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Nationality. Californian (New Spain or Mexico) Zorro (Spanish: [ˈsoro] or [ˈθoro], Spanish for "fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California. [1] He is typically portrayed as a dashing masked vigilante that defends the ...
v. t. e. A cholo or chola is a member of a Chicano and Latino subculture or lifestyle associated with a particular set of dress, behavior, and worldview which originated in Los Angeles. [1] A veterano or veterana is an older member of the same subculture. [2][3][4] Other terms referring to male members of the subculture may include vato and ...
336. ISBN. 978-1-4767-4018-8. The Library Book is a 2018 non-fiction book by Susan Orlean about the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Central Library. It received strongly favorable reviews and became a New York Times Best Seller.
The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. [1][2][3] They are: Elmore Leonard wrote that "reading The Black Dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses". Several characters from the L.A. Quartet, most notably Dudley Smith, were introduced in Ellroy's 1982 ...
The Choirboys (ISBN 0-440-11188-9), a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as Number 93 of "The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time". The Choirboys is a tragicomic parody about the effects of ...
Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times ...
A Darkness More Than Night. The Davidian Report. The Dead Circus. Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases. The Delta Star. Devil in a Blue Dress. The Devil to Pay (Ellery Queen novel) The Digging Leviathan. Dr. Adder.
The building was built in 1912 for John Brockman (1841-1925) and designed by George D. Barnett (1863-c. 1925) of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett. The Brockman Building was the first building west of the Broadway Commercial District to reach the city's 150-foot height limit. [2] Brockman's move started a westward movement of the downtown commercial ...