ADVISORY/Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to Feature Almost 400 Best-Selling Authors, Celebrities, 95 Panels, Family Entertainment April 27-28 at UCLA.News & Lifestyle Editors ADVISORY...for Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. & Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. (April 27 & 28) Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). Festival of Books 2002 --(BUSINESS WIRE) Los Angeles Times Book Prizes to be Awarded April 27 at UCLA's Royce Hall Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870-1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881-1962) in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed
WHAT: Seventh annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
-- 95 author panels, readings and discussion sessions
-- Almost 400 authors
-- Free book signings
-- "Fahrenheit 451: One Book, One City: Ray Bradbury Speaks Out"
-- Six stages featuring authors, cooking demonstrations, poetry
readings, children's storytelling, and music, drama and dance
performances
-- PBS Television children's character Barney; Nick Jr.'s
children's television series, "Blue's Clues"; "Schoolhouse
Rock" Unplugged, based on the popular children's television
series
-- More than 280 exhibitors including specialty booksellers and
major book publishers
22nd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize awards ceremony
-- 10 Book Prizes winners to be announced
-- Emcee: Sandra Tsing Loh, prize-winning author, KCRW-FM
commentator and Public Radio International (PRI) contributor
-- Award presenters: Aimee Bender, A. Scott Berg, Bebe Moore
Campbell, Robert Crais, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frances
FitzGerald, Jonathan Kirsch, Lois Lowry, David Macaulay,
Richard Reeves
WHEN: Festival: Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Sunday, April 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Book Prize awards ceremony: April 27, 7:30 p.m.,
UCLA's Royce Hall
WHERE: Festival: UCLA campus
Book Prize awards ceremony: UCLA's Royce Hall
MEDIA David Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 213-237-4715
CREDENTIALS: david.garcia@latimes.com
EVENT www.latimes.com/festivalofbooks, 1-800-LA TIMES ext. 7BOOK
INFORMATION: www.latimes.com/bookprizes
ADMISSION: Free. On-campus parking is $6.
PANEL ADMISSION: Tickets (free) are required to attend author panel
discussions; available without charge at selected
Southern California Ticketmaster locations. A
limited number of tickets will also be available
on-site.
SPECIAL Maya Angelou Peter Bart and Peter Guber
SESSIONS: Ray Bradbury T.C. Boyle with Jonathan Levi
Mary Higgins Clark Paul Conrad with Robert Scheer
Quincy Jones Frank Deford with George Plimpton
Laurie King Francis Fukuyama with Matt Miller
David Macaulay David Halberstam with Gay Talese
Oliver Sacks Steve Martin with Susan Salter Reynolds
R.L. Stine Tillie Olsen with Carol Muske-Dukes
Gore Vidal with Victor Navasky
Joseph Wambaugh with Barry Siegel
Garry Wills with A. Scott Berg
CELEBRITIES, California's First Lady, Mrs. Sharon Davis
SPECIAL GUESTS: Dom DeLuise
Fran Drescher
Julie Andrews Edwards
Oliver Stone
Melissa Joan Hart, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"
Milo Ventimiglia, WB television series
"Gilmore Girls"
Andy Kindler, WB television series "Raising Dad"
Christopher Nance, NBC 4 weather anchor/children's
author
KTLA 5 personalities: Mindy Burbano, Eric Spillman,
Lynette Romero, Sam Rubin
Nicky McCrimmon, Los Angeles Sparks guard
PANELS: Jihad vs. McWorld: The Paradox of Terrorism
L.A. Riots: Ten Years Later
American Foreign Policy: the Lessons of Humanitarian
Intervention
The Abuse of Power: Then & Now
The Imperial Presidency: From Nixon to Bush
The Story Behind the Stories: Mayhem, Drugs &
Atrocities
In the Beginning: Revisiting the Bible
Women Writing War
The Invention of Los Angeles
Beyond the Crabgrass: True Tales from Suburbia
The Invisible Man? The New African American
Experience
Borderless L.A.: The New Mexican American Experience
East Meets West: Asian American Identity Today
Selling Celebrity: The Truth About Hollywood Lives
The Frenzy of Renown: Hollywood and the Cult of
Celebrity
In Too Deep: Lady Sleuths & Dangerous Places
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: Unlocking the Criminal
Mind
Robert Bly: The Poetry of Ghalib and the Art of
Translation
Tales of the City: Journalism Today
What Will We Read Next? Publishing in an Age of
Uncertainty
Post-Modern Heroines
The Writing Life: Gay Writers Speak Out
Romancing the Muse: Writers Talk about the Spirit of
Creation
Evolution of a Book
Ideas from Elsewhere: Writing for the Screen
BOOK PRIZE CEREMONY: $10 per person for the ceremony only; $50 per
person for both the ceremony and a post-event buffet reception.
Tickets may be purchased through the UCLA Central Ticket Office at
310/825-2101 or Ticketmaster at 213/365-3500. Festival attendees can
purchase tickets on Saturday at the Royce Hall box office.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: The Festival of Books - one of the
nation's premier public literary festivals - was created in 1996 by
The Times to promote literacy, celebrate the written word and bring
together those who create books with the people who love to read them.
The festival is presented in association with UCLA.
Last year, a record 120,000 people attended the event.
FESTIVAL Presenting: Barnes & Noble, Target
SPONSORS:
Major: Ticketmaster
Contributing: Borders, Center Theatre Group, The Huntington
Library, Los Angeles Opera, National Geographic Traveler
Magazine, Odwalla, Crown Books, Pasadena Playhouse
Media: NBC 4, KTLA 5, KABC AM (790), KCRW FM (89.9), KFWB
AM (980), KLON FM (88.1), K-MOZART FM (105.1), KPCC FM
(89.3), KPFK FM (90.7), Radio Disney AM (710)
ABOUT THE BOOK PRIZES: The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, established
in 1980, recognize outstanding literary achievements in nine
categories: biography, current interest, history, mystery/thriller,
poetry, science and technology, fiction, first fiction, and young
adult fiction.
The annual Robert Kirsch Award recognizes a living author whose
residence and/or focus is the American West and whose contributions to
American letters merit body-of-work recognition. Kirsch served as The
Times' book critic for more than 25 years prior to his death in 1980.
Each prize includes a $1,000 cash award.
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