DEAR LOS ANGELES: The City in Diaries & Letters, 1542 to 2018

Wednesday, August 19, 2026•5:00 PM

Cultural Historian & UCLA Writing Professor David Kipen has amassed a compendium of voices – the famous, the critical, the observers – to help tell the impressions of our fascinating City. Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters is a rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and many more.

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