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 in 2012. 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. On Saturday, May 6th, several hundred protestors gathered in San Francisco’s historic Portsmouth Square in Chinatown carrying such signs as “Remember 1882” and “2017 Has Become 1882.” They were there to mark the 135th anniversary of the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first law … 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
