ADVISORY/Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to Feature Almost 400 Best-Selling Authors, Celebrities, 95 Panels, Family Entertainment April 27-28 at UCLA

Business Wire, April 24, 2002

News & Lifestyle Editors

ADVISORY...for Saturday & Sunday (April 27 & 28)

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2002

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes to be Awarded

April 27 at UCLA's Royce Hall

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.