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Sep 5, 2006 · Laura Kalpakian. Animated as a family reunion, intimate as a lovers' picnic, American Cookery serves up tradition and innovation in a family novel based on the joy of cooking. The story is complete with twenty-seven recipes from the life and tumultuous times of Eden Douglass. Eden was born in 1920 into a contentious California tribe, and the ...
Laura Kalpakian is the internationally published author of twenty works of fiction, some under names other than her own. She has also published four collections of short fiction. In 2021 first nonfiction books appeared.
The Great Pretenders. Hollywood, 1953: From the beach at Malibu to leafy Laurel Canyon, from the soundstages of Empire Pictures to jazz clubs on Central Avenue, Roxanne Granville’s sunlit world is shadowed by secrets. Roxanne, granddaughter of Julia and Leon Greene, founder of Empire Pictures, romped through a charmed, wealthy childhood until ...
Also By Laura. Book reviews, tips for writers, and personal anecdotes related to her novels. All of that and more on Laura Kalpakian's blog.
Laura Kalpakian. 3.73. 623 ratings124 reviews. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants--even if she has to break the rules. But after a falling-out with her grandfather, a powerful movie mogul, she has to face life on her own for the first time.... Roxanne forges a career unique for women in the ...
Review by Whitney (Walters) Jacobson. When reading Laura Kalpakian’s short bio on the back of her newest book, Memory into Memoir: A Writer’s Handbook (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), I was a bit skeptical about the quality of advice within the guide given Kalpakian’s writing résumé largely consists of novels and short story collections.
Apr 1, 2005 · Laura Kalpakian, for one, still is writing them." - Wall Street Journal "Kalpakian creates inspiring, thought-provoking, even bewitching characters." - Baltimore Sun [Kalpakian] is so entertaining a writer that it takes a while to realize how smart she is. . . . Generous, gritty, sexy, full of lyrical musings, and funny as all get-out."
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