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Donna Wares returned to the Los Angeles Times in 2019 to launch the Los Angeles Times Book Club. She has previously served as an editor on the paper¡¯s national desk, state desk and Orange County city desk. Formerly managing editor of the Orange County Register and director of the Spokesman-Review¡¯s Northwest Passages Book Club in Washington state, Wares began her career as a reporter for the Miami Herald. She has written several books and edited ¡°My California: Journeys by Great Writers,¡± a bestselling anthology that raised more than $100,000 for children¡¯s writing programs in the state. She left The Times in January 2024.