

New York Times bestselling author and journalist whose latest book, The White Devil’s Daughters, tells the story of the women who fought slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist. Her most recent book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Knopf), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a nonfiction finalist for the California Book Award. Her other books include The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty (Gotham Books, Penguin Random House), a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting, and Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure (Grove Atlantic).
She co-directs the Nonfiction/Memoir program at California’s Community of Writers and is a contributor to National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a juror for the Commonwealth Club’s California Book Awards, and will be a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in 2027. She has spoken at TEDx, Google, and Harvard University, and was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar.
She is currently at work on a book of narrative nonfiction that explores the world of polar exploration.
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