About 150,000 people came to what has become the largest literary and cultural festival in the nation. See our favorite photos from a fun-filled weekend.
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The two-day festival on the University Park Campus will feature several USC faculty members and students.
PHOTO GALLERY: Tens of thousands turn out on the USC University Park Campus for the nation’s largest literary festival.
Wallis Annenberg Hall and the USC Stage will feature Trojans during the two-day L.A. Times Festival of Books on the University Park Campus.
The event has grown into the nation’s largest literary and cultural festival. Learn more, and check out our photo gallery.
The prizes were presented the evening before the L.A. Times Festival of Books on the USC University Park Campus.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which continues through Sunday, will draw an estimated 150,000 people to the University Park Campus.
Among the winners were widely known historians and journalists, including biography winner Beverly Gage, for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and Dahlia Lithwick, whose Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, won the current interest prize.
The nation’s largest literary festival — sponsored by USC and the Los Angeles Times — will be held online for the second year in a row due to COVID-19.
The festival — usually held on the USC University Park Campus — features more than two dozen online events over four weeks.