Meet the Author: Arthur Hoyle
Monday, November 10, 2 – 3 p.m.
The Unknown Henry Miller
In
The Unknown Henry Miller,
Arthur
Hoyle
traces Henry Miller’s career
through his period of American obscurity,
focusing on his Big Sur years. During
this time, he published more than
twenty books and pamphlets; painted
watercolors; married and divorced
twice; and raised two children. Drawing
extensively on correspondence between
Miller and the members of his intimate
literary circle, and examining closely
key Miller texts, Mr. Hoyle presents a
rounded portrait of Miller the man and
artist.
Educator, writer, and independent
filmmaker Arthur Hoyle has written and
produced award-winning documentary
films that have aired on PBS. He earned
his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in
English from UCLA, and currently lives
in Pacific Palisades.
Meet the Author: William J. Mann
Wednesday, December 10, 2 – 3 p.m.
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine,
and Madness at the Dawn of
Hollywood
By 1920, the movies had become
America’s new favorite pastime,
and one of the nation’s largest
industries. Never before had a medium
possessed such power to influence.
Yet Hollywood’s glittering ascendency
was threatened by headline-grabbing
tragedies – including the murder of
William Desmond Taylor, the popular
president of the Motion Picture Directors
Association, a legendary crime that has
remained unsolved until now.
In this “stellar and gripping true-
crime narrative” (
Publishers Weekly
),
biographer and historian
William J.
Mann
breathes vivid life into 1920s
Los Angeles and draws on a rich host
of sources, including recently released
FBI files, to provide the solution to a
crime that has stumped detectives and
historians for nearly a century.
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