An Evening with Judith Freeman in Conversation with M.G. Lord January 24, 2008

Networking and cocktails at 7 p.m.

Program starts at 7:45 p.m.

Both authors will sign their books.

Cost: Free to members of LA press club, $10 for all others. Includes refreshments.

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Bios:
JUDITH FREEMAN is a novelist, essayist, critic, and short story writer whose first work of non-fiction, "The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and The Woman He Loved" is getting rave reviews. “This account of Chandler’s long love affair with Cissy Pascal, a married woman who later became his wife, is really “an exploration of... two relationships — Ray and Cissy, Chandler and L.A.” Freeman’s “identification with her subject is so complete we feel we’re there with Chandler too.” (Los Angeles Times)
Her first book was a collection of short stories, Family Attractions (1988), which was praised in the New York Times and The New York Review of Books for its originality. Her novels include The Chinchilla Farm (1989), Set For Life (1991), A Desert of Pure Feeling (1996), and most recently, Red Water, named one of the 100 best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times.

M.G. LORD’s most recent book is "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science," a family memoir about aerospace culture during the Cold War. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. She has recently written the cover story in Discover magazine on radiation dangers in space travel and an article in Los Angeles magazine on private space exploration efforts. She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and that paper’s Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ARTNews, Travel & Leisure, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lord was for twelve years a syndicated political cartoonist and columnist based at Newsday. A graduate of Yale University, she is a trustee of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale and has received resident fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and other venues.

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