About the Author

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.  READ FULL BIO