Francis has taught creative writing at University of California, Los Angeles Occidental College and in the Masters of Professional Writing program at University of Southern California. He is the author of The Great Inland Sea, published to acclaim in seven countries Stray Dog Winter, Book of the Year in The Advocate and winner of the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Prize for Literature and Wedding Bush Road, released in the United States and Australia in 2017. Ebershoff serves as a director and vide president of the Sahm Family Foundation, located in Rancho Santa Fe, California, which focuses on support for the arts and disadvantaged children, and is also a member of the Friends Board of the Nasher Museum at Duke Museum, and a director of the Wheeler Foundation, Los Angeles, California.ĭavid Francis is an Australian lawyer and novelist based in Los Angeles. Their son is an author and former executive editor at Random House. Louis, and Pasadena-and seven grandchildren (five boys and two girls). They have four adult children spread across the United States-New York, Chicago, St. Ebershoff and his wife Becky have lived in Pasadena, California, for over 40 years and they currently divide their time between Pasadena and Durham, North Carolina. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable F. Ebershoff holds a BA from Duke and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. These included mergers and acquisitions, contests for corporate control, going-private transactions, and private financings for start-up and emerging companies. Ebershoff is a retired partner and former Los Angeles office managing partner of the international law firm of Norton Rose Fulbright where he represented both public and privately held companies in various corporate, securities, financings, and governance matters. “Her book is unrelentingly fun, but it is also raw and profane-a story of fierce pride, fierce anger, and even fiercer love.” -NPRĭavid A. The novel will be published in 12 countries. The Wangs has been named a New York Times Editors’ Choice as well as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, Elle, and NPR, and was awarded the VCU/Cabell First Novelist prize. the World, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Jade Chang is the author of The Wangs vs. She is a former board member of PEN Center USA. Laura is a member of the Producers Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where she sits on the UK Events Committee. Born and raised in New York City, she started her career in London working for Jeremy Thomas and Luc Roeg’s Vivid Productions and produced over 50 music videos in Europe and the United States. She is currently in post on Sweetness in the Belly based on the novel by Camilla Gibb starring Dakota Fanning and directed by Ethiopian director Zeresenay Mehari. Other films include Arbitrage with Richard Gere, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination and remains one of the most successful day and date releases of all time, Netflix’s first theatrical release Beasts of No Nation, director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s war drama starring Idris Elba, Duplicity with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, Fur with Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, and her first film Citizen X for HBO, which won Donald Sutherland the Emmy for Best Actor. She has produced films such as Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, which won four Academy Awards, and Che Part 1 and Part 2, which won Benicio del Toro Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Laura Bickford is an award-winning independent film and TV producer based in Los Angeles and London. She earned an MBA from Fordham University in New York and a BA in English Literature and Contemporary Drama from York University in Toronto. Belzberg has also produced Academy Award winning films such as Crazy Heart, which earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor win, and the documentary Genocide, also produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, now the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. She also produced many of his films including Coming to America, Three Amigos, Blues Brothers 2000, Beverly Hills Cop III, Susan’s Plan, The Stupids, Oscar, Spies Like Us, and Into the Night. Clare Entertainment, a TV production company. Before moving into high-level executive roles at major studios, Belzberg was an independent producer, most well-known for her storied collaboration with director John Landis. Prior to Gaumont, she was a consultant for Blumhouse Television and head of production at Miramax and Endemol-Shine North America. Leslie Belzberg currently oversees all television and theatrical productions for Gaumont as Senior Vice President, Production. PEN America is grateful to the following supporters who are members of the PEN America Los Angeles Committee.Ĭo-Chairs: David Francis, Moira Griffin, and Rob Perrin 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
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