LITERARY WOMEN
Celebrating Women Authors Since 1982
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Jacqueline Briskin
What’s Novel in California?
Morning Session
Jacqueline Briskin, author of Onyx, Paloverde and others.
Betty Edwards
Drawing on the Right Side of Writing
Morning Session
Betty Edwards, Ph.D., author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
Delia Ephron
Humor and family life
Afternoon Session
Delia Ephron, author of Teenage Romance (or How to Die of Embarrassment) and How to Eat Like a Child. Childhood memories that bless and burn.
Betty Harper Fussell
As a matter of fact
Afternoon Session
Betty Harper Fussell, author of Mabel, a biography of Hollywood’s first ‘I-don’t-care’ girl! She is joined by Elaine Kendall for this presentation.
Helene Hanff
BETTER THAN RUBIES
…our author talks about her fans.
Luncheon Speaker
Helene Hanff on her maiden voyage to California. Author of 84 Charing Cross Road…. a love affair with reading. (Now a play, opening in New York in December, and starring Ellen Burstyn.) Also, Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, numerous TV scripts and the highly personal tourist guide of New York, Apple of My Eye.
Robin Johnson
Trampling Out the Vintage
Morning Session
Robin Johnson, PhD, poet-in-residence at Pepperdine University joins Ann Stanford, Ph.D., poet, and editor of The Women Poets in English for this discussion.
Elaine Kendall
As a matter of fact
Afternoon Session
Elaine Kendall, author of The Upper Hand, The Happy Mediocrity, and Peculiar Institutions… and Los Angeles Times critic. She is joined by Betty Harper Fussell for this presentation.
Cynthia Whitcomb Mandelberg
“Grand Slam”: Writing for Television, Film and Stage
Opening Speaker
Cynthia Whitcomb Mandelberg is a Long Beach writer of outstanding television biographies, including Eleanor, First Lady of the World starring Jean Stapleton in May of 1982, and The Grace Kelly Story being produced in association with Cheryl Ladd. Also, Looking Glass a play based on the life of Lewis Carroll.
Patricia Matthews
I’ll take romance!
Afternoon Session
Patricia Matthews, author of Love’s Raging Tide, Midnight Whispers and Tides of Love.
CSULB Mystery-Cult
Whodunits? The women do it well!
Afternoon Session
Eileen Lothamer, PhD, in Victorian Literature along with co-conspirator Louise Lubbe, Professor of English, emeritus, discuss the women writers of the genre.
Carolyn See
What’s Novel in California?
Morning Session
Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times critic, author of Mothers, Daughters and Rhine Maidens.
Roberta Smoodin
Meditations on the Meaning of Magic
Morning Session
Roberta Smoodin, author of Presto!
Ann Stanford
Trampling Out The Vintage
Morning Session
Ann Stanford, PhD., poet, and editor of The Women Poets in English is joined by Robin Johnson PhD., poet-in-residence at Pepperdine for this discussion.