Freeman

Judith Freeman is the author of a collection of short stories, Family Attractions, four novels (The Chinchilla Farm, Set for Life, A Desert of Pure Feeling, and Red Water, named one of the best books of 2002 by The Los Angeles Times Book Review), and most recently The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved. She received the Western Heritage Literary Award in 1992 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 1996. In 2005, she was a visiting fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and publications. She is a past board member of PEN Center USA West, has taught at USC in the Master of Professional Writing program, and lives in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. photo: Anthony Hernandez