Erik Larson

Erik Larson is the author of eight books, five of which became New York Times bestsellers. Erik’s first book of narrative nonfiction, Isaac’s Storm, about the giant hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, in 1900, won the American Meteorology Society’s prestigious Louis J. Battan Author’s Award. The Washington Post called it the “Jaws of hurricane yarns.” Erik is particularly pleased to have won the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 2016 Carl Sandburg Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Russian history, language and culture; he received a masters in journalism from Columbia University. After a brief stint at the Bucks County Courier Times, Erik became a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and later a contributing writer for Time Magazine. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and other publications.

He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference in Bellingham, Wash., and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife.

Joel Stein

Joel Stein was not easy to work with on this bio.  The only facts he provided that were verifiable were that he wrote a weekly column for Time magazine for twenty years, along with twenty-two cover stories; that he was a columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times; that he is the author of the books Man Made and In Defense of Elitism; and that he has taught at Princeton and written for several sitcoms. There is no factual basis for his claim that his writing has “saved millions of lives and destroyed many more marriages.”

Location

This program will take place at the Fine Arts Theatre at 8556 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Parking

Parking is limited, so we encourage guests to take ride share services. Click here to view parking options nearby.

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