Autry Book Club
Love the Autry? Love Books? Join the new Autry Book Club!
In 2009 we are honored to showcase highly celebrated authors who will join us at our Autry Book Club meetings.
Autry Book Club dues are $5 per year, in addition to Autry membership. Share in thoughtful conversations, enjoy a private author reception, and become deeply engaged with the books we will be focusing on. We'll discover Autry Initiatives: West as Crossroads, Voices of Native America, Western Resources, and Violence and Justice.
To add Autry Book Club to your current membership, please call the friendly Membership Team at 323.667.2000, ext. 326, or e-mail memberinfo@AutryNationalCenter.org.
*You must be an Autry member to join the Book Club.*
MEET THE AUTHORS:
Craig Johnson
Sunday, July 19, 2–4 pm
Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park
Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse
To RSVP, please call 323.667.2000 ext. 394
Craig Johnson's first stop to release his new book The Dark Horse is at the Autry Book Club meeting and reception!
Dark Horse
Like his protagonist, Sheriff Walt Longmire, mystery writer Craig Johnson is a force to be reckoned with. Hailing from New York City, he gave up the hustle and bustle of big-city life to settle down in a small Wyoming town where he’s now a rancher and, of course, a bestselling mystery author.
Featuring Johnson's signature sense of humor and reuniting his beloved cast of characters along with some new faces, The Dark Horse will keep readers guessing as Sheriff Longmire unpins his star and ventures into a town without pity to save a woman without hope.
Craig Johnson’s books The Cold Dish, a Dilys Award finalist; Death Without Company, the Wyoming Historical Society’s Fiction Book of the Year; Kindness Goes Unpunished; and Another Man’s Moccasinshave all been Book Sense and Killer picks. His story Old Indian Trick won the Tony Hillerman Short Story Contest and appeared in Cowboys & Indians magazine. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. Visit www.craigallenjohnson.com.
Lisa See
Sunday, September 20, 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park
Lisa See, Shanghai Girls
To RSVP, please call 323.667.2000 ext. 380.
UPDATE
1:30-2:00 Autry Book Club Members Book Signing in the Lobby of Wells Fargo Theater
2:00-3:00 Book Club Meeting and Lecture in Wells Fargo Theater
3:00-4:00 Reception and Book Signing in Plaza
Lisa See, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), has always been intrigued by stories that have been lost, forgotten, or deliberately covered up, whether in the past or happening right now somewhere in the world.
In her first book since On Gold Mountain, Lisa goes back to her roots to write about the Chinese experience in Los Angeles, Hollywood, and a short-lived tourist attraction called China City.
Shanghai Girls
Book Club Reading: At its heart, SHANGHAI GIRLS is a story of sisters. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of south China, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the foreign shores of America. In Los Angeles, they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with their stranger husbands, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life, even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules.
Lisa See served as guest curator for an exhibition on the Chinese American experience for the Autry, which then traveled to the Smithsonian Institution. She also helped develop and curate the Autry’s Family Discovery Gallery, an interactive space for children and their families, which focuses on Lisa’s biracial, bicultural family as seen through the eyes of her father when he was a seven-year-old boy living in 1930s Los Angeles. See serves as a Los Angeles City Commissioner on the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Monument Authority. She was honored as National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 2001 and was the recipient of the Chinese American Museum’s History Makers Award in Fall 2003. Visit www.LisaSee.com.
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