Author and Historian, "White Devil’s Daughters, The House of Mondavi, and Lost Kingdom"

Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her most recent book,  The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure. Her first book, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist, Siler is a longtime contributor and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on the BBC, CNBC, and CNN. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two sons.

During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. Julia examines this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped.  Accompanied by historical photos from the book, she'll explore the Marin settings and people in her nonfiction book.