April
2005 Meeting Photos of the event - click here
Multi-talented James Dalessandro to Speak
The California Writers Club proudly welcomes James Dalessandro,
whose latest novel, 1906, an epic recreation of the
massive San Francisco earthquake and fire, sold to Warner Brothers
after a heated Hollywood bidding war.
Dalessandro began his career as a poet. His books include a collection
of poetry, Bohemian Heart, plus Citizen Jane,
the true crime tale of a Marin County woman who has solved 14 cold case
murders, and now 1906, an epic recreation of the San
Francisco earthquake.
Dalessandro is co-executive producer and screenwriter of Citizen
Jane for Wolper Productions, and is currently writer and
co-director, with four-time Oscar winner Ben Burtt, of The
Damndest Finest Ruins, also about the 1906 earthquake. He is
also writer/director on his film San Joaquin, for San
Andreas Films (“It’s Not Our Fault.”). He teaches the longest-running
screenwriting course in San Francisco and served as the writer for the
award-winning House of Blues Radio Hour.
The Hungry Hunter restaurant is at 3201 Mt.
Diablo Blvd., Lafayette (corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd./Pleasant Hill Rd.)
Take the Pleasant Hill Rd. SOUTH exit off Hwy. 24 freeway. HH is just
south
of the freeway. In case you get lost, call (925) 938-3938 for
directions.
I think this is James' latest 'main' website
There's an excerpt and audio and video features.
Here's what we wrote to announce
J. D.'s 2001 appearance at our club. Careful - Most links on the page
are dead!
Interview
re: 1906 Interview
re: Citizen Jane
Read about a book
that inspired James - Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and
Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
1906: A Novel
by James Dalessandro
Chronicle Books (2004)
Amazon.com
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