Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist. Her most recent book is Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure, published by Grove/Atlantic. Her first book was the The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty. She is now at work on her next book, set in San Francisco’s turn-of-the-century Chinatown, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in May of 2019. At this year's annual gathering of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, I was honored to give the opening talk. Here are my remarks. *** I’m so happy to be here… to help celebrate the rollicking and generous spirit that has infused our Community all these years. How many … READ FULL POST
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“Lost Kingdom is a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii. It's impossible not to be impressed with the breadth of Siler's fine scholarship. A real gem of a book."—Douglas BrinkleyBackground image, Enoch Wood Perry´s Manoa Valley, courtesy of the Bishop Museum (cropped for use on this website) -
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“Call it Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama, Biblical strife, Freudian acting out or even soap opera. You wouldn’t be exaggerating, and you wouldn’t be wrong….”—Eric Asimov, The New York Times
