Los Angeles Times publisher, Eddy Hartenstein, University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias, and Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj met informally before the start of the the Los Angeles Times Books Prize Ceremony on Friday, April 11, 2014 in USC’s Bovard Auditorium. Among the winners of this year’s Book Prize awards was USC alumna Susan Straight, who was awarded the 2013 Robert Kirsch Award for her fiction set in Southern California. The event was a prelude the 2014 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California, the fourth consecutive year the weekend-long event has been held on the USC campus. Held annually in the spring, The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is the largest literary festival in the country.
Literary luminaries celebrated in prelude to Festival of Books
