberto
Mark Doty
Kirk Douglas
Kim Dower
Alicia Drake
Tom Drury
Tony D'Souza
Samantha Dunn

TOP
Hope Edelman
Ben Ehrenreich
Deborah Eisenberg
Ruth Andrew Ellenson
James Ellroy Steve Erickson
Alex Espinoza
Rafe Esquith
Mark Essig
Percival Everett

TOP
Mark Fainaru-Wada
Barbara Fairchild
Jerrilyn Farmer
Mike Farrell
Kitty Felde
Joshua Ferris
Scott Fickas
Janet Fitch
Richard Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan Anne Taylor Fleming
Allan Folsom
Ruth Forman
Lucinda Franks
Mariah Fredericks
Judith Freeman
Roger Friedland
Lisa Fugard
Cornelia Funke
Jim Fusilli

TOP
Kate Gale
Chris Gall
Cristina Garcia
Peter Gethers
Ann Gibbons
Jennifer Gilmore
Debra Ginsberg
Dana Gioia
Robin Preiss Glasser
Barry Glassner Jeffrey Goldberg
Tod Goldberg
Amy Goodman
David Goodman
Dana Goodyear
John Green
Seth Greenland
Alice Greenway
Tim Gunn

TOP
Steven Hall
Oakley Hall
Judith Hall
Mark Halperin
Fran Halpern
Daniel Halpern
Denise Hamilton
Hill Harper
Peter Harris
Eloise Klein Healy
Chris Hedges
Jane Heller
Jessica Hendra
Beth Henley
Hugh Hewitt HI 5TM
Peter Himmelman
Erik Himmelsbach
S.E. Hinton
Janet Hirshenson
Christopher Hitchens
Ron Hogan
Katharine Holabird
Sue Horton
David Horvath
Robert Lee Hotz
James D. Houston
Arianna Huffington
Edward Humes
Michelle Huneven

TOP
Lee Iacocca
Mark Irwin
Walter Isaacson
Barbara Isenberg Michael Isikoff
Tara Ison
Pico Iyer

TOP
Matthew Jaffe
Michael Jaime-Becerra
J.A. Jance
Jay Jay the Jet Plane Brian Michael Jenkins
Jane Jenkins
Terri Jentz

TOP
Cynthia Kadohata
Eric R. Kandel
Susan Kandel
Zachary Karabell
Alan Katz
Jennifer Kaufman
Douglas Kearney
Andrew Keen
Carolyn Kellogg
Brad Kessler
Kids in the Mix Kidspace Children's Museum
Bridget Kinsella
David Kipen
David Kirk
Jonathan Kirsch
William Kittredge
Norman Klein
Hilary Knight
Bart Kosko
Elizabeth Kostova

TOP
Kelly Lange
Laughing Pizza!
Eric Lax
Jim Lehrer
Dinah Lenney
Jill Leovy
Jeffrey Levine
Laura Tyson Li
Dave Lieberman
Kylee Lin
Elinor Lipman
Laura Lippman John Lithgow
Aimee Liu
Dick Lochte
Steve Lopez
M.G. Lord
Lori Lori What's the Story?
Tina Louise
Orli Low
Frank Luntz
Eric Van Lustbader
Lisa Lutz

TOP
Karen Mack
Leonard Maltin
Larry Mantle
Merrill Markoe
John Marks
YmaSumac Marañón
Hugo C. Martin
Al Martinez
Demetria Martinez
Connie Martinson
Dan Mathews
Joe Mathews
D. T. Max
Frank McCourt
Janet McCracken
Terry McDermott
Megan McDonald
Dr. Phil McGraw
Bill McKibben
James McManus Daniel Meyers
Jack Miles
Marjorie Miller
Jane Miller
T. Christian Miller
Larry Miller
Wiley Miller
Matt Miller
Kate Moloney
Lee Montgomery
Christopher Moore
David Morrell
Patt Morrison
Ron Morrissette
Walter Mosley
Derek Munson
Bernadette Murphy
Yxta Maya Murray
Carol Muske-Dukes

TOP
Ralph Nader
Gina Nahai
Patrick Neate
Kadir Nelson
Sara Nelson
Marion Nestle
Janis Cooke Newman Jim Newton
Bich Minh Nguyen
Christopher Noxon
Laura Numeroff
Kem Nunn
Sari Nusseibeh

TOP
Raymond Obstfeld
Randy Olson
Peter Orner
Meghan O'Rourke Jim O'Shea
Peter Osnos
Nick Owchar

TOP
Brett Paesel
Greg Palast
T. Jefferson Parker
Todd Parr
Russ Parsons
Stephan Pastis
Nancy Pearl
George Pelecanos
PEN Center USA
Marisha Pessl Glasgow Phillips
Peter Plate
Neal Pollack
Michael Pollan
John Powers
John Prendergast
Eyal Press
Jenny Price
James Prosek

TOP
Sam Quinones Quinto Sol

TOP
Kit Rachlis
James Ragan
Emily Rapp
Ron Rash
Richard Rayner
Richard Reeves
Nina Revoyr
Susan Salter Reynolds
Pamela Ribon Adam Rivera
Justin Roberts & Not Ready for Naptime Players
Kevin Roderick
Luis J. Rodriguez
Ron Rosenbaum
Thane Rosenbaum
Victoria Rowell
Mark Rozzo

TOP
Barney Saltzberg
Lois Sarkisian
Thom Satterlee
John Scalzi
Robert Scheer
Richard Schickel
Erika Schickel
Nick Schou
Peter Schrag
Leslie Schwartz
Donna Seaman
Carolyn See
Lisa See
Danzy Senna
David Shannon
Adam Shatz
Alicia C. Shepard
Michael Shermer
Gary Shteyngart
Barry Siegel
Tom Siegfried Clancy Sigal
Marisa Silver
Michael Silverblatt
Nancy Silverton
Romus Simpson
Bob Sipchen
Ellen Slezak
Michele Slung
Gary Small
Jane Smiley
Mark Haskell Smith
RJ Smith
Martin J. Smith
Nancy Snow
Rebecca Solnit
Jill Soloway
Raphael Sonenshein
Peter Spiegelman
David St. John
Karen Stabiner
Geoffrey Stone
Susan Straight
Andy Summers
Ariel Swartley

TOP
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Stephan Talty
James Taranto
Elizabeth Taylor
Keren Taylor
John Tayman Johnny Temple
The SqueeGees
Gabriel Thompson
Daniel Tiffany
Krista Tippett
Michael Tolkin
Kenneth Turan

TOP
David L. Ulin

TOP
Katrina vanden Heuval
Sander Vanocur
Gore Vidal Helena Maria Viramontes
Susan Vreeland

TOP
Diana Wagman
D.J. Waldie
Michael Walker
Mary Ellen Walker
Daniel Wallace
David Wallechinsky
Amy Wallen
Peter Wallsten
Joseph Wambaugh
Rick Wartzman
Steve Wasserman
Michael Waters
Charles Harper Webb
Robert Weil
Jim Weiss Rosemary Wells
Nancy Werlin
Wendy Werris
Jon Wiener
Marianne Wiggins
Amy Wilentz
Lance Williams
Antoine Wilson
Doug Wilson
Henry Winkler
Don Winslow
Charlie Winton
Daniel Woodrell
Stuart Woods
Jacqueline Woodson
Lawrence Wright

TOP
Martin Yan
Al Young C. Dale Young
John Sacret Young

TOP
Val Zavala Harold Zellman


John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
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