Photos: Speakers and authors at the 2025 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

As the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicked disconnected Saturday crossed the sprawling field astatine USC, the lawsuit erstwhile again became a magnet for a premix of personage authors from crossed the amusement satellite and beyond. Special guests similar writer Amanda Gorman, histrion Wil Wheaton, vocalist JoJo and comedian Hannah Berner popped by our photograph workplace to airs for portraits betwixt their engaged schedules speaking astatine panels successful beforehand of crowds astatine the festival. Here are immoderate of our favourite portraits of our peculiar guests from this weekend.

Amanda Gorman

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Amanda Gorman, writer of the 2025 representation publication “Girls connected the Rise,” is the youngest inaugural writer successful U.S. history. The award-winning writer who graduated cum laude from Harvard University, came to prominence aft her recitation of “The Hill We Climb” astatine the inauguration of President Biden.

Nikki Toscano

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Nikki Toscano is simply a writer, shaper and showrunner for tv who served arsenic co-showrunner and enforcement shaper of the amusement “Hunters” connected Amazon Prime and arsenic showrunner and enforcement shaper of Paramount+ miniseries “The Offer.”

Andrew Plotkin

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Andrew Plotkin is enforcement vice president of play improvement astatine Sony TV.

Author Liz Moore

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Author Liz Moore is the writer of the 2024 New York Times bestselling caller “The God of the Woods.”

Wil Wheaton

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Actor Wil Wheaton is known for his relation arsenic Wesley Crusher successful “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and different classical roles including Gordie Lachance successful the movie “Stand by Me,” Joey Trotta successful “Toy Soldiers” and Bennett Hoenicker successful “Flubber.”

JoJo

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Singer JoJo (Joanna Levesque) launched her vocation successful euphony releasing chart-topping R&B and popular music, including breakout deed “Leave (Get Out).” She gained prominence arsenic a young artist, and has besides made a sanction for herself successful acting and released a publication successful 2024 titled “Over the Influence.”