In what year was the Californian festival, which has featured a presenter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Angela's Ashes," first held?
Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival The Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival takes place the last weekend of September in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Held annually since 2007, it attracts many of the world's top authors and thinkers, including Pulitzer Prize winners. Presenters have included Frank McCourt, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Greg Mortenson, Khaled Hosseini, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Elizabeth Edwards, Seymour Hersh, Michael Pollan, Douglas Brinkley, Elizabeth Gilbert, Carl Hiaasen, and P. J. O'Rourke.
Haynes Johnson Haynes Bonner Johnson (July 9, 1931May 24, 2013) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, best-selling author, and TV analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widely regarded as one of the top American political commentators.