About the AuthorOne morning, in June of 2016, an e-mail popped into my inbox from the grandniece of Donaldina Cameron, one of the main characters in The White Devil’s Daughters, my nonfiction account of the women who fought slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I’d already been researching and writing my book … READ FULL POST
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A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration and the “safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedomComing May 2019Background image, Chinatown After Dark, by Willard E. Worden, Courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library -
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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